Ray
Agencies
Mother Agency (MA): NEXT CANADA
new york: ford Models
Paris: oui management
Milan: Fabbrica Milano Management
London: storm Management
Barcelona: Ford Models Barcelona
Hamburg: A Management
Los Angeles: FOrd Models LA
Answers to Q&A
Why did you become a model?
My dream as a kid had always been to be an actress. Of course I changed my mind daily. Sometimes I wanted to be a psychologist, sometimes a cop, but the fantasy dream was being in movies. Being a young tall teenager, I got stopped many times in the streets or subway in Montreal by modelling scouts who gave me their business card, which I went home with and threw out thinking it was a scam. I took school very seriously and didn’t take the time to do some research on these modelling scouts. I knew a few top models, but never thought it was a job or that there was a way for young girls to make their way into that industry. One day I got a card by a modelling scout on my commute home from a soccer practice, did some research, and a whole world of possibilities opened up to me. I felt at the time that modelling was similar to acting, or at least a good first step, and also found out how much travelling and alone time models get. So I met with agencies.
What makes you special?
I’m not sure what makes me special as a person to others, but what makes me feel special within myself is the fun I have on my own in my head and in the outside world. My first goal in life is to have fun and if it’s not fun then it’s dumb. I don’t know how to be anyone else but myself, and it might not work for some and I don’t mind that at all. I find that I have a lot of contrasting qualities that work to my advantage - like being extremely sensitive yet tough and grounded. I like containing multitudes of layers, some that I don’t even understand myself.
What are you passionate about?
Cinema, yoga, travelling, how peoples mind’s work and why people act the way they do, running, books, pickles, and people I look up to as heroes.
What’s your most prized possession and why?
Probably all my journals I’ve written in and kept since I started modelling. They can be hard to reread so I keep them tucked away for now. Throughout my whole modelling career thus far, I have journaled as a way to cope with the loneliness spent on airplanes, at airports, in hotel rooms. All of my highest times and lowest times are written down for me to revisit later in life.
When you are not modelling, what do you do on your day off?
Do yoga, go on a run till it feels insufferable, go to the cinema, film auditions for acting roles, bake, read a book, and stare at a wall to think.