Agent Rios?
Name: Tanya Rios Home: Bayside Age: 20 Height: 5’ 4″ Weight: 128 lbs Stats: 32-22-31 The next time you meet Tanya Rios, she may be Agent Rios. The 20-year-old from Bayside, a cashier in the gift shop at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, has her eyes on joining the FBI. Tanya graduated from Benjamin Cardozo […]
Jill Sheehan, Program Coordinator, The Inner You
I’m Jillian Sheehan, Program Coordinator for The Inner You Program on Eating Disorders and Self-Esteem. I can honestly say that The Inner You has been the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. It is a place unlike any other. Our goals are to educate people about the realities of eating […]
A Mini-Filet
Name: Olivia Mignone Home: Bayside Age: 20 Height 5’1″ Weight: 100 Stats: 34-24-34 When she was just a freshman in High School, Olivia Mignone had already known for years that she wanted to be a model. She practiced her strut, took good care of herself and was ready for the runway. Except that she was […]
My Michelle
Michelle Jia Home: Fresh Meadows Age: 17 Height: 5’ 2-1/2” Weight: 105 Stats: 32-25-32 For Michelle Jia, modeling has been a great way to boost her self-confidence and have a great time. Sure, her real dreams may lay with accounting – yes, that is her dream job, but in the meantime, thanks to the folks […]
Darling Denise
Denise Camacho Home: Flushing Age: 18 Height: 5’ 2” Weight: 108 Stats: 31-28-34 Denise Camacho hasn’t been modeling for long but she’s learned life lessons that take other models years to learn. From spending time at batting cages in Flushing with her brother to hanging out with friends on Steinway Street in Astoria, Camacho has […]
Just Julia
Julia Gorbach Home: Bayside Age: 20 Height: 5’3″ Weight: 115 lbs Stats: 34-27-37 The petite beauty hails from the Ukraine, but she’s happy to call New York home. She’s lived in Queens and two other boroughs, and got help launching her career thanks to the folks at Bayside’s Shortstack Modeling. Though she keeps herself busy […]
Gabby Rising
Gabriella Neglia Home: Whitestone Age: 20 Height: 5’0″ Weight: 100 lbs Stats: 30-25-31 It’s not often we interview a model seemingly too busy to… well… model, but given her schedule, we’re surprised Gabriella Neglia even had time to take our phone call. The Queensborough Community College student joined the ranks of Bayside’s Shortstack Models, and […]
Super Cute Shortstack Model Crochets in Free Time
by Kathryn on July 11, 2011 Gabriella Neglia is a 20-year-old model and the Assistant Director of Shortstack, a “teen driven fashion and modeling program”. This organization is designed to allow girls who are shorter than models are “supposed to be” to participate in charitable fashion events as models. When I was ten years old, […]
Making It
Rukeyah Jones Home: Jamaica Age: 19 Height: 5’3″ Weight: 100 lbs Stats: 31-27-35 If you asked Rukeyah Jones what she wanted to do with her life eight months ago, being a model would have never made the list. Fast-forward to today and Rukeyah is a Shortstack Model, a modeling organization for those 5-foot-7 and shorter. […]
Featured Youth : Katerina Theophanous
Katerina (Nina) has been a volunteer with WOO since 2005 when we barely had a heartbeat. Nina’s first event in those early years was our annual drive for the homeless that impacted shelters across New York City. Afterward, Nina became a staple we could count on in events like our Teens to Teens HIV Conference, […]