Shut up and Smile

Award winning investigative author Ian Halperin went undercover as a model himself in New York and South Beach and has found the never told story behind-the-story about the outwardly glamorous supermodel industry. He traces the rise of many well-known supermodels including Cheryl Tiegs, Claudia Schiller, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Kirsty Hume, and the controversial obstacles that they have faced along the way. Halperin interviewed over 200 models, their close business and personal associates, and people in the fashion industry to get the inside story. He reveals how they are often misled by their handlers into a world of drugs, prostitution, violence, murder, and never-ending, messy affairs. Halperin's probe exposes a disturbing pattern in which young women and men prove ill-equipped to handle their dizzying ascension to stardom at such a young age and eventually wind up broke and outcast.