For the past seven weeks we have been bringing you the story of Ali Turner, courtesy of her mother Patty (tFS user modelmom). Ali's journal has chronicled the beginning of her modeling career in Paris at 15 years old (which was in 2002).

This segment of 'Becoming a Model' is from the perspective of Patty Turner, detailing Ali's experiences as a young model in New York City.

Read Part 1 here,  Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, and Part 8 here.

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Wednesday Jan.8th

Ali told me that her friend Asta was sick today. I went back to the model apartment and took her temperature and it was 101 degrees F. I think it’s just a cold, so I went and picked up some medicine and ingredients to make vegetable soup.

We ate and since it was really late I spent the night in the other bunk in Ali’s room. I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be a good day for Ali.

Thursday Jan.9th

Ali’s castings today were for Gap, Bloomingdales, Nylon Magazine, Neiman Marcus and Teen Vogue again. We missed two of her castings and her New Faces agent kept calling to ask where we were.  Then she said, “Just forget it!” and I felt like a two year old in trouble.

Ali and I were still laughing at this point and I kept asking her, “Do you think we are going to have a 'time out’ when we get back to the agency?"

When we did arrive back at Ford the receptionist ushered us into what we called the ‘quiet room’. Ali’s agent came in and was extremely nice??? She said maybe she was being too hard on us and she had some good news for Ali. She booked the Nylon Magazine job and was confirmed for Teen Vogue. Things are looking up.