About The X Factor: Confessions of a Naive Model
It takes three mistakes to be swallowed up and spat out by
the fashion industry.
You trust the wrong people. You think you know
everything there is to know about life. You take drugs.
The almost
18-year-old Maja is a regular high-school kid, who at the threshold of
adulthood thinks she knows everything there is to know about life. As she
enters the world of fashion modeling she gets completely enchanted.
However, the more her career thrives she’s less able to see
the danger lurking around fashion industry. Maja starts falling in a
downward spiral of drug addiction and is torn between the tempting dream of
becoming a world famous model and the horrendous thought of destroying her body
beyond the point of no salvation.
At a yacht party Maja gets drugged, violently raped by
multiple men and tossed overboard. She’s found the next day. Barely alive. Only
a shade of her former self, in a gray space between life and death, she
realises the fashion industry sucked everything out of her – except one thing –
the will to live.
Maja wants to be her old self again. Ironically, it means
losing the only thing that made her special. She has to give up on her hidden X
Factor.
The author, Ivan
Sivec, about The X Factor: Confessions of a Naive Model
This year I’ve actually come out with my first English psychological young adult novel called The X Factor: Confession of a Naïve Model.
I wrote this novel 2001 based on a true story of two former teen models that were willing to share their painful stories with me. Girls like Maja have to pay a high price to be part of this seemingly attractive but in fact very cruel world.
Praise from
amazon.com
The deception is what makes the book unique, a glimpse of the horrific ordeals young models go through on their way up in modelling world.... I loved X Factor for many reasons, but mainly for Maja's strength to stand up to what she believes to be right.
- Ailyn Koay
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