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I would consider it so I could put the money away for LO for later in life.

I would say yes to boden with a quickness! Bonus points if I could score some free clothes.

Only for Boden and only if they paid in clothes + money

I would say hells yes!

Yes, but I'd be very careful in how I presented it to my child - as in "We're going to help them take pictures of these clothes!", not "You are so gorgeous that they want you in their catalog." You know ?

For sure!

Yeah...if DS wanted to do it. I would probably let LO do it too.

Totally!! Especially if she got paid in clothes...

I'm meh about the idea. Dh says college fund!

Yes as long as it wasn't overwhelming LO.

@beaker: lol, true dat

Heck yeah!

Sure if they could get her comfortable to take a good picture lol

No. People tell me all the time my LO looks like a Gerber baby and could be a baby model. And when I laugh and say thanks, they are like "no, seriously. Seriously." I joke that if we lived in California we'd go for it, but there isn't a market in Montana! (Not to brag, I mean, kids got our DNA, I know those good looks don't last long past 5!! But he IS cute!)

But I feel really uncomfortable using him in any way he can't give consent to. I won't take him to political campaigns or rallies or use his picture for anything work related.

But, if it really came down to it, I might just for the money/clothes and to see what it was like! But just once!

@jedeve: i've thought the same thing for LO, but it's a LOT of work even living in CA. it's a full time job to bring these kids out to casting, etc. my SIL is a producer, so i half-jokingly said, so can we get LO into this or what and she said it's super intense.

i would do it if they came knocking, but i'm too lazy to bring her around!

@birdofafeather: yeah I wouldn't really do it in CA either! I don't see the appeal of spending all your time doing something your LO won't give a rip about. Does it pay well?

Sure! We just got contacted by Tea Collection and Wagon Jr. has been featured in some marketing materials for Uppa Baby. No pay, just some free and discounted products. They're a local company and recruited some local volunteer families for a photo shoot.

I just like it for the fun experience and possible free and/or discounted product!

Nah.
We've been approached a few times but it doesn't seem worth it to me. There's not that much money involved and at this point I'd have to take off work to bring her to gigs. If I was home with her and she expressed an interest if consider it, but it doesn't make sense for me to lose income for her to make a couple hundred bucks.
Also, I'm REALLY not interested in raising Amanda Bynes.

I think it would be fun to do one time! I've also heard that it's a lot of work/little money though.

So it wasn't a clothing line---but my little sister did a Cheetos print ad when she was about 8 (ish) and got paid $3000 for a 2 hour photo shoot, plus a 1 year supply of Cheetos and wonder bread, which used to be owned by Frito lay.

My mom wasn't thrilled with the year supply part---I remember it sitting in our garage and then mysteriously disappearing. I think she donated to a food pantry--she didn't allow much junk food in the house.

My parents put that $3000 in a couple of CDs and when my sister went to college, she used it to buy a used car (I think my parents kicked in half and her savings from the Ad paid the other half).