| "They assume I’ll be like a load of other models and get addicted to drugs." | | Tonileigh Emery |
Tonileigh's mum, Jane Emery, nominated her for the Nut’s magazine "Babe ballet" last year, in which Toni competed against a few others in a readers' vote to win a professional modelling shoot. She won the Ballet and Toni’s modelling career seems to have taken off in exactly the right direction as she was successful in being chosen as a Top 100 High Street Honey by FHM Mag. She told me about how it all came about.... and just for a little added-something she gave me a photography/modelling lesson! Attention“I like the attention I get from it all; I love the idea that blokes are looking at me” she told me. “When you think a lot of people thought I’d be pregnant and addicted to drugs at 15 by the background I grew up in, I think I've done very well!” Obviously Tonileigh is the picture of health and sense, and is doing well for herself earning a living as a receptionist whilst continuing to launch her modelling career. “My mum was really the driving force behind my success. She entered my picture whenever she saw a competition being run for young models” Toni said. “It’s really exciting to be in the top 100, it’s fun. The fact that I get the chance is amazing… because (she laughs) ...that picture is rubbish!!” I asked Toni if her mum found it uncomfortable to think that men all over the country were looking at Toni’s pictures. Toni told me “My mum lives the same philosophy and me. I enjoy it and they can look but they can’t touch.” ChildhoodToni went to Meir Primary in Stoke on Trent and then Thomas Alleynes High School. After she left school she wanted to become a model and, as one of the biggest things in a young girl's life are her friends she looked to them for encouragement, but some of them didn’t really take to the idea. “Some of my friends were quite cool about the idea, they loved it - but some thought it was a phase and a bad idea. They assumed I’ll be like a load of other models and get addicted to drugs. Or something along those lines.” Being only 19 years old Toni is still learning about the modelling but she could still teach us a thing or two on how to show off that perfect figure. “I exercise at the gym 3 times a week and I make sure I know what I’m eating. I wouldn’t eat anything that’s unhealthy.” I also wanted to know what Toni’s ambitions were. I was surprised to here that modelling was not her life aspiration. “I want to become a TV presenter in an ideal world, and I’d like to do some acting. I just want a happy lifestyle and I want to be able to buy my mum whatever she wants.” With Tonileigh’s stunning looks, she has a lot going for her in her chosen career. | 
