What If I Stay Like This?

I was sure my modelling days were over

Suzanne Salloum, 38, Blacktown, NSW. Zigzagging in and out of the rows of modern, classic and modified cars, I was in awe. “This is incredible,” I gushed. It was 1999, and my older brother Albert, 14, had taken me to my first car show. I was a little revhead, with pictures of cars plastered all over my bedroom walls. I was also fascinated by the beautiful models standing beside the cars. I want to be like them, I thought longingly. Since the age of 10, I’d been fitted with an ugly bite plate to correct a 10mm overbite, and I’d been constantly picked on at school for how I looked. “There goes Bucky Beaver,” I’d hear kids sneer. Feeling self-conscious, I dressed like a tomboy, trying not to draw attention…

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