Dark side of being a model

Pretty Girls, Risky Business: A Peek at Modeling's Dark Side

Beautiful teenage girl comes to the big city. After a few months of picturesque, laugh-about-it-later poverty in a fourth-floor walk-up, she gets her break. Bookings follow, she gets her own place in a chic loft downtown, meets a banker, and the two live happily ever after.

That's the modeling dream -- to the public and to the young girls themselves. The reality is much less pretty.

Watch the full story as "Primetime Nightline" goes behind the scenes of the modeling business in the "Celebrity Secrets" special, "A Model Life," airing Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 10 p/9c on ABC.

"The impression is this smooth, beautiful, dream-like experience for everyone, you know? And it's not that at all. A lot of people don't like to talk about the negative," said aspiring model Ehren Dorsey.

Like most new arrivals, Dorsey is beautiful and broke. She lives in a bare-bones "model apartment" with several other girls, whose names and faces change all the time, as models come in and out of New York City vying for modeling jobs. They share twin beds -- and a dream.

Simone Starr Busted On Drug Charges

Simon Farrow Captured - Video link

Swimsuit Model Simone Starr Accused of Heading International Drug Ring Captured

The international swimsuit model accused of being the mastermind of a worldwide drug ring run out of a Hollywood apartment has been arrested in Australia after skipping out on bail over a month ago.

Simone Farrow, who was once the face of the Ed Hardy brand of bikinis, used 19 different aliases to ship methamphetamine around the world by FedEx and even the postal service, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency and Australian police.