Luma Grothe has been modelling for 4 years but hit her stride in 2013 at the S\/S 2014 shows where she walked for The Row, Burberry, Dsquared2, and others.<\/p>\n
The smoldering Brazillian of German, Japanese, and African descent spoke to WWD about her childhood in Brazil, learning English, and her post-modelling dreams.<\/p>\n
Here are our highlights:<\/p>\n
WWD: How did you start modeling?
\nLuma Grothe: My best friend was being really annoying about this modeling competition in the south of Brazil. He was like, \u2018You\u2019re superskinny, just go there. You\u2019re gonna win it.\u2019 I didn\u2019t even wanna go. I was studying and doing well in school. I was 16 at the time. I guess he convinced me to go, and it was good. I didn\u2019t win, but people saw me there and then somehow I got signed with this agency. I started modeling, and it was going so well that I had to stop school. So I still have one year to finish. I\u2019ll go back and finish, definitely.<\/p>\n
WWD: What was it like growing up in Brazil?
\nL.G.: I have a brother and sister who are older than me. Growing up with them was so much fun. Brazil is growing now, but before, we didn\u2019t have a lot of technology so [all we had] were our jokes \u2014 we were always all outside, running around, getting dirty. It was really healthy and nice growing up there. I\u2019m very close with my family. I miss them all the time.<\/p>\n
WWD: But you moved to London for work when you were 16, right?
\nL.G.: I went to London when I was 16-and-a-half for work, and I didn\u2019t speak any English. It was embarrassing. It was hard. My bookers, they said if I wanted to stay in London I had to learn. I had to watch a lot of [English] TV and ask my friends, \u201cWhat does this mean? What does that mean?\u201d I made so many friends in London and they were from Russia, Poland, everywhere in Europe \u2014 I got different accents from them.<\/p>\n
WWD: You\u2019ve been modeling for about four years now. Has there ever been a moment where you felt like you\u2019d made it?
\nL.G.: I think that modeling is \u2014 you never know you\u2019re ready. You just never know. You just go with the flow. My clients always called me back to work again with them, and I was very happy about that. I definitely take it seriously as a career. I\u2019m a very creative person, though \u2014 I like to do other stuff as well. I want to keep studying. I like making videos. I would love to be behind the scenes of cinema in the future, as a director or producer or something like that. I just really love it.<\/p>\n
WWD: What do you think you\u2019ve gained the most from all of your modeling experience?
\nL.G.: It\u2019s almost like a college of life. You learn how to live. You learn everything, how to be by yourself. You don\u2019t have your parents doing things for you. You become an adult in one day. I remember the first time I went to the supermarket by myself to buy my food, and I remember I was crying. I was like, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to buy! I had never done this before. You go from being taken care of to taking care of yourself.<\/p>\n
WWD: What are some of your other goals?
\nL.G.: So many. I definitely dream about building my own house somewhere \u2014 like maybe Long Island or somewhere more near nature. Designing it the way I want it \u2014 this is one of my goals. And I want to travel places that I haven\u2019t been yet. I had two passports full of stamps and I had to switch passports and get a new one. Before that I [hadn\u2019t really traveled,] I was just in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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