{"id":588686,"date":"2025-11-23T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:52:16","slug":"midlife-motherhood-and-me-the-every-day-life-of-supermodel-erin-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588686\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlife, motherhood and me: the every day life of supermodel Erin O\u2019Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">O\u2019Connor became famous for her gameness and bravery as a model. During an Alexander McQueen show, she emerged into an \u201casylum\u201d in a dress made of razor clams that cut her skin. Her father, in the audience, wept. \u201cAnything that was deemed terrifying to another model was absolutely reassuring for me,\u201d she told me. \u201cBut walking into a room, doing a casting, exchanging small talk, was nothing short of terrifying.\u201d The photoshoots were where she found herself. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be able to convey the feeling, truly, that excites me more than being held in a harness, 30ft in the air, being struck by imaginary lightning. Because there comes this brilliant moment for me where I\u2019m literally untouchable. Nobody can tell me off. Nobody can tell me I got it wrong. Nobody can tell me it\u2019s not good enough. And so for this very timid, still introverted person who I\u00a0am, it\u2019s like\u2026 the weekend.\u201d She will \u201calways be addicted to that,\u201d she went on. Though it may have been detrimental in her personal life, causing anxiety and exhaustion, it was the \u201cmasking\u201d \u2013 the performing and pretending \u2013 she has come to realise, that made her a supermodel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Connor became famous for her gameness and bravery as a model. During an Alexander McQueen show, she emerged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,2584,388,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fashion","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115598874699996279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}