What Alexa Chung really does in life.

People are always in mass confusion as to what Alexa Chung does - she sits front row for numerous high-end shows at fashion week,appears on the covers of Magazines like Elle and Harpers Bazaar, has photographs in magazines for her sense of style and even hosts shows sometimes(+ she was dating Alex Turner for 4 years).
People thus conveniently come to a conclusion that she has no real job - and she takes what she's given.

Alexa on the cover of Harper's Bazaar UK, May 2009.

I used to think the very same way, well - for a while. Recently, I was compelled to think otherwise.

Alexa Chung got school done with to pursue modelling as a career when she was scouted by Storm Model Management - and she was quite successful - starring in a few music videos,working with companies like Urban Outfitters and Sony Ericsson, and even had a reality TV gig. However, 4 years down the line she quit modelling to begin curation and journalism of a kind. Modelling isn't the most fabulous career to keep - it consists of constant criticism from each end, being under pressure to stick to a number on the weighing machine,eating disorders, then there's the constant insecurity and competition to top it off with. 

In 2006, she ended up becoming a TV personality; presenting and hosting shows and events for various channels - making appearances in the modelling world every now and then. Side by side , around 2007 - she would write a monthly column for Company - a British women's magazine and also wrote a weekly newspaper column for Britain's The Independent from November 2008 to June 2009. 

She also ended up releasing a book called "It" in 2005. In 2009 she became a  contributing editor for British Vogue,

The cover of "It" by Alexa Chung.

So she's been juggling being a Television Presenter, Model, Editor, Journalist and Author for some time now. See, that's where I come to think differently about her - I relate to her instantly because sometimes, there's so much I'd like to do in the world - but it's terrible that I'm supposed to pick just one thing to do. Alexa just, chose to do more with her life instead of sticking to her previous decisions. 

Alexa talking jibberish whilst posing for an editorial

I think to myself what I'd want to do with my life - and it's a complete rubik's cube. There's so much to do - so much. I see my life panning out the same way - I'll be doing different things and my job descriptions will change drastically - it's really not a bad thing to do; to learn and to expereince more.

On the flip-side, I do agree entirely with Barbara Ellen's review on "It" - Alexa's book .I do also agree she can be quite blatantly stupid on occasion and I dislike that she fakes being 'naturally skinny' - I once read an account of someone who worked with her for a day : and all she was seen eating was half an apple and a diet coke. Screw being "naturally skinny" - bottomline is, she's not healthy and it's  very obvious. 

Not "naturally skinny"

The instagram picture that caused controversy for how skinny her legs appeared.

But I genuinely feel like she's living the dream - career wise. She gives zero hoots about having one profession and does what she pleases - when she pleases. She might be the jack of all trades and master of none, but then again - she gets to experience,learn and absorb from all of it *Though it seems that all she's been doing lately is attending fancy parties*.

 I think everyone would kill for a slice of a that life.