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“I dealt with so much f—g harassment and so much creepiness,” Sandoval revealed on the podcast,Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino.“In my experience, 15 f—g years of experience, in every major market — Chicago, L.A., New York, Miami — at 10 agencies across the U.S., with [female models], they were always paid more, treated far better. If they were young, they had a parent with them. They make more, they’re treated better, they’re put way more on a pedestal. And I don’t disagree with that.”
But what he said he took issue with were the ways male models were treated. “The girl would get a dressing room and a robe if she was in a bathing suit and lingerie. And a guy would have to change naked next to the clothing rack. This was standard for a shoot. Even runway shows… the guys were like, ‘You need to change next to a clothing rack.’ The stylists is like, watching you change buck naked. ‘Let me adjust that underwear.'”
He witnessed bullying to those who attempted to change in privacy. “Guys had no problem being like, pulling rank. If I wanted to go change in the bathroom they would scuff and laugh.”
When asked if there were ever “fondling situations” between models and photographers, he responded, “for sure” noting that some photographers would only work with new, naive models.
“But the girls were always [taken care of]. ‘Cause think about it, if you’re a male photographer and it gets out that a girl felt uncomfortable or a girl felt a certain way, it’s a huge deal. But if a guy, it’s like, ‘Deal with it. You’re a male model. This is what it is. This is what it takes.’ It was just like a normal f—g thing.”
Sandoval said he’s worked some of the photographers who was disgraced after the #MeToo movement began.
And if it wasn’t for his modeling days he may have never met fellow co-star Jax Taylor and the rest of the Pump Rules crew.
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source: people.com
