I'm going to go ahead and weigh in on this thread. Much of what needs to be said has been said by Distant Light, but I hope I can contribute meaningfully to the discussion as well.
The biggest issue with these women is access. Yes, "game" (good vibe, sociability, ability to carry a conversation with beautiful women without tripping over yourself, etc, etc) is important, but that is important in the pursuit of any woman. The challenge that distinguishes high end models from other attractive women is access, or the lack thereof.
These women, as Jariel noted, are not merely models in name only. They are distinguished by their ability to regularly obtain paid work. They earn a lot, but they work a lot as well. Fashion is not as glamourous as it seems - the industry crushes a lot of dreams, undercompensates a lot of people, and those few who do make it truly earn their longevity. These models are working out constantly, flying all across the world regularly, doing shoots at all manner of inconvenient times in the morning and events throughout the days, and so on, so forth. Their schedules can be crazy, irregular, and entirely less predictable than they probably would like.
This is what creates the access problem. These girls make time for close personal friends outside of the fashion world, as that time is valuable and limited. The rest of their time is spent with those within the fashion or celebrity world. When you talk about models at the VS level or close to it, you're starting to talk about girls who don't party or socialize in quite the way we're used to seeing. Because of their commitments, they are less often found in the open venues (your standard bars, clubs, run of the mill house parties, etc) regular guys can access and more often found in more exclusive gatherings or events frequented by a disproportionately high number of fashion industry folks and celebrities. Hence the access issue.
When it comes to dealing with this access problem, it obviously helps to have fame or wealth. These things are more likely to get you access, which is why a disproportionate number of the men who do date these women tend to have it. These girls tend to meet men via social circles, either through introduction or chance encounters in the same social settings. Celebrities and wealthy men obviously have an easier time getting into the exclusive events in which these models spend a disproportionate amount of their time, and are thus more easily able to break into their social circles - they meet these girls at events, or are introduced at them, maybe go to the exclusive private get togethers and parties these girls attend later (the ones that are invite only and spread by word of mouth within these social circles; these are events that average joe will likely never know about).
Obtaining regular access to women who are fashion models but not at the VS level or close to it is hard, but doable - Distant Light can show you that. Getting to that elite tier of legitimate, in demand, professional models at or close to VS level and
staying there is another story. Your odds are slim, because you'll need access, and that is hard to get without having special circumstances (fame, wealth, etc). These women are essentially celebrities, and average folks only rarely gain access to celebrities in a social setting.
Your best bet aside from getting rich or getting famous is via social circles. If you can work up to the point at which you are on very friendly terms with powerful "connecters", you stand a chance of bumping into these women somewhat regularly, and from there possibly integrating into one of their social circles. From there, maybe you'll get some luck depending on your game. Distant Light mentioned this, and I'd call it the most crucial point of emphasis in this thread - that's the best route for a normal guy to gain access to these women, or any other celebrity women: know the right people (those who are trusted by members of these exclusive social circles), and have them usher you in.
In short (TL;DR):
1. Network to gain access
2. Be social (read: have game)
Easier said than done, but there's the process in a nutshell for a regular guy.
Quote: (12-10-2014 12:18 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
The guys in the pics are married to them though - then you can be even fat and shorter, though all of them are multi-millionaires or billionaires, have high social status in their field & are quite Alpha, but I guess your goal is not to marry a Victoria's Secret model.
I never saw a high level model - who have all net worth in the 8 digits at least - being in a LTR with a man below their financial level. I saw beautiful women born into great wealth marry masculine and even poor Alphas, but not models who usually came from humble origins.
This is a bit inaccurate. Elite models with 7 or 8 figure annual incomes have been known to get with men WELL below their financial level. I'll provide examples below.
On top in this photo is Doutzen Kroes with her husband, Sunnery James. She is a VS Angel and one of the highest earning models on the planet (estimate income last year: $8 million). He is a DJ, and not a remarkably well known one at that. The duo he is a part of has merely 67,000 followers on twitter (compared to the 759,000 who follow her). She started dating him in 2009, when she was already a well established model and among the top 15 highest earners in the modeling world (estimated incomes by year: 2007 - $1.5 million, 2008 - $6 million, 2009 - $6 million, 2010 - $6 million, 2012 - $6.9 million, 2014 - $8 million). Sunnery James has never made anything close to what Doutzen has made during the time they have known each other. He's never had anywhere near the fame, and it is doubtful that he comes from a lot of money (Surinamese descendants in the Netherlands rarely do, and if he did its almost certainly not nearly as much as she makes). They are married, and she just had his second child.
Next (middle of the photo) is Candice Swanepoel. Her boyfriend is a Brazilian male model, Hermann Nicoli. He might come from some money (we can't be sure about his background, though odds are he was at least middle/upper middle class in Brazil), but chances are he doesn't come from enough to match the $3 million+ she's been making every year for many years now. She met him when she was 17 (just beginning to model) and he was 23; they've been in an LTR ever since. It is safe to say she has always been WAY above his financial level during their relationship.
Jasmine Tookes, who has walked in several VS shows in recent years and is a VS model, is dating a male model whom she almost certainly outearns (he makes around $265,000; she's almost certainly commanding much higher rates, as tends to be the case with female models relative to their male counterparts)
At the bottom of the photo is Lily Aldridge. Her husband is a somewhat well known musician so she doesn't make my point all that well, though odds are he's not bringing in the $2-3 million+ she pulls every year. What I am trying to say is that models will and often do date below their financial level, especially when the individual they're dating has the kind of occupation that gives them the "access" I mentioned above (ex: male models and DJs are popular choices).