Alice sews up fame as supermodel

Posted by mija on Oct 8, 2007 in News | 0 comments

SHE was slammed for being too thin, but Australia’s Next Top Model winner Alice Burdeu is having her cake and eating it too after being signed by major US agency Elite Model Management.

The willowy redhead was the star figure at the centre of a raging skinny debate throughout the Fox 8 series earlier this year, but Burdeu has been given the big fat thumbs up by the agency which manages the world’s top catwalkers – including supermodels Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell.

Her Australian agency Priscilla’s confirmed the signing and revealed the Vogue covergirl had attracted interest from five agencies during her meet-and-greet trip.

“They were all very interested in signing her but Alice felt the best about Elite and her career will be in fantastic hands there,” Priscilla Leighton-Clark told Confidential yesterday.

“It’s a testament to the kind of show Australia’s Next Top Model has become because Alice is of an international standard and she’s really proved that now – she’s amazing.”

The jetset life has taken off for Burdeu, who is due to head back to the US tomorrow to shoot a campaign for make-up guru Napoleon Perdis, one of the key prizes she collected for winning the Next Top Model crown.

She’ll then spend the next month commuting between Sydney and Manhattan before relocating permanently to the Big Apple, living in one of Elite’s famed “model condos” under the agency’s supervision.

The stellar signing should come as a huge confidence kick for the painfully shy Burdeu, who has openly struggled with poor self-image and insecurity throughout the TV series.