Bonnie's Barbie of the week...Shaquanta (elita)

Hi everyone i am model Shaquanta elita. with ( elita ) meaning ; one of a kind chooen one . Born July 23 in Brooklyn NY but raised in Greenville NC to Bobby and Parthenia Deloatch and a little sister to Fabian Deloatch . Starting at a young age i took a keen insterest in modeling after being entered into the Little Miss Greenville pageant at the age of six . Always watching fashion shows i would always walk down our hall way telling my mother i was on the runway . Looking up to Iman Abdulmajid and Naomi Campbell i bagan to be in many fashion shows and also hair shows. At twelve i was in a commercial for my hair salon that came on in Greenville NC and other local areas. After being in the commercial i really wanted to gain as much knowledge i could about modeling and wanted to learn whatever i needed to know so i could become the next icon , so i started to look for modeling schools that i could attend. Shortly after my search i attened the auditions for John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center where i then started my training to become a model .

I attended JC for three years starting at the age of 13 , after graducation from JC i then signed with Avanti Mangement which set up different shows to help us get known and get signed. Really happy about my first showcase i began to be faced with many things in life such as my father and my mother going there own way , that at a young age had a big pull on my life . Being that i was dealing with the pain i began to pull away from what i loved the most which was modeling . While trying to deal with the pain i was trying to find things that i could do to get my mind off of it and at the end of the day it all came back to modeling . I then started back trying to bulid my modeling career by being in many different shows and going to different casting calls. In 2008 i had the chance to become a model for Olan Mills Portrait Studio with my first photoshoot being for ECU . In 2008 i also bacame a member of a modeling troop called Fetish Ink* which allowed me to be in different shows and meet and be in a group with other wonderful models as well .

No i am not your avg. 5'9 model . . . i am a 5'4 model with the measurements 34 - 22 - 34 weighing 111 pounds and im proud and im going to cont. to keep going after what my passion is which to become the best model i can be , And I will be on the runway just watch and see . Right now in my career i am currently re-building my portfolio getting ready to travel different areas for casting call and etc. to get myself where i know God wants me to be with modeling . With everything that i have been blessed with and the things im about to be blessed with i know that with out God none of it was possible so i thank him daily for all the things that he is doing and has done in my life. Beside modeling i attended South Central High School in NC and i am the class of 2008 . All through out attending school i was very fashionable but in high school i was known to always have heels on and was voted most likely to be seen on the red carpet . After graduation i attended Pitt Community College then transferd to VA to cont. to education as a full time student studying For. Science . My goal after college is to be able to work in a big crime lab .

Someone asked me the question if i could redo somethings in my life would i and at first i said yes but now i feel like everything that i went through was to make me a better person and to get me where God wants me to be . So the answer to that question now would have to be no i wouldnt. I feel that if i cont. to trust God then i have nothing to worry about . . . all my dreams will come true . Even if i dont become the " Next Top Model " im still going to cont. to be in shows because i feel that if something is your passion then no matter what you are faced with you are going to cont. to express whatever your passion is . So sign or not signed i will always be " Model Shaquantaelita " ! Be blessed . = )

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