Neighbours star turns model for Target collection
Neighbours actress Sharon Johal says the fashion industry has changed for the better since she was last in it, and is more accepting and diverse.
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Neighbours star Sharon Johal has returned to modelling.
The actor put herself through law and commerce studies at university by modelling before landing her job on the TV soap.
“I love fashion as well as my craft of acting,” Johal told Confidential. “I don’t identify myself as a model per se. I am just a human being wearing clothes with an energy and personality.”
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Johal, who plays Dipi Rebecchi on TV soap Neighbours, is the new face of fashion label Mossimo, which is sold exclusively at Target.
“There’s a really great message,” she said. “The collection is so great for women of all sizes.
Obviously the modelling industry can be so problematic in many different ways. I really love seeing that now it has changed since I was doing it. It has changed in the sense that lots of different looks are accepted, there is lots of diversity, transgender models, all of that sort of stuff.”
Clearly a natural in front of the camera, still or moving, Johal looks at modelling the same was as she does acting.
“I’m trying to produce a result, which is what I do with acting as well, whether it’s trying to garner an emotion or get viewers to feel a certain way, take them on my journey,” she explained. “It is a similar thing with modelling where I am trying to showcase the clothes, but obviously show that I am comfortable and confident in it. I do that with my face and how it looks and whatnot. But yes, I kind of see it as an acting job, the same thing when I was a lawyer as well.”
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