"The beauty of being bad, like not being afraid of getting old"

"You can easily give me the ugly," says Del Keens to reassure me while I'm looking for a word to describe its appearance without offenderlo- "interesting", "special", "unconventional."
"I'm just so," he adds.
"And I exploit my appearance in the same way it does Heidi Klum."
Del is 45 years old and in life makes the ugly model.
He was discovered some twenty years ago by a photographer while he was a courier in London.
Shortly after he signed for UGLY Models, an agency faces out of the ordinary, and has since worked with, among others, with brands like Diesel and Calvin Klein.
Del In 2006 he moved to Berlin, where he campaigned for the Sixt car rental company.
On that occasion he had been photographed in a golden costume, posing in front of a car, with the inscription: "On the model we have not, but at least the cost of the rental is irresistible."
In 2012 he then founded his own agency, Models Misfits, which gathers people outside of the traditional standards of beauty.
So far it has hired more than 600 people.
Obviously the inner beauty is more important than a wasp waist.
But our culture dictates that it is always the appearance of what is judged first.
I asked Del as being in the world without all the benefits that be only vaguely attractive entails.
This is Del.
All photos courtesy of Misfit Models.
VICE: Let's start from the scope love: you think things are more difficult for you than for others? Del Keens: Now I'm single, but I had several girlfriends.
Certainly when I was younger it was all the more difficult.
Teenagers are superficial.
But my appearance acts as a filter for idiots, which is good.
It forces me to look for interesting people and not those who judge a person based on its beauty.
As a child I was in the group of outsiders, those who went into BMX and found themselves to smoke on the back of the gym.
The difference is that I have never touched a cigarette.
Tinder Uses?
I tried it, it was not bad.
I had a little 'match and a few appointments.
A lot of people asked me if I was really that, or put my heart because he had already seen my face somewhere and was curious.
In those cases, however, the conversation did not last more than a few jokes.
Have you ever been told that you're ugly?
Of course, even worse.
I come from a simple family, my father was driving the truck and my mother was a housewife, and lived in a neighborhood in South London full of bullies.
But if I say, "You're ugly" I think to myself, "Oh yeah
Tell Me Something I Do not Know."
In general the word itself does not bother me, it depends mostly on the context in which it is used.
If you tell me in private then yes, there remain bad.
But being cast as "bad model" I have no problem.
I have a strange appearance.
Customers want me because my face will remain imprinted.
Do you think your life would be easier if I were cuter?
It would definitely be more boring.
A little 'time ago I switched from my old neighborhood and met some' of those bullies I told you about.
Many had never left there and had quite normal jobs.
I have a much more interesting life than their own even if you were not a model.
My appearance has forced me to commit much more.
You must be fun, develop a talent or something-or at least you have something to say.
Nice people in the conventional sense of the term are likely to be boring because they do not toil for nothing.
Do you ever hate people "conventionally beautiful" because they have easier life?
They have an easier time only in superficial things.
For everything else it takes self-confidence.
I've always had it.
Even as a kid in some ways I had less trouble than others, because I had to learn to seek security in things that went beyond my physical appearance.
You turn come when I see a beautiful woman on the street?
Taking the agent if I turn it on faces that have character and they might find a place in my agency.
But obviously approaching potential models on the street is not a strategy that works.
First, because I do not speak German very well.
And why many women do not believe in the agency's history and think it is only one who wants their numbers.
Would you date someone who is not conventionally attractive?
If I see a woman all in usually shoot the first thing I think about is how much time will have passed in the bathroom that morning.
But of course are susceptible to beauty, I like nice things.
Most of my girls were not pretty in the conventional sense of the term but were relatively good-looking.
It's hard to be a bad man or a bad woman?
I think for a woman is worse.
In our society women are still judged more harshly for the look, the clothes, the hair.
Often women are tougher than men in judging other women.
But it is not the end of the world as it may seem trivial, must not caring about what others think.
The ugly people can be vain?
I am not at all vain.
I do not care if I have holes in my pants or stains.
My only daily measure is the tuft to Elvis.
And like the other models, I'm tired of always having to talk about my appearance and my work.
If someone at the bar asks me what I do, I say I do the cleaning man.
It's easier to talk about interesting things that way.
There are times when you're glad to be ugly?
To know that I'm getting older does not frustrates me how it impacts other people, because both have never been much.
I think I can give less brakes, in my adventures, because I do not have to worry about how it will be my face the next day.
And the same goes for barroom brawls.

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