Why Model Stephanie Fuertes Started Taking Her Career Seriously

Mohamed “MB Salone” Barrie
2 min readFeb 9, 2021

Stephanie Fuertes, born on May 7, 1996 in Bronx, NY is a fitness coach & fashion model. Stephanie has been obsessed with Victoria’s Secret models since a young age. She would cut pictures out of magazines, make collages out of them and post the collage all over her wall and even had printed pictures posted in her closet. Being a model is what Stephanie has been manifesting for a long time. She say’s that her boyfriend inspired her to really take action and establish her aspiration.

On December 12, 2020 she walked her first runway with the honors of UTG (Ultimate Talent Global). She was proud of herself and in that moment her life was a dream come true.

In 2021 she is planning on performing on multiple runway shows, fashion shoots as well as editorial photoshoots. She moved to Miami to gain exposure and her plans is to travel to Los Angeles and New York to further her career this year.

This pandemic made Stephanie realize how much she really wanted to take becoming a model seriously. She began to realize how much she abhorred her day job, school and all the other things that she hated. All of the things that she was doing was distracting her from what she truly wanted to do. She made a plan B but ceased from creating that backup plan because she knew that if she had one then it meant that she didn’t believe in herself, so that’s when she dedicated herself to her true passion.

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