Stopped Making Sense

Former Christchurch model Jenna Sauers, 23, has revealed that she was the face behind feminist website Jezebel’s correspondent “Tatiana”, who acted as a mole during the 2008 New York Fashion Week. “She’s smart! She’s thin! And she’s beholden to no one,” the site had exclaimed. And, over the ensuing months, this pseudonymous insider developed a cult following with her explosive, brilliantly written accounts of what really happens to models in the fashion industry. Last week, though, “Tatania” finally revealed all and that she was done with the sneaking around and the furtive copy filing; done with modelling altogether, in fact. Sauers spent two years modelling for magazines such as Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour and InStyle, and her Jezebel posts left little doubt that this is a world that pledges (and, in some cases, delivers) so much, but is also governed by a moral compass so “screwed up”, as she puts it, it’s frightening. Sauers was a 2003 graduate of Rangi Ruru Girls’ College.