As Sophie walks down the catwalk for the very first time in her young life, she thinks silently to herself, "Somebody's gonna DIE for this."
She can hear them all laughing back behind the curtain.
After Sophie is thoroughly humiliated they send out Paulo, the new boy.
Fresh meat, and they make the most of him.
Backstage they call him "Mr. T" and laugh until they wet themselves.
Paulo is not amused.
Neither is the designer, Mr. Sandpiper, whose fashions now smell of urine and heroin.
Later in the show, Sophie is on again.
"Damn them! Damn them all TO HELL!"
She is traumatized.
Linda is the next victim.
At first she tries to be a good sport, dancing and playing along as if it were funny.
But then they go too far.
Cruelly, they dress her as Pee Wee Herman and send her out into the street, telling her there is a photographer waiting to photograph her next to the water.
She is mistaken for a gay prostitute and arrested by the local police.
While in prison Linda hangs herself with her long stringy vest, which she never liked anyway.
But it is cheap and the strings break, leaving her with a scar.
If they were cruel to Linda and the others, it was nothing compared to what they did to poor Danska, the Russian beauty.
The dress was fine, but just as she was preparing to walk out onto the platform one of the girls cried out,
"Wait, let us fix your hair."
Oh, the inhumanity!
Another victim.
Salinas thought she had escaped them.
They had fussed with her hair and even placed a silly bow upon her head, but overall she thought the bathing suit was fine.
In all the excitement she failed to notice that they never gave her the bottoms, but only a tiny band which failed to cover her nicely shaved parts.
Karina is their next victim.
Dressed as a clown, she is sent out to be emotionally destroyed in front of all her friends and family, who flew to Rio from Romania just to see her in her very first show as a professional fashion model.
The model cruelty continues, with 2 Brazilian girls getting "Mickey Moused."
The Mousketeering continues with another young victim humiliated.
Then it gets out of hand.
5, 6, even 7 girls at a time, sent out with the Mouseketeer hair and sack dress to be mocked and ridiculed for the entertainment of the heroin queens in back.
The shame is epic, almost a holocaust in scope.
Even the photographers gasp in disbelief at the cruel audacity the veteran models have shown.
It is too much.
There is blood in the air.
A riot erupts backstage.
In desperation, two of the designer girls are sent out with the Toys'R'Us mascot to try and distract the crowd from the crashes and screams of 'Bitch' and 'Whore' which can be heard thundering from behind the curtain.
Finally, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bunchen comes out.
The crowd is appeased, having expected a few higher end models from the start and not really caring much about the young girls who are shedding their blood and clothes backstage.
But the battle rages on in the back.
Heroin needles fly.
Hair is pulled.
Faces are scratched.
Cootchies are kicked with high heeled feet.
In other words, it's your standard fashion show.
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