"I came home and didn't even have my own room to cry quietly. I wanted to bury myself in the ground" Precisely when Sofia Mechetner decided to give a second chance to the fashion world that she took by storm a decade ago, the war broke out. Although she managed to take part in desirable campaigns, she was also fired from a job just because she was Israeli, while receiving rude comments from people in the industry.
Now, one of Israel's successful models explains why she took a long hiatus, what broke her heart and why her mother still chooses to work in cleaning. 4 View gallery ( Photo: Tal Shahar ) Ten years after her meteoric rise in the fashion world - a 14-year-old girl from Holon who just happened to be in the area and was put on the Dior runway show in Paris in a sheer white dress - Sofia Mechetner, in a more mature and conscious version of herself, returns to pose in front of the camera. At the age of 24, after three dark years that included a heartbreak, loneliness and emotional eating, she flew for a week to pose for Karl Lagerfeld in New York and Abercrombie & Fitch in London.
Did it happen amid the war? "Just before the war, I caught my agent, who had already given up on me, and told her that I wanted to return," she says. "It was the first time in my life that I wanted to model, I probably had to gain weight and get comments like 'you don't deliver the goods' to understand how much I missed and wanted it. The agent started sending my latest photos to clients, but O.