{"id":88228,"date":"2024-04-06T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T19:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/reacher-star-alan-ritchson-says-modeling-industry-is-legalized-sex-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T19:17:54","slug":"reacher-star-alan-ritchson-says-modeling-industry-is-legalized-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/reacher-star-alan-ritchson-says-modeling-industry-is-legalized-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Reacher&#8217; star Alan Ritchson says modeling industry is &#8216;legalized sex trafficking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The High Highs and Low Lows of Alan Ritchson <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f0aWAtkVS5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/f0aWAtkVS5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1775508598900343284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best known for his work on Amazon Prime\u2019s \u201cReacher,\u201d the 41-year-old Hollywood actor opened up about  his experience working in an industry in which, he claimed, &#8220;sexual abuse was the goal&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em\">There are very few redeeming qualities to working in [the modeling] industry. Let\u2019s be honest, it\u2019s like legalized sex trafficking,<\/span><\/b>&#8221; said Ritchson, who modeled for Abercrombie &amp; Fitch and various catalog projects. &#8220;<b>The industry is not regulated, and it\u2019s a widely known secret that if you\u2019re hired on a job, you\u2019re basically being passed off to a photographer to be trafficked. The number of times and situations where I was put in horrific environments where sexual abuse was the goal, and the paycheck that you were desperate for in order to survive was the carrot, I can\u2019t count on two hands. It was quite often.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alan revealed on Wednesday that he was sexually assaulted by a \u201cvery famous photographer\u201d during his modeling days, which led him to quit the industry altogether.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1775508598900343284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128148399.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Highs and Low Lows of Alan Ritchson https:\/\/t.co\/f0aWAtkVS5 \u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 3, 2024 Best known for his work on Amazon Prime\u2019s \u201cReacher,\u201d the 41-year-old Hollywood actor opened up about his experience working in an industry in which, he claimed, &#8220;sexual abuse was the goal&#8221; &#8220;There are very few redeeming qualities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}