Bimbos Bite Back
Sun Herald
Saturday June 30, 1990
AUSTRALIAN models are still the flavour of the month in the fashion capitals that count. Witness the departure from our shores this week of Sydney girl Lenita Vangellis for Europe. She told The Diary that she is leaving Oz to pursue her career for two months in the world's major fashion capitals and offered this parting shot for people who still think the catwalk is the sole domain of bimbos, airheads and Barbie Doll intellectuals.
"I've combined my modelling career with raising my four-year-old son James John," Lenita told The Diary, "and I've also put down a three month stint on Neighbours. People in Australia see us as rather one dimensional people with no interests in life other than being animated clothes horses, which is why I'm going to Europe for the northern summer.
"They have more respect for the work we do and don't necessarily think of us as idiots. Rome, Paris, London and Milan give me the sort of work I crave and the chance to see the world with my son. What other line of work would give us so many opportunities?
A rhetorical question, surely, but Greek-born Lenita makes her point with achievements rather than polemics. When she returns from Europe she will begin studying law at the University of Sydney to help her graduate to a new career. She has also recorded a couple of singing tracks, in case her appearances in Neighbours spark interest in the UK for another warbling cast member of the long-running soapie.
To back up her claims that models are not all intellectual and emotional midgets, a selection got together last Saturday night to organise a Bimbos Bite Back party at Bobby McGees restaurant at Darling Harbour.
Around 200 eligible bachelors (and not so eligible married types off the leash for the night) crammed the restaurant for the party, getting down and boogying with the aforesaid models. Word is they had a ball (no pun intended), and successfully poked their collective tongues out at the doubters who said the girls couldn't organise hangover in a brewery.
© 1990 Sun Herald
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