Well, metaphorically speaking.

Jodie Smith in her own words.
I’m the girl in this equation, and the boy is Los Angeles [though I fully intend on taking it by the horns and humping it into submission if it doesn't concede with me asking nicely]. Having met me, you probably know that I’m English. I was born in Peterborough, England and came to the States in the late 90’s because my parents split up. My mum has since remarried, and my dad has two kids in the UK (Translation, I have a shit ton of siblings, Brady Bunch style. Except the whole part about singing songs and living in the same house.

I went to university in Pittsburgh (uofpitt) and studied finance, because I thought it was the thing to do… well, it wasn’t. Because after I finished with a finance degree and got a job in corporate lending, I hated my life and my soul was slowly dying (yes, it was that dramatic. I chronicle this extensively in my blog). I guess I looked around and felt like I was surrounded by ordinary people. I didn’t want to be ordinary; to have an ordinary job, marry an ordinary man, have ordinary children, live in an ordinary house, and grow to resent everyone in my ordinary life because I felt I had some unfulfilled dream.

So I quit my job and I moved out here (Los Angeles). To model. To live, as opposed to exist. To get Los angeles, New York, London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, the world to love me. Or something like that. I still figured now that the regret of “shoulda coulda woulda” is way worse than being broke, being hungry, or trying and failing miserably. So that’s my story so far!

I also went to Africa and did a documentary on malaria– [When The Night Comes]. Was the most incredible thing I’ve ever done. This is a teaser trailer. Go to the site and check out the trailer!