Megan Morat, shares her story of how she landed on the famous magazine’s glossy pages.
Megan Morat, 21, was living out the college dream in 2008. She was a student at Towson University majoring in digital art and design with big dreams of working for a fashion magazine. Little did she know she would appear in one of those same magazines only months later.
Megan was reading Seventeen magazine when she saw a contest to find the girl with the “Best-Tress” (i.e. Best Hair). Not thinking too much of it, she sent in photos from a photo shoot.
Months later, in 2009, she was contacted by Seventeen magazine with great news. She had won the contest and would be featured in the magazine. Seventeen sent her to a local photographer to get professional photos taken.
When the issue hit newsstands, Megan was soon the talk of the town.
“Everyone wanted a copy,” Megan said. “My friends and family all thought it was really neat. Everyone was very positive and happy for me.”
But Megan hasn’t let her brush with fame get to her head. In fact, she remains fairly coy while discussing her experience in Seventeen, but when she mentions an internship this past summer in San Francisco, her face lights up.
“It was the best experience of my life,” Megan says. “I loved the people, the company, the city, I really loved everything about it. I would go back in a heartbeat.”
Megan interned at a granola bar company, 18 Rabbits. There she worked on creating graphics, postcards, and doing demonstrations at Whole Foods.
Megan will be graduating in the fall and will be free to conquer all her big girl dreams. In the meantime, she keeps busy hanging out with friends, lifting weights, traveling, maintaining a healthy living blog, and a youtube channel which focuses on health & beauty advice.
She says that her experience with Seventeen magazine was fun, but hasn’t done any professional modeling since.
“I was really cool.”