Terri, I have had close contact with many men and women in the modeling industry. There is a lot more to being a professional model that what you look like. My granddaughter has done much posing for the camera because she is a rock entertainer and has done a spread for Teen Vogue and it was a hard day's work to produce a few pics. The camera loves her but it took seven hours to get the picture they wanted and those hot lights are no fun at all. She also did a cover for Time Out NY Kids and that was a day to get four pics that suited their purposes. She was only eleven at the time and it was a chore being treated like an object. She was asked to model for products but she said no thanks despite the big money it would have involved. She is a musician (drummer and guitarist for a touring band) and loves to have people take photos of her but not under hot lights. To get work you either have to have name recognition as she does or you have to sell yourself to an agency which takes, for a start, a professional portfolio of you in every conceivable pose and costume plus good head shots. The cost for a good folio is $1000 not including wardrobe. Plus the cost for head shots with a bio to leave with prospective agents, clients and others who may be able to promote you. Also, you have to choose a field of modeling according to your best features. An actress I know made a living being a hand a foot model before she made it big as a soap star. She continued that work anonymously and made thousands of dollars a year for a few days work. Another young actress got herself scammed into posing nude and destroyed her reputation when the pictures were sold by the photographer to a sleazy skin magazine and I don't mean Playboy! I helped her find an attorney who got the thing cancelled ... but too late! You don't have to be perfect to be a model but you do have to fit what the people paying the fees want. They want different looks for different projects. Clothes models are a type. If you look carefully at the ads in newspapers, they all look almost identical in body type and poses. Sometimes, when you look closely, three or four of the pictures ARE the same person. They use kids, young adults and somewhat older adults based on product. A regular model is very tall and slim because the clothes look best on a body that is a coat hangar. Short models are not in demand and short in that industry is anyone under 5'7" They vary ethnic types nowadays because customers tend to be all kinds of people. Runway modeling is a different game. They pick young veterans who can sell clothes with their bodies so personality comes more into play. Photo models just do what the photographer tells them to do. Work at home? What skills do you have? Work isn't based on desire; it is based on proven abilities. If it is commission work, you can work all day and make nothing. To get a salary at home, you have to have a skill they want. Give more details about you and them maybe the members here can help you narrow down the choices. Good luck.