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"  Martha Hunt&amp;#039;s story is that of a small-town girl who made it after winning a local modeling competition\u2014and then headed straight for New York. Although she&amp;#039;s made it big in the Big City, she hasn&amp;#039;t lost her Southern charm. When I met her at the enchanting House of Wonder cafe in Brooklyn, she was one day away from being cast in the Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret Fashion Show for the first time\u2014possibly the biggest indicator today of a rising star. How did you get into modeling? It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That&amp;#039;s when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG. What&amp;#039;s your workout routine like? I go to Brooklyn Bodyburn, it&amp;#039;s similar to SLT (Strengthen Lengthen Tone). You use a megaformer machine, similar to a reformer machine in Pilates\u2014there&amp;#039;s two platforms and a moving carriage between them with a bunch of different resistance springs that you change. So, you&amp;#039;re holding yourself up the whole time and switching the resistance. It&amp;#039;s amazing and I love that it&amp;#039;s close to where I live\u2014I used to spend so much going in and out of the city to workout. Now that it&amp;#039;s here I just ride my bike there, do the class, and I&amp;#039;m done. Will you be walking in the Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret Fashion Show? We&amp;#039;ll see. I don&amp;#039;t want to say anything cause I have the casting tomorrow. I started working with them right after the show last year. So, now it&amp;#039;ll be potentially my first time doing it. Ed Note: The next day Hunt received confirmation for the show Have you amped up your fitness routine for the casting? I&amp;#039;ve been working with them a lot on their lingerie catalog, so I&amp;#039;ve already been cranking up the workouts. But I also don&amp;#039;t want to overdo it because there&amp;#039;s only so much you can do\u2014you don&amp;#039;t want to get too thin. You have to have a balance. So, I am working out everyday, and I don&amp;#039;t do too much cardio. Since I started working with them I&amp;#039;ve realized they do want their models to have curves and support that. For me, it&amp;#039;s a relief to have a company that is down with that. Most of the time, you always feel like, &amp;quot;I could be thinner.&amp;quot; VS likes you better when you look healthier. How did you decompress after fashion month? This season was a little different because I missed a lot of the shows when I was shooting the Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret commercial. Then, I went to St. Tropez for their swim trip and back to Paris. I still did a few shows, but there was less of a need to decompress, I was focused on staying in Europe and finding jobs there. Did you feel like you missed out? Earlier this year, in February, it was rough. I get stressed out sometimes during the shows. You don&amp;#039;t have much personal time and I really love having personal time. Who are your favorite designers? Definitely Jason Wu. We&amp;#039;ve formed a really nice friendship. I really love working with him. Ralph Lauren because it feels like a family. They have such a specific look and when you&amp;#039;re in it, you feel like it&amp;#039;s something special. They do the runway show three times\u2014first time is for friends and family, and you can just feel Ralph&amp;#039;s love and his passion for what he does. Prada, as well. Both times I&amp;#039;ve done that show I just couldn&amp;#039;t believe I was doing it. It just doesn&amp;#039;t feel real. You hear stories about girls getting cancelled last second. She&amp;#039;s so picky and she&amp;#039;s such an artist that she sees everything, and knows exactly what she wants. It just feels really special to get to work with her. Stella McCartney is just the coolest show to do. I love the collection. I love the setting. All of her stuff always feels so fresh. How would you describe your personal style? I used to have a good answer for this question and now I don&amp;#039;t remember what I would say. I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara of course. What&amp;#039;s your favorite place to shop? Narnia in Brooklyn. It&amp;#039;s a really cool vintage store and whoever sources out the clothes there does a really good job. They find really special pieces. It can be weird stuff from Peru or Margiela. What are some of your favorite brands? Topshop and Free People I really like. I like to wear a mix of modern and vintage, so definitely that. I love Isabel Marant, obviously, everybody does. It&amp;#039;s going be impossible to get [the Isabel Marant for H&amp;amp;amp;M collection]. What was your last major purchase? I just bought this pair of thigh-high C\u00E9line boots that I am so excited about. They&amp;#039;re navy. I&amp;#039;ve been wanting a pair of thigh-high boots for a while, but I&amp;#039;ve just been like, &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t do it yet.&amp;quot; Then I was stuck in Europe for a while and I was just like, &amp;quot;You know what? Screw it. I&amp;#039;m just going to do it.&amp;quot; I did it and I love them. [I wore them] a lot when I was in Paris because it seemed more natural. Then I come back to New York, and I&amp;#039;m just waiting to pull them out for the right moment. Especially in Brooklyn, if I put on my miniskirt and my thigh-highs it doesn&amp;#039;t really work. What&amp;#039;s next on your list to buy? Lately I&amp;#039;ve been really wanting to get a nice white blazer. It just looks really chic. Usually I think of pieces in my head and I wait and wait until I find the perfect piece. What do you always have stocked in your handbag? Lip balm from Paris that I really like. Contact solution. My [eyeglasses] are broken right now so I really need to get some glasses. I usually carry sunglasses, obviously. A scarf. I think a scarf is the most versatile item. On a plane it&amp;#039;s good to wrap around when you&amp;#039;re cold or rest your head on it. I love scarves. What is your beauty routine? I always wash my face, in the morning I just use Aveeno moisturizer and sometimes I use a face oil at night, my skin is really dry. I hardly wear makeup because I&amp;#039;m always in makeup for work, so I like to give my skin a break. I also love Rose-Marie Swift&amp;#039;s beauty products, RMS. They&amp;#039;re really nice cause they&amp;#039;re simple, you know where to put them. They&amp;#039;re not as bad for your skin. It just makes you look fresh rather than too done. It&amp;#039;s just the right highlighter here or a touch of color on the lip. What&amp;#039;s your favorite beauty look? I&amp;#039;m starting to get more into lipstick. I love the look, I just never felt sophisticated enough to wear it\u2014I always felt like such a kid when I would wear it. There&amp;#039;s something about it that&amp;#039;s really dramatic. I did rock it not too long ago for the first time, doing it myself. I really liked it so maybe I&amp;#039;ll try it more. In general, my favorite would be a cat eye. That&amp;#039;s just simpler and I know how to do it. That&amp;#039;s my go-to. I like to use the [Elizabeth Arden] Eight Hour Cream and then smudge it a little bit. Then I&amp;#039;ll draw it on with a pencil. I saw a makeup artist do it on me and I liked it.  When you&amp;#039;re not modeling, what do you enjoy doing? I definitely like to get away and be outdoors. I love being on the beach. I&amp;#039;m a fan of being outdoors. I love cooking, it&amp;#039;s really good therapy and I&amp;#039;m taking a cooking class. I&amp;#039;ve made poached salmon, a roasted tomato soup, which is really fun because it&amp;#039;s perfect for this weather now. I made a ricotta whipped scrambled eggs. That was really fun. I love doing yoga. I like to write in a journal every now and again. I try to push myself to do it more. As a kid, I loved to write, but then you get older and you&amp;#039;re just too busy. What&amp;#039;s your favorite place you traveled to for work? There&amp;#039;s so many. It&amp;#039;s hard to choose one. I just went to Iceland, which was amazing, although I don&amp;#039;t know if I&amp;#039;d want to go in the winter. In August, it&amp;#039;s just a fairytale land. The landscape is just totally different than anything I&amp;#039;ve ever seen. You really feel like magical creatures are just going to pop out anywhere. Where would you like to travel to next? There&amp;#039;s a few. I definitely want to go to parts of Africa, and I&amp;#039;d like to travel through the south of India. The cultures are so different and I&amp;#039;d really like to see that. I&amp;#039;ve been to South Africa but I would like to go on a safari.  How was it working with Carine Roitfeld for our Romeo and Juliet Resort 2014 editorial? I was a bit intimidated because it was my first time working with her. So I was like, &amp;quot;Eh, is she going to like me?&amp;quot; Then when we met, she was very personable and we chatted for a while and we really hit it off, I think. I saw her again in Paris for the Vionnet show, which she casted and styled, I was really excited. I&amp;#039;m obviously a fan of her work. She has the coolest style ever. She&amp;#039;s the epitome of style, so it was really cool to work with her. Were you at all nervous getting up-close and personal with Tyson Ballou, for the shoot? I mean, a little bit, but I just enjoyed the job. I enjoy the acting aspect of the job. It really looks like he swept me off my feet! If you weren&amp;#039;t a model, what would you want to do? Probably something in film. I&amp;#039;d say I&amp;#039;d be a move director because that sounds like the coolest job ever. I just like movies. What&amp;#039;s your favorite movie? True Romance, probably. It&amp;#039;s like a cult-classic. What do you want to do after modeling? Finally relax! Finally chill. I&amp;#039;m interested in writing a book. So, everyone should be nice to me. I&amp;#039;d like to start a charity, that&amp;#039;s something I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to do. I&amp;#039;m just keeping my options open to see what falls into place. Hopefully I can get my foot into a business, somehow. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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