{"id":54816,"date":"2017-01-26T03:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T08:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/?p=54816"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:38:23","slug":"ruben-pol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/modeloftheweek\/54816","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Pol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruben was shot exclusively for MODELS.com by Rene Fragoso<\/a>, with styling by Benjamin Russell. Interview by Jonathan Shia<\/a>. Digitals courtesy of Kadeem Johnson at DNA Models.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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interview<\/h2>\n

Name:<\/strong>
\nRuben Pol<\/a><\/p>\n

Agency:<\/strong>
\nDNA Models (New York)<\/a><\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong>
\n20<\/p>\n

Height:<\/strong>
\n6’2″<\/p>\n

Instagram:<\/strong>
\n@rubenpol_<\/a><\/p>\n

Place of Origin:<\/strong>
\nAlphen aan den Rijn, Holland<\/p>\n

Ethnic Origin:<\/strong>
\nDutch<\/p>\n

Birthsign:<\/strong>
\nVirgo<\/p>\n

How discovered:<\/strong>
\nInstagram. I got a comment on a picture like, \u201cWhat\u2019s your age and how tall are you?\u201d I checked the account \u2014it was a model scout actually, not the agency \u2014 but then I showed it to my friends, who were like,\u201dNo don\u2019t reply to that, it\u2019s fake, people will use you for stuff.\u201d I kind of dove into it and then I discovered that it was legit and I sent pictures. Then I got signed in Holland and that\u2019s how I started.<\/p>\n

What were you doing before you started modeling?<\/strong>
\nI was just finishing secondary school. I finished that before I started. I think I did one job in Paris when I was still in school, but I finished school before the rest.<\/p>\n

Favorite things:<\/strong>
\nFirst of all, music. I love anything about music, listening to it, producing it, watching it, watching people perform music, and also playing instruments. I also love cars and food.<\/p>\n

How did you get started in music?<\/strong>
\nI think since I can remember, I\u2019ve always been into music. We always had a guitar at home and I just tried playing it. I wasn\u2019t very good, but then I started figuring out how it worked when I got a little bit older. In the end, I took lessons both in keyboard and guitar and then I just started jamming around with my brother and trying some songs of my own. Then when I heard that people actually liked what I did, I started posting a bit on my social media and I performed at my school with some friends and slowly got a bit more serious, but there\u2019s not one moment where I thought, \u201cOk let\u2019s start with music.\u201d That\u2019s always been there and I think it will always be there as well.<\/p>\n

What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s pretty funny and random. I\u2019m listening to a lot of Anastacia recently. I don\u2019t know how, but I discovered her again. When I was five years old, my mother used to play it a lot at home so it\u2019s kind of nostalgic to listen to it. For the rest, I listen to a lot of hip hop. Hip hop is really big in the nightlife where I am now so I\u2019m listening to that a lot here, but for me it will always be a mix between that and also jazzy, acoustic stuff. It\u2019s just however my mood is. My top artist will always be John Mayer. Whenever I don\u2019t know anything to listen to, I will just play John Mayer and it will be fine.<\/p>\n

Favorite movie, tv show:<\/strong>
\nFavorite movie, that\u2019s one of the questions I can barely answer because it changes all the time. If I had to choose one now, it probably would be some horror movie, maybe Insidious or Paranormal Activity. The thing with horror movies is they\u2019re the only type of movie where I can fully watch the movie without bringing my eyes from the screen because I\u2019m so into it. Every other movie, there will always be a moment where I\u2019m distracted by something else, so I think it\u2019s a horror movie. And my favorite TV show is either Prison Break or The Walking Dead.<\/p>\n

Favorite designer, fragrance or beauty product:<\/strong>
\nMy favorite designer I think is Alessandro from Gucci. I love how Gucci menswear is right now. I absolutely love the last collections. My favorite fragrance is Creed Aventus. I don\u2019t actually use anything for my skin, so for my hair it would be the Surf Spray from Bumble and Bumble.<\/p>\n

What would you be doing if you weren’t modeling?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a good one. I\u2019d probably be in school because I still feel like I shouldn\u2019t stop learning. I feel like I still need to learn a lot, so I\u2019d probably be in school and next to it I\u2019d probably be doing more with music. I would maybe be in a group or on my own maybe recording more songs if I have more time. So probably music and school. I\u2019d probably be studying something technical with a creative twist like industrial design. You get educated as an engineer, but you also learn how to draw and to design and to use your hands so it\u2019s also very creative. You have lessons where you get a piece of clay and you have to imagine a shape and try to recreate with it your hands underneath the table. It\u2019s not fully technical\u2014you get physics and mathematics, but you still need to use your creative mind.<\/p>\n

What’s something uncool that you love anyway?<\/strong>
\nGoing back to the music, when I find a song that I like or that\u2019s new for me and that I like a lot I always tend to play it on repeat many times every single day. Not just on my headphones, but also in my home with other people. People do get annoyed of it but I\u2019m just like, \u201cYeah but it\u2019s amazing, I can\u2019t stop listening to it.\u201d So that might be a little bit uncool.<\/p>\n

What was your first modeling job?<\/strong>
\nMy first real modeling job was the Spring 2016 Dior Homme show. They booked me exclusive worldwide for that and it was a huge, huge honor because it was my first show and my first job as well. They let me open and close it, so that was amazing. It was my first job, but I also think it\u2019s my most amazing job. I had no sense of both how big it was for my career but also the scale of it itself. When I started walking on the catwalk, I had no idea what to expect because the last time that I saw the runway, the guests were not there yet and it looked so open. Then I came in and there were rows of people and cameras and stuff. Even today \u2014 that\u2019s been over a year ago now that I did it \u2014 still sometimes when I go to a casting people talk about it, so I think it has been the best thing I could wish for as a start for my career.<\/p>\n

How did you feel backstage?<\/strong>
\nI was really, really nervous, but then again I didn\u2019t know what to expect. I didn\u2019t know what I was nervous about. I could hear from what was going on that it was pretty big and I knew Dior before I started modeling \u2014 it\u2019s a huge brand\u2014but it was just a weird feeling because I didn\u2019t know what to expect and still I was nervous.<\/p>\n

What’s the best thing about your hometown\/country?<\/strong>
\nI just love the atmosphere of Holland and my hometown and also how neat everything is. Every bit on the street will be precisely cut, like no grass on the street or on the sidewalk and there\u2019ll be flowers everywhere. It\u2019s all just very pretty and organized. It\u2019s my home, so I still feel that even when I\u2019m away from home for a long time. I still feel like Holland will always be home in the end.<\/p>\n

Which brand would you really love to model for?<\/strong>
\nI think I would love to do Calvin Klein because I love the creative thing of all the campaigns like, \u201cI blah blah blah in my Calvins.\u201d It would be so amazing if I could do that campaign and I could decide myself what to fill in.<\/p>\n

Place you would love to visit:<\/strong>
\nI do scuba diving and I\u2019ve now been scuba diving in Asia and around Egypt, but I haven\u2019t been to Australia for scuba diving. I know that the Great Barrier Reef is slowly being destroyed and dying, so I\u2019d love to see that before it\u2019s completely ruined.<\/p>\n

Currently you’re obsessed with\/about:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d say I\u2019m obsessed with vintage shopping. I only discovered not too long ago that it was a thing. I just love that if you go to the right places you can find so much cool stuff and stuff that whenever you wear it, people go like, \u201cWhat designer is it? What is it?\u201d but you only paid like fifteen bucks for it. It\u2019s something that I really love now and I only discovered it some months ago so I\u2019m really hyped about that.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best piece of advice you\u2019ve ever been given?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s probably something my grandpa always says. He was in the Dutch army from a very young age and he was actually in the toughest place. The toughest guys were there, but he always said, \u201cWhenever you feel like you\u2019re dying, either physically or mentally, you can still go so much further.\u201d I think you don\u2019t know what your limits are until you\u2019re experiencing them and actually feeling that you can do so much more than you think. Whenever I\u2019m in a situation where that might be relevant, I always think about that, that I might feel like I can\u2019t do anymore but in the end I can.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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