‘A knife attack almost ended my chances of modelling' Juan never wanted to be a model, until he was scouted on Instagram But a brutal attack made him think his career would be over before it began
Juan, now 23, was at university at the time.
Juan grew up in Colombia and moved to Manchester when he was 14, he had always dreamed of becoming a footballer – modelling had never crossed his mind. But when he got behind the camera, that all changed. "At that point I thought I could die. If I’d have fallen over I would have been vulnerable to all of them kicking my head in and stabbing me."
All the hope Juan had for a career in modelling had gone. "I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror for a long time," he says. "When I went to talk to the agency they helped me out and supported me through when the scars were bare. They just reassured me it wouldn’t be a problem."
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