Jacqueline Depaul featured in July/August 2012 Fitness Magazine article “Unleash Your Inner Winner”
Here is a sample of author Dana Hudepohl’s article on winning:
Determine your gold medal
Jacqueline Depaul set her sights on modeling — at age 38. “I felt uninspired with my life and needed a creative outlet,” says Jacqueline, a salesperson for an engineering company. She read self-help books; volunteered as a model for charity events, photographers, and designers; took runway classes; studied nutrition; and began exercising five to six days a week. “I basically attacked my hobby,” she says. At 42, she beat out 5,000 women in a 40-and-over model search to win a contract with the Wilhelmina agency. “When they announced my name as the grand-prize winner, I felt that four years of effort had come to fruition,” Jacqueline says. “I had started with just a dream, my North Star.”
Your gold medal doesn’t have to be awarded in a formal contest. It simply has to fill in the blank: “I want ___.”
