Lauren Bans connects with model Lucky Blue Smith for an in-depth feature for New York Magazine’s most recent issue. Traveling to Los Angeles and meeting Smith’s family, Bans’ profile brings to surface interesting details about the 17 year-old boy wonder.
- Apparently, Lucky’s Chinese fans call him Little Fresh Meat, which is a nickname for young good-looking men.
- Lucky uses the same pomade as Elvis Presley: “Even if it was, like, bad, I would still use it. I wouldn’t care.”
- Two years ago, Lucky’s family moved into a two-bedroom apartment owned by his mother agency Next to pursue their dreams. Lucky’s father Dallon has been nurturing the idea of the family band–The Atomics.
- Being Mormon, Lucky will have to decide soon whether he will take a year off from modeling to do a mission abroad. His parents say that it’s up to him.
- Lucky’s mother Sheridan talks about regular meetings to discuss each of her children’s goals: “We started calling them three-by-five-card meetings. Whenever someone has a big project, we write it on an index card and it goes up on the wall. And it doesn’t come down until it’s done.”
- Seeing that Ellen DeGeneres often has her guests dance, Lucky took a dance lesson for his appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
- Lucky on other models: “Most of them are jerks and stuff like that, until you prove yourself. You gotta prove yourself. Some of the guys can get really cocky and rude, but the bigger models are just like whatever, like, ‘You’re cool, I’m cool,’ you know? They’re nicer because they’re not insecure.”
- Lucky’s sisters all have equally amazing names: Daisy Clementine, Pyper America and Starlie Cheyenne. Lucky shares a Kia Soul with his three sisters.
- Lucky on the perfect runway walk: “Walking is pretty easy. You just have to be confident, like not caring. And honestly, people think about their walk too much, so they try to do something really interesting, but the designers hate it.”
- Both of Lucky’s grandmothers were models.
Read more at NYMag.com.
