Swift rejected over wall, $8m neighbour act<\/a><\/p>\n Bruno Mars shocks on $60m debt claims at 40<\/a><\/p>\n Brooklyn Decker and her tennis legend husband Andy Roddick quietly amassed a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio across the US. Picture: Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Despite reaching the pinnacle of fame with modelling, Decker walked away from the industry at her financial peak, refusing to \u201cstay in her lane\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI walked away from modelling and that was lucrative for me at the time,\u201d Decker confessed to CNBC<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cI could\u2019ve easily gone back to what was comfortable and what was a sure thing and what I knew would make me an income, and I didn\u2019t. I chose to be kind of unemployed for a while.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was one of the things that I was most proud of, is having a piece of humble pie and staying the course.\u201d<\/p>\n Decker revealed she secretly hated the job itself, despite enjoying the luxury travel opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t great when I was modelling, so I kind of left the second I could,\u201d she admitted to Chelsea Lately in 2014.<\/p>\n Despite reaching the pinnacle of fame with modelling, Decker walked away from the industry at her financial peak, refusing to \u201cstay in her lane\u201d.<\/p>\n Despite reaching the pinnacle of fame with modelling, Decker walked away from the industry at her financial peak, refusing to \u201cstay in her lane\u201d.<\/p>\n The former cover girl said she often struggled to look \u201celegant and elongated\u201d and had a terrible strut.<\/p>\n \u201cI never walked a runway because I was too klutzy,\u201d she said. \u201cI could never get through a runway casting. I mean, I couldn\u2019t walk!\u201d<\/p>\n She also slammed the brutal nature of the industry, contrasting its reliance on \u201ctrendiness\u201d with merit-based acting work.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the one profession where, no matter how hard you work, if you\u2019re not trendy, nothing\u2019s happening for you,\u201d Decker told The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cWith acting, if you audition terribly, at least you know, \u2018I messed that up. I was horrible. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t get the job.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cWith modelling, it\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m not cool this year, therefore I\u2019m unemployed for a while.\u2019 With modelling, it\u2019s just, either you\u2019re liked or you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n Brooklyn Decker and Adam Sandler in a scene from film Just Go With It.<\/p>\n When Decker decided to pivot into acting, she faced immediate pushback from industry insiders.<\/p>\n \u201cThe worst advice would be when someone told me to stay in my lane,\u201d Decker told ABC News<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cI was modelling and was going to make the very clich\u00e9 transition into acting \u2026 but I think they had the best intentions in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey were trying to encourage me to go after job security and they\u2019re like, \u2018You have a good thing going, why would you ruffle feathers, why make a detour career wise?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n After stepping back from Hollywood, Decker co-founded the fashion app Finery, which was later acquired by Stitch Fix.<\/p>\n She also launched interior design and virtual-reality golf ventures with Roddick in North Carolina, where they raised their two children, Hank and Stevie.<\/p>\n Looking back, Decker urged younger women navigating fickle industries to embrace the power of stepping away.<\/p>\n \u201cSay no. And don\u2019t explain yourself. Just say no, and that\u2019s OK,\u201d she told the BUILD Series in 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you get that weird feeling inside that says, \u2018you know what, you don\u2019t have to do this,\u2019 you can walk away \u2026 You have a lot of power.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE: It\u2019s time\u2019: Star suddenly quits $149m in fear<\/a><\/p>\n 50yrs on: What $1bn ABBA all look like now <\/a><\/p>\n \u2018F**k\u2019: What Chris Rock\u2019s divorce really cost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She shot to global fame on the cover of the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, then walked away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-912299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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