{"id":148639,"date":"2025-09-20T04:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:12:07","slug":"david-gandy-female-models-were-rightly-paid-more-than-us-i-wanted-to-even-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148639\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gandy: &#8216;Female models were rightly paid more than us. I wanted to even things up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the father of two young daughters, Gandy says he worries too about the effect of AI-generated imagery on mental health, particularly among young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Looking at something that isn&#8217;t even real &#8211; where the person doesn&#8217;t exist &#8211; we don&#8217;t yet know the impact of that yet,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gandy acknowledges that the fashion industry will inevitably need to embrace AI in some ways, but stresses, &#8220;There has to be regulation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For many, supermodel status can mean your personal life is as well-known as your work in fashion. But from his home near London&#8217;s Richmond Park &#8211; which he shares with his partner Stephanie Mendoros, his daughters, and their rescue dog, Dora &#8211; Gandy tells me he guards his privacy fiercely. On our visit, he is careful to shield the pictures of his family dotted around the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always split my private life and my business life,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They&#8217;re two separate things. No one knows what my children look like; there are no images of them online. And I won&#8217;t be posting what I had for breakfast!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conversation swiftly turns to his garden. &#8220;I think you get to an age, I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s about 40 years old, but some men become obsessed with their lawn,&#8221; he says, something he jokingly admits hasn&#8217;t benefited from having a bouncy castle on it all summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He tells me his daughters like to dress him up, too. &#8220;They&#8217;ve put hair bands on me that have bunny ears and bear ears, and I&#8217;ve forgotten that I&#8217;ve been wearing them,&#8221; he recalls, &#8220;So then I&#8217;ve gone shopping with them on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve come back and my partner has said to me, &#8216;You know you&#8217;ve got bunny ears on?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gandy shakes his head, laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the father of two young daughters, Gandy says he worries too about the effect of AI-generated imagery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-148639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}