Cornell - Betty Cornells Teen-Age Popularity Guide

Hi!

Im Betty Cornell. Im the author of this book and I think it only fair to tell you how I got to be that way. First of all let me say that I dont consider myself any great shakes as far as being an author goes. Im not a writer. Im a model. But the truth of the matter is that because I am a model I decided to write this book.

I wrote this book to set down for you the things I learned about beauty and popularity from being a modelthe know-how and the how and the why, etc. Also I have tried to answer the questions teen-agers have kept asking me, such as What do I say? What do I do? How do I act in such and such a situation?

The answers Ive given here are based on my own personal experience. Being a model, I had to know what was the right thing to say and do any time, anywhere. A model is so much in the limelight that she just cant afford to make mistakes. Believe me, when youre on parade all day long, you learn fast. You smooth off your rough edges in a hurry.

In the process of smoothing off rough edges, you find yourself in no time at all what people call Polished. Suddenly youre the kind of person who does the right thing naturally and easily at all times. You have that wonderful and elusive thing called poise. The girl with poise is the girl who knows about good personal care and good conduct. She may not be the prettiest girl, but shes certainly one of the most popular. She gets the dates, the class offices, the bids to college proms.

Because I learned all these basics while I was a teen-ager, I hope that you as teen-agers will find my suggestions helpful. They are specifically designed for you, not for your mothers or your grandmothers, although I wouldnt be surprised if you find that older people are borrowing this book of yours from time to time.

The purpose of my book, then, is to help you teen-agers make the most of yourselves. If you follow through on what I have written here, I know you will be pleased with the results. I say so because these are the methods by which I made myself over from a chubby and awkward little high-school girl into a full-fledged model. Just to prove that Im not fooling, that I mean what I say, Im going to review a little bit of my personal history for you. At the end I think youll see that the only difference between Betty Cornell, the shy, awkward, tubby teen, and Betty Cornell, the model, is the difference between a girl who just slopped along and a girl who found out how to look and act her best.

Not so very long ago, when I was fifteen years old, I was doing all the things any ordinary teen-ager does. I was living with my family, going to school, and being the bane of my older brother Bobs existence. I thought I knew everything. Bob knew that I didnt, and was always trying to prove it.

I remember that one of my biggest problems was the fact that Bob used to rule my social life with an iron hand. He would come to parties where I was having a gay time, ring the doorbell, and announce: Come to pick up my sister. Time for her to go home. Then I was mortified. Now I realize that he was doing the right thing.

In fact, I know now that an older brother is about the best social insurance any teen-ager can have. I found that Bob was the best person to tell me what the score was as far as boys were concerned. Lots of the tips on boys that I have included in some of the chapters of this book were tips I first learned from him.