In Today's She's A Child News: 10 Year Old Model Signs With YG's The Black Label

[pearlychoco.livejournal.com]

Ella Gross is confirmed to have signed with The Black Label!

On July 23, the sub-label of YG Entertainment shared through an official statement, “We have signed an exclusive contract with Ella Gross, who is receiving warm attention as a model of global fashion brands.”

Born in 2008, Ella Gross is a well-known child model with over 700,000 followers on Instagram. In addition to her modeling talents, The Black Label also noticed her skills in singing, dancing, acting, and playing instruments.

The Black Label’s head Teddy commented on Ella Gross, “She has a special voice that is completely capable for being a singer, as well.”

Many speculated that she had signed with The Black Label last month when the Instagram accounts of both Ella Gross and BLACKPINK’s Jennie posted a photo together with The Black Label tagged.

https://instagram.com/p/BkoipxtA9wZ

if anyone wants to know my thoughts on this, just look at my userpic lol

Sources: Naver via Soompi, @ellagross

Comments

[glider.livejournal.com]

I heard not long ago that she was supposedly trending for looking like Jennie. YGE remains transparent and creepy as fuck tbh, I feel bad for kids whose parents sell them out like this without a thought too

[ty.livejournal.com]

ia

and when they say "she wants to do this"

yeah, but she's TEN. Be a parent.

[juhli.livejournal.com]

Lots of trainees start really young though? And if she's a child model, it makes sense that they wanted to sign her asap before another company snatches her away.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Most trainees indeed start at a really young age, but we hardly ever hear about that until after theyve debuted at a later age I guess? In any case, the entertainment industry is hardly a safe place for adults let alone children so I hope she's well looked after tbh

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

this doesn't sound like a trainee contract it sounds like they're taking over her management and she'll be doing work under them starting now.

[921227.livejournal.com]

She does all that & she's mixed ?? She'll have a good career in SK, we might even be seeing her in a gg a few years from now

[kewtah.livejournal.com]

god I hate seeing children in the business it just rubs me the wrong way. Even worse that she's so popular on instagram... who tf follows a 10 yr old on instagram!?!?

[scionofawhisper.livejournal.com]

pedos?

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

i don't know if this comes off as insensitive but i wonder why it is that most of the biracial celebrities in korea have korean mothers and foreign fathers. idk just something i've been wondering

either way i know people see this as weird (and i do think it is) but it's nothing new, it's crazy to think jihyo has been with jyp for over 10 years when she's only 21 years old.

[welljustguess.livejournal.com]

For comparison, in my developing country, it is because foreign women's needs, especially from developed country, considered hard to meet by our standard salary, which is low. Then, the men lose confidence.

[jyushimatsu.livejournal.com]

It’s not insensitive. Not to sound like an /r/aznidentity user but I do think it’s easier for korean women to date white men than the other way around.

[premonitioner.livejournal.com]

if you're asking why it seems more common for there to be foreign men/Korean women couples, there are many reasons, I think. for example, traditionally a daughter leaves her family when she gets married, and she doesn't carry her family name on, whereas sons (particularly first sons) are seen to carry on the family bloodline, so they have a lot of pressure to marry a good Korean girl from a good family. there's a common phrase amongst foreign women in Korea - don't date a first son because the parents will oppose and the relationship won't go anywhere.

so there's that traditional pressure. also, this is my personal opinion, but the average Korean man fckn sucks. if I was a Korean girl, I'd probably try to marry a foreigner who's less likely to treat me as a baby making machine, expect me to give up my career to raise children, and then ignore me for their 8am-11pm corporate job. does the foreigner have yellow fever? probably. but its a lesser evil.

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

that's interesting, thank you. it's something that i've noticed with japanese biracial celebrities as well. i know r/hapa is always pissed when it comes to white man/asian women pairings

[premonitioner.livejournal.com]

obviously white men are grossly over glorified and aren't perfect either, but it seems that there are fewer traditional (misogynistic) expectations for women in these communities if they marry outside of it.

I do see where the r/hapa anger comes from, given white ppls history of stealing everything

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

i did some research and i'm pretty sure korean women keep their surnames when they get married, but she can't carry the family name on because all her children take their father's surname. so it's a bit of both.

[sacryde.livejournal.com]

One of my good friends is half Filipino on her mother's side, and a while ago she told me about how her mothers one big goal in life had been to marry white. Her mother raised her to only speak English and refused to teach her Tagalog, has said horrible things about her own culture for as long as she can remember, and basically threw a fit because my friend wanted her future child (she's pregnant currently) to call her mom by a traditional Filipino word for grandparents. There is a lot of self-hatred there, and obviously this isn't the case with every person/culture, but it could be a factor in at least some of the relationships that you see.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there really are more.. everyone I can think of has a Korean mom too. But I know it's pretty common for Korean men to marry SE asian women, especially in the countryside. Those kids don't become celebs, or they do and we just don't think of them as mixed?

[welljustguess.livejournal.com]

She doesnt looks like Jennie at all though?

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

"She has a special voice that is completely capable for being a singer"

does that mean a voice that they can train to mimic bom and rose? =/

[pearlychoco.livejournal.com]

god, i hope not

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

special voice that is completely capable

girlie is 10, her voice will most likely change as she gets older. also, "completely capable" sounds like she has a mediocre voice that is good enough for 1-2 lines per song at its best. they're already marketing her as the visual... someone save that poor girl

[mortkero.livejournal.com]

Keep her away from YG!!!

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

this being publicly acknowledge prob means she's not a trainee and will legit be doing gigs under YGE -_- prob modeling for a while but ugh parents what are you doing let your kids be kids!

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

10??? Yikeeeeees

[shoshow.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Minzy joined YG around 11/12 also, so nothing new for K-entertainment companies preying on young individuals to suck dry and leave them hanging once all the profits been made.
She's a pretty girl I see her going into acting more than an Idol route, as the netizens say she has an "actress vibe"

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

she's already started acting, she has a role in the heathers tv show as the younger version of one of the characters, and she's already been in a good few of the episodes (though i don't watch it so i don't know how much screen-time she gets or if she's any good).

[shoshow.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I thought she was just gonna be a trainee I really hope her parents are smart and aren't just exploiting her at such a young age. There's a smart way to handle child stars and there's also the not so great stories

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

i bet she's yg responds to this nahaeun girl .... i hope they wait a couple of years before they let her debut

[mandm13.livejournal.com]

I ran into a video of this kid when she was dancing with Gfriend, but when I learnt she was 9 I couldn't believe it! Kids being exposed like this (and their parents allowing it and making profit off it) is so wrong in many ways. And yes, I can watch her videos and admire how talented she is at such a young age, but I'm afraid most views will not come from people like me :/

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

to be fair, it seems like na haeun has a say in her career; apparently her song/mv were made for fun and not as an attempt to become an idol. of course no one can know the full reality of the situation if they're not involved, but most of my worries were assuaged after learning that. she's probably just a normal kid who likes to sing and dance.

[mandm13.livejournal.com]

My worry is more about overexposing little kids in general and how it may affect them, but anyway I am glad to hear that!

[minho-lover.livejournal.com]

ugh, yg is so creepy i hate him. i always worry about these famous child-celebs. hearing that over 700,000 people follow her on ig just gives me a queasy feeling. hope she is protected well

[oh-folk.livejournal.com]

I know this is par the course in the industry, but it's still so... unnerving.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Someone please look after this child... I hope she has good support around her.

[paige-nevaeh.livejournal.com]

Why the heck are 10 year olds allowed Instagram accounts.

I get it's her career...but she's just a kid.

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

her mum runs her ig account, so she probably doesn't really have much say in it

[paige-nevaeh.livejournal.com]

idk about you, but...that sits even worse with me.

[ty.livejournal.com]

agreed