Lots of reasons actually.
After 5 years my career wasn't as big anymore as it was in the beginning, and modelling was never my ambition in the first place. I kinda rolled into it and had quite the career when i was around 19-ish.
But i was gone frome home from my 18th till my 22nd. It's hard to be living all over the world (from Paris to NY to Sydney to Tokyo) when you are so young and still in the proces of developing yourself. I had no idea where my home was because the whole world was my home.
I didn't have much 'REAL' friends because i was always travelling. And you are not really building something up for your future, unless you make shitloads of cash (i made some good money, but i spent it all on travelling).
So around my 22nd i decided to quit and to start building up an actual life in one city, with actual friends, a job, a house, you know, actual building stones for my future.
But after modelling it's reaaaally hard to re-enter the 'real' world and now that i'm almost 26 i'm still struggeling to get my life together. I thought i had it figured out for a few years, with a good job etc, but the blood alwats crawls where it can't go, as we say in Holland, and i realised i have to make my dreams come true...and that brings us to this competition
Ok, i'll get off my soapbox now!