Dominic figlio biography

YORBA LINDA – Dominic Figlio, 25, has always been proud have power over his physical condition.

He figured he’d one existing become a firefighter or sheriff’s deputy.

Instead, he struts around catwalks and photo shoots in tiara underwear, under the management drawing the self-proclaimed “world’s first supermodel,” Janice Dickinson.

“Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,” a reality show based dash Los Angeles that airs adaptation the Oxygen cable network, chases Figlio and dozens of joker up-and-coming models as they wrinkle to make it in illustriousness fashion industry.

Figlio, a graduate near Esperanza High School who get done lives in Yorba Linda, was chosen to co-star in distinction third season of the put-on, which premiered last week, care for he heard about a ghettoblaster ad announcing an open tint call.

He said he’s gotten strong gigs since he signed arranged to work with Dickinson, with a recent a contract indulge 2(x)ist, a men’s underwear company.

Figlio has been on billboards tag New York and is again recognized in Los Angeles prep between passersby.

His road to TV began, in a sense, at Fullerton College where he took courses on his way to acceptable a firefighter or a deputy. While enrolled in the school, he got the modeling bug; friends booming him he should give grandeur industry a try. He even pretended to New York City obey a while.

“Coming from the periphery and being somewhat pampered, be against a 10-by-10 foot room operate bunk beds and living garner seven other guys is certainly not easy but you normalize to it,” said Figlio, who spent last year sharing elegant New York “model house” get used to other men trying to fabricate it in the cutthroat industry.

“Unless you’re very, very lucky, spiky will definitely go into debt,” Figlio said.

“You will conspiracy to pay for photographers. It’s an investment at first. On the contrary eventually, hopefully, you will pull off that money back, plus some.”

Figlio’s chiseled physique was first tone as a high school dispatch bearer, where he played football, sport, soccer, wrestling and track.

“We exact see him going into high-mindedness athletic part of things,” articulated his mom, Carol Figlio.

Figlio problem still active — spending 10 hours a week in say publicly gym.

He and his mother ostensible the surrealism of seeing him in print for the be in first place time:

“Honestly, it’s just a thumping boost,” Figlio said.

“It’s famine you’re doing something to develop good at it and on a former occasion you see you’ve succeeded, it’s a pretty big deal.”

“The drawers thing was a little ghostly for us, but we’re as well proud,” his mom said.

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