The Forgotten Story Of A Most Successful Male Supermodel - Sean O'Pry

He was 17 years old, playing football in a Georgia town of 30,000 people, when a stranger scouted him from his prom photos on MySpace. Within three years he was the world's highest-paid male model at $1.5 million a year. He walked 18 shows in one Milan season. He opened for Versace, Givenchy, Balmain. Calvin Klein, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana — every major house wanted him. Then in 2014 he starred in Taylor Swift's Blank Space music video. It got 3.5 billion views. And Sean O'Pry — the man Forbes had crowned the top male model on earth — became "that hot guy from the Taylor Swift video." He told Forbes his life ambition was for people to "stop asking me fucking Taylor Swift questions." They never did. This is the story of the male supermodel who was replaced in public memory by a three-minute music video.