{"id":56,"date":"2014-10-29T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.ampsmagazine.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:33:23","slug":"56-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Shatema Fergus, the Dayton Ohio Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>AMPS: Shatema, tell the readers about you, where you are from, and where you go to school.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: Well I\u2019m from Bronx New York and I\u00a0currently reside in Dayton Ohio. I\u00a0currently attend\u00a0Central\u00a0State\u00a0University,\u00a0soon to be finishing up with my\u00a0Bachelors in\u00a0Communications.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0How did you get into modeling?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: Well,\u00a0about 2 years ago there was this casting call for a\u00a0Dayton\u00a0fashion week.\u00a0I\u00a0actually\u00a0went to the\u00a0casting\u00a0to\u00a0be a host or MC.\u00a0During my audition,\u00a0I don\u2019t know if they liked me\u00a0as a host, because\u00a0the\u00a0judges\u00a0immediately asked me have I ever modeled before.\u00a0I told them no, but\u00a0I\u00a0think I\u2019m\u00a0kind of funny sometimes\u00a0and\u00a0I felt like I could be the MC.\u00a0They said, \u201cWell how would you like to be a model?\u201d\u00a0I said,\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s\u00a0great!\u201d\u00a0So\u00a0it\u00a0went from there,\u00a0and ever since 2012 I\u2019ve been\u00a0getting myself into\u00a0modeling\u00a0gigs.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0Tell us a little about your personal life. Are you married or single? Do you have any children?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: I\u2019m currently single. I do have\u00a0a 5 year old daughter\u00a0and\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0single.\u00a0She\u2019s really tall for her age\u00a0and my everything. She models now,\u00a0and she\u2019s definitely going to continue. We\u00a0even\u00a0model together sometimes. Right now I\u2019m kind of a home body.\u00a0I do go out, but I\u2019m not into the club scene anymore. I like to go out to eat;\u00a0that\u2019s my biggest thing or even just go\u00a0to bars\u00a0I\u00a0like. I always find\u00a0myself going to a bar after work\u00a0so about mid day. Then it\u2019s time to go home and get on my parental duties.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0You\u2019ve been\u00a0modeling\u00a0since 2012, what have you done that got you to that point?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema:\u00a0The biggest thing I love about\u00a0modeling\u00a0is print work. I feel like I get to be myself as well as helping and supporting a designer a\u00a0makeup\u00a0artist and a hair stylist and I\u2019m the face of all that. So I find that always to be the most exciting thing\u00a0about modeling.\u00a0I think just being friendly to people and helping them, along the way has gotten me to this point.\u00a0\u00a0But,\u00a0yes I like fashion shows, I\u2019ve done a lot but they just require a lot of time and not a lot of perks. I want to be like a TV spokesperson, that\u00a0you see\u00a0travel\u00a0with\u00a0shows and they have that one lady who goes all over just talking to random people,\u00a0or\u00a0going up to people in the\u00a0street.\u00a0I would like to be a spokes model because it would kind of play into what I want to do in my degree which is going into Public\u00a0Relations.<\/p>\n

AMPS: Tell me your measurements?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: 30, 25, 32.\"\"<\/p>\n

AMPS: Are there\u00a0people that\u00a0you look up to in the industry? What\u00a0model out there or what person out there\u00a0do\u00a0you look at and you\u2019re like okay I want to follow kind of what she\u2019s doing?<\/p>\n

Shatema: Well, first I would have said Tyra Banks. I like how she conquered more parts of the industry then any other Top model. Then the more reading I did I started to admire Naomi Campbell only because I feel like she stays original to herself made brand.<\/p>\n

AMPS: Who got you into\u00a0modeling?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: I\u2019d say my big sister who lives in New York.\u00a0She will always try tell me and my mom, you need to\u00a0put\u00a0Tema\u00a0in\u00a0modeling. Growing up,\u00a0people would tell my mom like you need to get discovered\u00a0you\u00a0shouldn’t have\u00a0to put\u00a0any\u00a0money into\u00a0modeling, if you\u2019re putting money into it it\u2019s a scam. So that was my impression of modeling.\u00a0Then when I fell into\u00a0Dayton\u00a0fashion week,\u00a0I\u2019ve been going\u00a0ever\u00a0since and I haven\u2019t really needed to put in any money. I did at one point when I had an agent, but they never found me any work and I was always finding myself work. So\u00a0for the most part I\u2019m kind of on my own. If I find an agent that I was really connecting with and felt like they were\u00a0trying to go as hard as I was going,\u00a0we definitely would work.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0Who would you give credit to?\u00a0I know looking at your\u00a0Facebook page you put the\u00a0saying, \u201cI\u2019d like to thank certain people.\u201d\u00a0Who would you give credit to for contributing to you continuing to model?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: It would have to be\u00a0Caressa\u00a0Brown. She\u2019s the head of DFI which stands for Dayton Fashion Incubator. It\u2019s kind of a new community of people,\u00a0a board that is trying to bring fashion to Dayton. Dayton is kind of small but it could definitely be a fashion capital. And I mean she\u2019s just trying to break the stereotype and break the\u00a0mold\u00a0like saying you don\u2019t have to be a size zero, 6 feet tall to be a model. Basically you can be yourself and still be a beautiful model which I just think that\u2019s great so with that it has given me a lot more confidence to continue.<\/p>\n

AMPS: Give me the top 5 things that you look for in a man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: Okay, my number one has to be respect.\u00a0If you don\u2019t respect your mom,\u00a0you curse her out and stuff, we\u00a0ain\u2019t\u00a0gonna\u00a0fly.\u00a0Obviously you\u2019re not going to respect me let alone my kid. Second would be loyalty. I don\u2019t have time for games and I don\u2019t have time to\u00a0raise no man.\u00a0Definitely loyalty,\u00a0you have to be true to yourself and true to me. And the third would be potential. He has to have potential to want to live up to the way a man should be like,\u00a0maybe you should have potential to want to have a job, and then if you were a dishwasher,\u00a0you should have the potential to want to have a higher paying job. You got to want to wear the pants in the family. The fourth one\u00a0would have to be,\u00a0kind of having his life together some way. And if not, being on the path to getting a life together where we can definitely build each other up, but you definitely have to have that go-getter\u00a0attitude or else I can\u2019t help you. And, oh you said five. The last one is you\u00a0have to be\u00a0good looking.<\/p>\n

AMPS: So, what is good looking to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: You have\u00a0to have\u00a0some type of body about you. I never\u00a0and\u00a0I don\u2019t really prefer men that\u00a0were smaller than me, but\u00a0be able to hold me. I like tattoos.\u00a0I like tattoos a lot. I like dreads and a fresh haircut. Not braids. There\u2019s a difference.\u00a0There\u2019s a\u00a0thing about\u00a0how\u00a0you carry yourself;\u00a0if you have confidence in yourself and you dress nice,\u00a0that\u2019s definitely a turn on for me.<\/p>\n

\"\"AMPS: What is it that\u00a0turns\u00a0you on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema:\u00a0It would have to be looks. I like reading. If I met a guy in the library that would be great, but you never find them in library like they want a smart girl. But they don\u2019t come to the library so I\u00a0don\u2019t know. But that would definitely have to be looks and I will look around and look at their friends to see like if they\u2019re waiting on their friends to pay the bill or if they\u00a0just\u00a0all worry about what their friends doing,\u00a0stuff like that.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0What is the biggest turn off when you\u2019re out and about? If a guy come up to you at the club what is it that they would do that would just turn you completely off?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema:\u00a0If their\u00a0hygiene is bad. I know some guys who just don\u2019t care about showers like that. So don\u2019t come to the club in a wrinkly shirt or something,\u00a0or their finger nails be dirty,\u00a0just little things. Hygiene is my number one like a man with good hygiene is key.<\/p>\n

AMPS: What\u00a0kinds of undergarments do\u00a0you like\u00a0and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema:\u00a0I prefer thongs,\u00a0You don\u2019t have to worry about having no panty lines.\u00a0As far as being in the fashion industry and just a woman like that\u2019s not attractive.\u00a0If you\u2019ve got leggings on get the correct underwear.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0What are your hobbies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema:\u00a0I like to read a lot,\u00a0watch\u00a0nonfiction\u00a0movies and documentaries,\u00a0I find\u00a0them\u00a0really entertaining.\u00a0I like\u00a0African American history.\u00a0I went\u00a0to a predominately white high\u00a0school,\u00a0elementary and middle school and we\u00a0never learned any of that.\u00a0When I got into college and actually paid to take African\u00a0American history I learned a whole lot. So now I\u2019m infatuated.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0What are your\u00a0favorite\u00a0types\u00a0of clothing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: I\u2019d say fitted\u00a0Tops and Jeans. When I was younger it was always hard to find jeans\u00a0because I was so slim.\u00a0I would most likely\u00a0end up wearing “floods”.\u00a0So now I just like\u00a0ones\u00a0that fits me properly.<\/p>\n

AMPS:\u00a0What types of music do you like\u00a0and\u00a0your\u00a0favorite\u00a0artist?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema:\u00a0The type of music I like would have to be hip hop, but my\u00a0favorite\u00a0artist is Rihanna\u00a0I\u2019m not sure what you call her music, but I like anything by Rihanna for real like she\u2019s my\u00a0favorite\u00a0singer.<\/p>\n

AMPS: Any shout outs you want to give to anybody?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shatema: I want to give a shout out to\u00a0my family!\u00a0A\u00a0lot of the people in the fashion industry that are from Dayton ,keep following your dreams.\u00a0I want to give a shout out to Latoya,\u00a0thank you for getting me around when I didn\u2019t have a car. You always took me to casting calls and\u00a0modeling\u00a0fashion shows even when your daughter was definitely competing with me. I\u00a0find\u00a0that so humbling\u00a0and I was very grateful.\u00a0I\u2019d like to give a shout out to\u00a0Lamara\u00a0Paisley;\u00a0he\u2019s a great photographer and always takes care of me and my daughter when we need pictures done locally. That\u2019s definitely a great friendship to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMPS: Shatema, tell the readers about you, where you are from, and where you go to school. Shatema: Well I\u2019m from Bronx New York and I\u00a0currently reside in Dayton Ohio. I\u00a0currently attend\u00a0Central\u00a0State\u00a0University,\u00a0soon to be finishing up with my\u00a0Bachelors in\u00a0Communications. AMPS:\u00a0How did you get into modeling? Shatema: Well,\u00a0about 2 years ago there was this casting call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[449,446,450,447,448,444,35,177,445,443],"class_list":{"0":"post-56","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-modeling","8":"tag-central-state-university","9":"tag-dayton","10":"tag-dayton-fashionweek","11":"tag-dayton-ohio","12":"tag-dayton-you-tuber","13":"tag-fergus","14":"tag-modeling","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-ohio-model","17":"tag-shatema"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3Y8A1274.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}