Tamara Adams is fifteen years old.

Tamara Adams is fifteen years old. She normally catches the bus to school at 8.30. She meets her best friend, Stacey Thomas, at the bus stop. Like all the other girls at Westin High School, Tamara wears the school uniform - a green skirt and a white blouse, with green socks, a green tie, and a blue jacket. When she comes home in the evening, she does her homework and watches TV.

But this week Tamara isn't going to school. She isn't living at home. She's staying at an expensive London hotel. And she definitely isn't wearing her school uniform. She's wearing the lastest fashions.

Six month ago Tamara won a competition in Flair magazine. The prize was to be a model in a top fashion show this week. So now it's 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning. At this time Tamara usually walks across the school playground to her next lesson. Nobody looks at her. She's just another girl with her friends. But this week things are different. She isn't walking across the playground. She's walking along the catwalk at the London Clothes Show. Hundreds of people are watching her and cameras are flashing.

Tamara's mother, Barbara, is here, too. At the moment she's sitting with Zoe Carson from the Ella Marie modelling agency. Zoe: 'I think Tamara has go a great future as a model. Today models are like film stars. They have to work hard, but the can earn millions.'

What does Tamara think? 'Well, I'm enjoying this week. I'm meeting lots of new people and there are parties every night. I've got my GCSE exams in June and I'm working hard for them, but no mater that, I think I'd really like to be a model.'

Barbara is worried: 'Tamara's only 15 years old, and yesterday Ella Marie offered her a contract for £50000 a year. That's a lot of money. But things can change so quickly. This year you're number one and next year nobody wants you. But nobody can take your education away from you.'