As we speak, there is a fresh episode of Holland's Next Topmodel on the fire that we will serve to you tonight at 21:30. What we are trying to emphasize extra with this series is that you should not think too lightly about the profession.

Okay, okay, it is a luxury industry where you can earn a lot of money and there are many people with a heavier life but being a model is more than just being beautiful. During New York Fashion Week, I followed Maartje Verhoef, a Dutch top model from Micha Models, for two days. On those days, my alarm went off at 05:45 and my head hit the pillow at 00:45. For 17 hours, we ran from show to show, from fitting to casting and back again. There was no five-minute lunch or coffee break. For me, this spectacle lasted two days, Maartje does this for a month and then also moves from New York to London, Milan, and Paris.

With such a schedule, you have to be strong on your feet. You run your own company as a model and, as the great Baudelaire said: “Que c’est un dur métier d’être belle femme.” In other words, it is a tough job to be beautiful.

As if that is not enough, you have to make sure your skin looks its best, your hair is healthy, and your body is as the designers want it. Not too thick but certainly not too thin.

If you have to stand on your slender legs for sixteen hours a day for a month, you need to be strong and healthy, otherwise, you won't last. I know many agents who have stopped working with a girl who was too thin in a way they found irresponsible. If you don't eat healthily, you can't hold up mentally either.

A lot, a lot is asked of models. The good agents ensure that ‘their’ girls achieve that body in a healthy way. By exercising and by, for example, cooking from the book of Rens Kroes (a favorite among models, I know that Maartje Verhoef likes to cook from Rens’ book).

 Kate Moss spoke years ago the words: Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” But I want to give that a 2014 twist and turn it into “Nothing tastes as good as happy and healthy feels.” Look at Doutzen, look at Maartje, look at Imaan. Happy and healthy is what it's all about. Because, let's face it, that's ultimately much more important than your hip size?

Are you watching tonight? Holland’s Next Topmodel, 21:30 RTL5