IN PICS: The life of a fashion model

Being a model isn't all fun and games. In fact it is everything BUT fun and games. Photographer Philippe Wojazer followed French model Marine Deleeuw and caught her on camera as she went about her work at Paris Fashion Week.

French top model Marine Deeuw, originally from Valenciennes northern France, was 18 when she first stepped down a catwalk -- opening the first ready-to-wear show of the September 2012 season in New York. Now, ahead of the four-week marathon of shows, she is aware that in modelling your body is your instrument and plans to 'rest the most I can, take vitamins, and do everything possible to not fall ill'.

Here, Deleeuw has a dreamy look as she takes a break between a casting for Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 fashion collection and that of fashion house Valentino in Paris.

Marine Deleeuw hugs a model friend backstage before the start of Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 fashion show in Paris.