Early Career
Two weeks after walking into Eileen Ford's modeling agency (ostensibly to look for a summer job) Corby was sent on her first modeling assignment. By the end of that first summer, she was steadily booking assignments and her parents enrolled her in Manhattan's Professional Children's School, which allows for the irregular schedules of actors and models. By her last year of high school she was so busy she hardly ever attended classes.
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