There’s a stereotype that models live glamorous, exciting lives. While that's mostly fiction, and there’s a lot of hard work and diligence involved in maintaining a six pack, it seems cosmically unfair that for someone as good-looking as Jarrod Scott, the swanky, globe-hopping supermodel cliché is actually true.
Case in point: Scott, an Australian native living in New York, and the face of Roberto Cavalli’s fall and winter campaign, is also a race car driver. He was named a “Friend of Ferrari” by, well, Ferrari. Which means he designed his own car at Ferrari headquarters after driving a 488 Spider there from Florence, and they have plans for him to participate in the exclusive Ferrari Corso Pilota training this year and race in the Ferrari Challenge Series next year.
This is the kind of resume that you see in a spy comedy, where the hero agent is so handsome and interesting that it’s satire. And on top of all of that, I was told he used to be a soccer player...
“Australian football, actually.”
Football like soccer though, right?
“No, it’s Australian rules football, a different sport.”
Okay, so it turns out that Australia has their own sport! And because the soccer/football divide isn’t already confusing for Americans, it’s actually a mash-up of soccer and U.S. football.
“It’s a 360-game so you can move in any direction, and it’s continuous, so our training is a lot more intense than American football,” he says. To be blunt, it’s a game of pad-free, mighty-thighed players spiking a bouncy ball around a field bigger than a U.S. football field. And after watching games online, it’s surprising that more of these guys don’t retire from the sport as international models.
Australian football fit is different from supermodel fit. It’s debatable which is more punishing—aesthetics versus performance—but supermodel fit does have one advantage: You only have to look like a model when you’ve got a campaign, which means it doesn’t make sense to go full-tilt all the time: “I plateau in my training,” Scott says, “so I come to a point where you keep training but I don’t get more results. So I stop training for a few weeks before picking it up again, so my body has a better chance to develop.”
And like most people working to stay fit, Scott’s experimented with a lot of diets: “Red meat I cut out for a couple of years, and I’ve tried being vegan but that was pretty tough—I had to spend my whole day eating. I usually mix up things now, some nights vegetarian, some nights are steak nights. I like a balance.”
Meal planning is a big deal but it’s hard to stick to a routine. Scott tries to eat breakfast every day and skips lunch, instead opting for an afternoon snack pre-workout. (Avocado toast, usually.) And for dinner, he prefers not to cook anything that requires a pan.
“If you don’t have anything in your fridge, then you’re out of options,” he says. “So, I don’t spend much time cooking hot food because of the time it takes to prepare. I usually just eat pre-packaged smoked salmon because it’s already good to go.”
Jarrod’s No-Cooking Dinner
Cold-smoked salmonCilantroChopped asparagusChopped broccoli
Watch Now:Model Adrianne Ho Dishes About Life in Model DormsLuke Darby is a contributor to GQ, covering news, entertainment, and the environment. A Louisiana native, he now resides in Cleveland, and his writing has also appeared in Outside, the Dallas Observer, and Marie Claire.Related Stories for GQFerrariFerrariReal Life Dietcopyright © 2023 powered by NextHeadline sitemap