Mesa family regrets getting involved with mall model search

by Meredith Yeomans, azfamily.com
November 30, 2011
Updated yesterday at 4:05 PM

MESA, Ariz. -- Home video taken during a model search competition at Superstition Springs Mall shows a bubbly 9-year-old Brooklyn Larsen striking poses at the end of the runway.

In the background, the sound of a host on a microphone encouraging her every step of the way.

"Walk on down," the host says. "Here she comes, looking beautiful in blue."

Brooklyn is followed by her 4-year-old brother, Logan, who gladly repeated his moves for our camera.

Their good looks and cute personalities is what drew their father, Michael Larsen, to the mall contest held by American Mall Model Search where Michael videotaped that host, a company representative.

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