“Am I too soft, or is the world too harsh?” I think, to a certain extent, everybody wants to be a model. In season 4 of Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw herself is recruited to be an “authentic New York Real Person model,” to which she readily retorts: “But I’m not a model.” And really, what’s wrong with wanting? As Nicolaia Rips quips for Vogue, “You dream of someone eyeing you on the…