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Thomas Austin Ogle obituary
- [S106] The Mountain Press, 23 Mar 2007.
'Burg native graces cover of Newsweek mag
By: J.J. KINDRED, Staff Writer
March 23, 2007
When you pick up the current edition of Newsweek magazine, take a good look at the cover. That young woman pictured is from Sevier County.
Austin Ogle Musick, a Gatlinburg native and 1997 graduate of Gatlinburg-Pittman High School, graces the cover as a model for a story called "Exercise and the Brain."
Musick, 27, moved to New York a year ago to pursue an acting career and was encouraged by her agents to also pursue modeling.
"Everybody said all actors up here model because it pays the rent," Musick said during a telephone interview. "I've got a commercial theatrical agent and someone who I'm freelancing with called Silver Models. I moved up here to act, and this just happens to be the bigger thing.
"Basically they bought me in and it was me and another girl," she said of how she got picked for the cover photo. "We did test shoots together and they called me and told me I was on the cover."
That wasn't the only good news Musick received that day: She was also chosen to play a small role on the long-running soap opera "Guiding Light." The episode will air on April 27.
"Two good things all happened in one day," Musick said with a laugh. She will also appear in a spread for Shape magazine, which will be on newsstands in June.
Married with a 9-year-old daughter, Musick said she flirted with modeling while in high school, but took a hiatus to pursue a theater degree from the University of Tennessee.
After being a full-time mother for several years and living in Knoxville, Musick said it wasn't an easy adjustment living in New York.
"It was a definite change," she said. "I miss the mountains, the clean air, timeliness and everything. Rent is so much cheaper there, and here it is so much. It was a big budget change.
"I love it here," Musick said of New York. "It's fast-paced, and at my age now I definitely took the mountains for granted. I plan to retire in Gatlinburg - I can't stay away from the mountains for too long."
Musick's grandmother, Jean Ogle, is excited for her granddaughter.
"Diana (Musick's mother) and I are so proud of her," Ogle said. "She's a special young girl - she's a young lady actually. She's working very hard, and her daughter is her first priority, but she loves what she's doing."
* jkindred@themountainpress.com
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Abt 1980 - (~ 44 years)