alright, this is just my opinion, but 16 year olds can already be in the olympics, let alone being posted on the internet. i'm definitely not saying the younger the better, but i think that by 16, they can make up their own minds. the second someone says they're too young to do something is the second that they give up on it, and women do make careers out of modeling. if russia is 13 or 14, as someone said earlier, i'd say that kinda "skewed", but i think that a 16 year old can make his/her own decisions, and doesn't need mommy to still show them what's right and what's wrong.