Model talent will do you no good at all if you don't have that model spunk! Maybe that's the true talent. Breezing through rejections and the harshest of criticisms without blinking an eye. The ways this kind of model talent can see you through may be invisible to you now, but one day you will see what just the basic survival skills can help you to accomplish.
Let all the squares continue on believing that good looks and poise are the only model talent that you need to make it into the big time. They've never learned how to become scarred and then let it heal gracefully in time for the next model talent audition to come up, so when that first harsh rejection rears it's head, they'll be torn to pieces while you sail on ahead.
When the pros look for model talent sometimes it is exactly this type of personality that they are seeking, someone who can work long thankless hours and smile through it all, only grumbling slightly under their breath when no-one is looking. Model talent in this cat eat cat world is measured in various ways that have yet to be scientifically analyzed.