Celebrities may appear to have very glamorous lives, but every once in a while we get a glimpse of the time, energy, and dedication it took for many of them to get where they are today. And — spoiler alert: The struggle is real. Take Chrissy Teigen, for example. She wasn’t always followed by the president on Twitter, married to a famous musician, and the brains behind Cravings, her incredible cooking brand. Teigen started as a model, and while she ultimately achieved peak success with a cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, she scrapped and struggled, like so many others, at the start. Her latest Instagram post highlights the amount of tenacity and dedication she committed to her passion and dream of becoming a supermodel — and details the raw, decidedly unglamorous, reality.