Adelaide state Liberal MP Rachel Sanderson sells her modelling agency Adelaide MP Rachel Sanderson is selling the modelling agency she started 18 years ago. Rachel Sanderson pictured with young model Stepanie Dicesare, 13. Picture: Bobrige Noelle Source: adelaidenow ADELAIDE state Liberal MP Rachel Sanderson launched her modelling agency from a spare room in her Prospect home in 1994, setting up meetings in local libraries for lack of space. Almost 20 years on and with 500 models on her books, Ms Sanderson has sold the business that helped her build a profile for her 2010 run for State Parliament. Ms Sanderson, who has had staff manage Rachel's Model Management and Training and cut back her involvement to "a few hours a month" since becoming an MP, says she is completely committed to her political career. "I've been looking at selling it for a few years," she says. You want someone who will run it the way you wanted it run and keep it successful. Rachel's Model Management business manager, Angie Cristophel, will take over the modelling and acting agency side of the business and its actor training courses, moving them from North Adelaide to the SA Film Corporation site at Glenside. A former student of Ms Sanderson, Mejlin Skrzypiec, the founder of women's life coaching business Flourish Me, will shift the model training and grooming and self esteem courses into the city. Ms Sanderson, a shock winner over high-profile Labor minister Jane Lomax-Smith in 2010, says running a business was good preparation for politics "because you work long hours and learn to be ultimately responsible for every decision." She says she cannot understand former Labor minister Patrick Conlon working three days a week as a lawyer after moving to the backbenches. "Any (business) work I've done is on top of 60 hours for my electorate," she says.