After college, Scott was more interested in acting than computer science, and began pursuing auditions in New York City.
Her body had changed in college, partly due to taking weight-gain supplements, and she says she "started looking more like a model".
So, with the encouragement of friends, she applied for modeling work, but was turned down by every agency she approached for two years; her parents urged her to take up computer science jobs.

Scott had, however, put her picture on the website Models.com, and in 2008 she was contacted by Click Model Management of New York City.
Elle Girl featured her in a video about the day of a fashion model, including some of her Click new model training.
She was then 24, which was considered old for a model.
The agency asked her to trim five years from her age, and for her first few years modeling she claimed to have been born in 1990.

Even with an agency contract, Scott wasn't immediately successful.
In early 2009 Scott's work was handing out flyers on a street corner when she got a call from fashion house Calvin Klein.
During New York Fashion Week, she became the first black model to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein.
Bethann Hardison said that no model in recent history had made such an impact.

Other prestigious modeling jobs followed: in her first years as a model, she modeled for Vera Wang, DKNY, Baby Phat, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and appeared in the magazines Italian Elle, Teen Vogue, and W. Style.com listed her as a top 10 newcomer.
In the 2010 fall NYFW, she was the only black model walking runways for Prada.
She also changed agencies to Elite Model Management, which was more accepting of her actual age.

In December 2013, Scott responded to a question on Quora, the question and answer website, about "What does it feel like to go from physically unattractive to attractive?".
She wrote about being awkward and bullied in high school, then getting model looks after college, and the advantages and problems that came with that, while still programming in taped glasses at home.
Her answer was reprinted in Slate, Business Insider, and PopSugar.

Until that time, Scott had kept her programming separate from her modeling.
That Quora post drew attention to her programming skills; from then on, she was covered as the model with a secret identity as a coder.
Others credited her with disproving the stereotypes that fashion models had no brains, and computer programmers were pasty-faced geeks.
The fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar combined her passions by asking her to report on the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and Maria Shriver asked her to detail her favorite mobile apps for NBC News.
After college, Scott was more interested in acting than computer science, and began pursuing auditions in New York City. Her body had changed in college, partly due to taking weight-gain supplements, and she says she "started looking more like a model". So, with the encouragement of friends, she applied for modeling work, but was turned down by every agency she approached for two years; her parents urged her to take up computer science jobs.
Scott had, however, put her picture on the website Models.com, and in 2008 she was contacted by Click Model Management of New York City. Elle Girl featured her in a video about the day of a fashion model, including some of her Click new model training. She was then 24, which was considered old for a model. The agency asked her to trim five years from her age, and for her first few years modeling she claimed to have been born in 1990.
Even with an agency contract, Scott wasn't immediately successful. In early 2009 Scott's work was handing out flyers on a street corner when she got a call from fashion house Calvin Klein. During New York Fashion Week, she became the first black model to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein. Bethann Hardison said that no model in recent history had made such an impact.
Other prestigious modeling jobs followed: in her first years as a model, she modeled for Vera Wang, DKNY, Baby Phat, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and appeared in the magazines Italian Elle, Teen Vogue, and W. Style.com listed her as a top 10 newcomer. In the 2010 fall NYFW, she was the only black model walking runways for Prada. She also changed agencies to Elite Model Management, which was more accepting of her actual age.
In December 2013, Scott responded to a question on Quora, the question and answer website, about "What does it feel like to go from physically unattractive to attractive?". She wrote about being awkward and bullied in high school, then getting model looks after college, and the advantages and problems that came with that, while still programming in taped glasses at home. Her answer was reprinted in Slate, Business Insider, and PopSugar.
Until that time, Scott had kept her programming separate from her modeling. That Quora post drew attention to her programming skills; from then on, she was covered as the model with a secret identity as a coder. Others credited her with disproving the stereotypes that fashion models had no brains, and computer programmers were pasty-faced geeks. The fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar combined her passions by asking her to report on the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and Maria Shriver asked her to detail her favorite mobile apps for NBC News.
Lyndsey Scott