My How She's Grown #3 (Models - September/October 1975) Colleen started going to the Professional Children's School in Manhattan when she first started as a Ford model in 1959. $75 in 1975 would be the equivalent of $300 today. At that rate, a 40 hour work week would garner Colleen $12,000 each week or $624,000 a year in today's money.