Not really, the primary beneficiaries are the customers, just the same as with restaurants, cars or any other product. Magazines make a profit and models might or might not get something out of it. Many websites stole the pictures (as with revenge porn) and many magazines barely pay the models.

As for people noticing you, it is possible that it already happen. Just not the people you would like to notice and they are not showing the way you would like. It is quite possible that old ladies notice. Some would be discreet, others not so much. But at least none would assume that they can tell you to smile more or how to dress. Correction, some would and it would be as annoying as it is for me. Think about cougars with 20 something or much older women on tinder/a bar where they go to “hunt”. XD

I always felt that men two or more decades older than me leering when I walked past was disgusting and uncomfortable. Nothing there for me. Point is, models (both women and men) might profit sometimes from their looks (the more successful ones), but for the majority, is not that great. Basically is the same experience you have: the people you would like to notice doesn’t, while the people who notice, are the ones you wish didn’t see you at all.

There is beauty privilege both for men and women, but is not as clear cut as “people paying you for being beautiful” unless you work as an actor/actress or modeling. Anyway, others benefit indirectly from looking at beautiful people, cinema shows this clearly. It is just that we are not Scarlet or a Chris. XD