About my work

    IN FRONT OF THE LENS:

    Twenty-years ago Marilyn Monroe was able to go into the business because she was selling the voluptuous, yet sweetly-innocent sex-goddess "look." Today you have to be stick-skinny, and tall as a lamp-pole to even think about going in front of the lens. A model's greatest fear is FAT. Sorry Marilyn, if you were born today, you'd be flipping burgers at McDonald's.
    As for me, I'm 171 cm ( 5'7''), which is as tall as Kate Moss, and look how short she is compared to other models. My weight is 53 kg. ( 117 lbs.) which is almost 5 kg. more than Kate, to really be a true fashion model, I'd have to loose more, but I can't. If I am below 50 kg. I'd faint and feel too weak to even function as a human being (I don't believe in dieting i.e.. starving myself to the bones). I eat when I'm hungry, and no snacking since Thailand has so much food available 24 hours a day; I'd be fatter than Babe's mom if I allow my taste buds to run my life. I also have the pear body shape (great for child birth, horrid for modeling). As for the face I'm born with, I've learned to manipulate it into so many interesting moods by using mostly the eyes and the lips. It's acting in a way, and it's a lot of fun, when I have a creative stylist. But most of the time, since Thailand's taste is on the conservative side, meaning the market likes pretty faces, pretty background, pretty clothing and just a plain pretty picture, that's exactly what I give them. No sexy pout. No vamp. No grudge: My face looks silly styled that way, and the Thai public don't like it. Besides I have a life outside of striking a pose for the camera. I have to... fashion is never stable. In today, out tomorrow.

    Q: Why don't you do catwalks like other models? And if you don't do catwalks, what are you mostly doing now?

    Answer: Did it once, didn't like it. Imagine this, bright spotlights in your face, cameras shooting away blinding you like a thousand lightning flashes and you walking and staring away into space like they don't exist (no wonder why models don't smile). My first crack at it, I was given high heels two sizes larger than my feet (felt like a two-year-old in mom's shoes), told to strip in front of other male, female models, hairdressers, cameramen, makeup artists and designers. Not only is this embarrassing but it's also very cold standing there in your underwear. My new niche in the fashion scene is M.C. work (Master of Ceremony). But the good part of my work is that I do other things outside of fashion. M.C. for ASEAN, Tourism, promoting new products, new cars, a VIP's retirement, birthdays, anniversaries, International companies: Dutch Boy paint, Phillips, Texas Instrument, American Standard, Manager Media Group, etc.... It's a great way to get to know the movers and shakers coming and moving up inside Bangkok and the pay is ten times more than modeling. I also get less colds this way too ; )

    Q: You studied journalism in the US., are you currently writing in Thailand?

    Answer: It's kind of difficult to write about others when one is written about so often. (Rule no. 1, a reporter should not BE the news). But I am teaching and writing for a monthly magazine (Pu Ying One Nee or Today's Women) for the last two years. I taught because I like the University atmosphere. I taught for one term at Bangkok University, but that didn't last long because it took four hours of driving back and fourth to my house in Bangkok's notorious traffic jam and I taught for only two hours. Last term, I taught at Chulalongkorn University, but they don't have an English course offered this term, so I am now using more of my time on the Internet.

    Q: How do you stay so thin? Does eating certain proteins make one taller and more beautiful?

    Answer: It's all in the genes. My parents were both skinny people when they were my age. But as they age and their metabolism slowed down, they now both look like they are six months pregnant, especially my dad. Never heard of the tall and beautiful protein, who ever has the patent for that will make a huge profit. This is also in the genes, go read about Gregory Mendel and his yellow and green peas for more information about that last one.

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