Virginie Ledoyen

Born in Aubervilliers, Paris as Virginie Fernandez, Virginie Ledoyen is a French actress. Her career began at a very early age of two. At the age of two she became a print model and this is when she took on the stage name “Ledoyen”. The name was a tribute to her maternal grandmother’s maiden name who also was a stage actress. It was in 1995 when she made a name with “La Fille seule” and received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also received two more César Award nominations for “Les marmottes” in 1993 and “L’eau froide” in 1994.

Virginie is seen in roles outside of France like her appearance in “The Beach” in 2000. The same year later in the fall, she became a spokes model with a signed contract with “L’Oréal”. 2000 was a busy year which she is also seen on the magazine covers of Cosmopolitan February 2000. She was on the covers of both FHM and Glamour March 2000 as well as Vogue (Spain) March 2006.

Carla Gugino

Another actress Carla Gugino is known for her parts as Sally Jupiter in “Watchmen”, Vincent Chase’s agent, Amanda, in the third season of “Entourage”, Ingrid Cortez in the “Spy Kids” movie trilogy and as the lead stars of the TV series “Karen Sisco and Threshold”. Carla was always an achiever even in her younger years. She was a straight A student and even graduated valedictorian. It wasn’t until she was 15 when she caught the attention of a modeling agency in San Diego. This is when she made her move to New York.

Her career as an actress can been seen in TV shows such as “ALF”, “Doogie Howser, M.D.”, “Saved by the Bell”, “Who's the Boss?”, “The Wonder Years” and even the last season of “Chicago Hope” as brain surgeon Dr. Gina Simon. She even played recent roles in movies such as “Night at the Museum” (2006) and “American Gangster” (2007). Carla has made appearances in two music videos which were Bon Jovi’s “Always” (1994) and an Aerosmith video. She is also on the magazine cover of “Women’s Health” March 2009 issue. See as Carla makes a big hit as a classy lady in a red vinyl looking dress.

Krista Allen

Actress Krista Allen is better known for parts as Billie Reed on “Days of our Lives” between 1996–1999, Crystal Clark “Calendar Girl” which was man transformed into a female on “Married with Children” (1996), Jenna Avid on “Baywatch Hawaii” between 2000–2001 and as Bridget on “What About Brian” between 2006–2007. In the movies, she is known for being in Liar Liar as the “Elevator Girl” (1997), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Anger Management (2003) and The Final Destination (2009).

In addition to being in “Feast” the Project Greenlight thriller movie, she has played most of her roles as a sex symbol. In 1994, she takes the main character in an erotic series of “Emmanuelle in Space”. In “The X-Files”, she stars as a sexy virtual reality character Maitreya/Jade Blue Afterglow in an episode. Then in “Mutant X” and “Smallville” she dominated men with her sex pheromones. For three episodes in 2001, she makes a guest appearance in the supernatural television series “Charmed” as “The Oracle”. She even plays a small part as Kristy Hopkins in “CSI” as a hooker who catches the attention of Nick Stokes. This was the pilot episode on October 6, 2000 and even makes return on the first season as a murder victim.

With the many roles she’s played as a sex symbol, we can’t complain but, a different story for Krista. In 2005, she became a star on the HBO’s Unscripted playing herself as an actress who struggles to break out of the sex symbol status reputation so that she can have an opportunity for more serious parts. As for her sex symbol status, she is seen on the magazine covers of “Stuff” November 2000 & February 2003 issues. She even made a feature appearance on “Maxim” magazine’s Girls of Maxim gallery and made #70 on their “Hot 100 of 2005” list.

Aside from her acting, she has a t-shirt line called “SuperEXellent” and has appeared in Toby Keith’s video “A Little Too Late”. For her recent appearance on June 7, 2009, she is seen on the second season of “Denise Richards: It's Complicated”. (See my past entry for Denise Richards) In the photos shown, she is featured in Stuff 2003 photo shoot in a vinyl looking outfit.

Julia Stegner

As for my final posting of the week and this special week of poll favorites under the The Fetish Models/Fashion category I present Julia Stegner. She is currently just a German model. When she was younger, for seven years she experienced a modeling background doing commercials, children’s catalogs and of course a child model. For nine years, she trained in dance. It wasn’t until a few days before her 15^th birthday celebrating her hometown Oktoberfest when she also caught the attention of a talent scout who saw a future potential in her as a model. This is when “Tilla Lindig” a Munich and London company booked her for work.

Her newly found career began to move fast. She began a deal with Supreme Management and in four months time she opened for the fall 2003 Yves Saint Laurent show as well as Strenesse and Sportmax campaigns that same year. By the summer of 2004 came around, she had done ad work for big name companies such as Celine, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren and Dior. In addition, she was the Hugo Boss house model for a few seasons. In 2005, she was in the French fashion house campaign for Chloé and shows like Anna Sui, Lanvin, Gucci, Versace and Valentino. Since 2005, she has been in Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows every year to date.

Also in 2005, she modeled for the “Pirelli” calendar half-nude. Other work she has done was print and runways for the fur industry. She wore fur clothing for the “American Legend Minks” as well as other companies. She became the face of Aquascutum, Guerlain KissKiss, Femme, Hugo Boss Eyewear and the Hugo Boss perfume. Then in 2008, she was the face of Maybelline and Gianfranco Ferré. The next year in 2009, she once again became the face for Mercedes Benz advertising. Interesting that she did work for Mercedes Benz that one would expect her to drive one to work but, believe it or not, she rides a bicycle to work. I assume it’s one of her excuses in maintaining her model physique.

She made her first major magazine cover debut in Paris for Elle. Julia is seen on the cover of many editions of Vogue such as the French, Italian, Nippon, and German editions. A few covers in Vogue alone include Vogue (Paris) 2005, German editions of April 2006, January 2008 and December 2008, (Spain) November 2008 and (Manila) January 2011. A few other magazine covers she’s been on are Elle December 2002 & September 2003, Vanity Fair (Germany) July 2007, W (Korea) September 2008, Numéro (Tokyo) November 2008, and Amica (Germany) May 2009. The photo of Julia wearing the latex opera gloves is from the front cover of "Tush" magazine in 2007. The other picture is from a catwalk the same year on February 28, 2007 where just about all the models wore latex stockings. The show was the Hussein Chalayan Fall/Winter Ready-to-wear event held in Paris.

Lily Cole

British model Lily Cole is also an actress. The beginning of her career began when by luck she caught the eye of scout who turned actor, Benjamin Hart. He enquired her about modeling on the streets of Soho, London. At first a bit skeptical and turning down the offer, she later had a change of thought and ended up signing a deal with the agency “Storm Models”. This particular agency happened to be the mother agency of models and included celeb Kate Moss which can be seen in my past entry.

This was only the beginning as in 2003, photographer Steven Meisel had Lily on that photo shoot as the first “only girl” story for Italian Vogue. This shoot was distinct in that way that she became discovered as one of the leading new faces of the year. In late 2004 in November, she gained the title as “Model of the Year” during the British Fashion Awards.

Her name began catching attention as she modeled on international runway circuits and top name companies such as Chanel, DKNY, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Louis Vuitton. Her demand in magazines has placed her in many well known fashion magazines such as Citizen K, V and even Vogue seven times. She’s conquered Vogue internationally in the American, Italian, British, Japanese and Korean versions. She’s made the cover of Vogue in four different languages, three covers of Vogue (UK) as well as Vogue July 2007 and Vogue 2008 issues. Vogue couldn’t get enough of her that in December 2005 that they featured her in their “best dressed” list. Other cover sightings include Arena May 2007, Harper’s Bazaar (UK) October 2009 & (Ukraine) December 2009, Elle (Canada) January 2010, Numéro and V. In 2007, she made her nude debut photographed fully naked by Juergen Teller in a shoot for Paradis. This was a French men's magazine and wasn’t the last of the nude modeling. The following year in October 2008, she appeared nude on the magazine cover this time for Playboy (France). This raised eyebrows as a minor controversy in 2008 for her nude posing in Playboy’s pictorial. As for her recent magazine work, she appears in as January 2010 edition of Interview.

As an actress, she played a small part in Girls Aloud/Sugababes music video cover of “Walk This Way”. The video was based on helping the British telethon charity Comic Relief by walking a catwalk in ridiculously funny ways interspersed by the bands and a few famous British TV personalities. In February 2006, Marilyn Manson announced he wanted Lily as the character Alice for his movie “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll”. As for other movies set to be released this year, she plays another small part as Aline in “There Be Dragons” and “Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries”.

It was during April 2007 when the “Sunday Times” Rich List first featured her for being worth £6 million in the UK. This made her the 77th richest young person in Britain. Last year in 2009, she was estimated to be worth over £11 million. Currently, she models for the Marks and Spencer clothes advertising campaign once again to earn the title as the youngest model to ever do a campaign for the line.

The first three pictures of Lily Cole in latex stockings and hotpants were from the Life Ball in 2008. Agent Provocateur was the sponsor that year for Vienna’s annual charity gala that supports AIDS research. Supposedly Kate Moss was a no show for the event so Lily got to model the latex stockings and hotpants on the runway. The other photos are pictures from the Citizen K magazine that features Lily in high fashion with latex stockings. She even wears vinyl gloves in one picture.

Heidi Klum

How could we forget popular Victoria's Secret Angel Heidi Klum. She has a wide variety of talents that has made her successful in her career such as being a German American model, actress, fashion designer, artist, an occasional singer, TV host/ producer and of course it all comes down to being a business woman. On May 10, 2005, she married singer Seal on a beach in Mexico. Recently on November 21, 2009, she took on the surname of her husband officially and is now legally known as Heidi Samuel. I ask, why would she want to do that!? On that note, she hasn’t officially decided if she will use the name professionally or keep her maiden name as her stage name.

Her career began when a friend of hers convinced her to compete in a national modeling contest called “Model 92”. By April 29, 1992, she won out of a pool of 25,000 models. She was rewarded a modeling contract worth $300,000 by Thomas Zeumer, CEO of Metropolitan Models New York. From 1999 to 2006, at the same time doing Sports Illustrated shoots for world class photographers, she was used to model in several editions for Joanne Gair body painting works. She even wrote the foreword to Joanne’s book of body paint work.

As for marketing, she has released two fragrances by the name of “Heidi Klum” and “Me”. Her talents have led her to design makeup for Victoria's Secret for their “Very Sexy Makeup Collection” which happened to be called “The Heidi Klum Collection”. The first run launched in Fall 2007 while the second was released the next fall later. She was also one of the designers for the Victoria's Secret lingerie line “The Body”. The name was derived from her nickname from her first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show appearance. She has done other designs for shoes for Birkenstock, jewelry for Mouawad, swimsuits that were featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and a clothing line for Jordache.

To name a few, she even became a spokes model for major companies such as McDonald's, Braun, H & M, and Liz Claiborne. Along with her celebrity status, she is a current spokes model for Jordache and Volkswagen. No stranger to Volkswagen, in 2008 she became a featured guest on the American Volkswagen commercial. In the commercial she is interviewed by a black Beetle. In her response, she comments that German engineering is so sexy causing the Beetle to blush and turn red. In addition, she has done many commercials for Volkswagen and McDonald's on German TV.

Heidi also has a large presence on television shows as well. Supplemented to her modeling work, she is seen in “Malcolm in the Middle” as a toothless hockey player and “Cursed”. Her guest appearances as herself include shows like Spin City, Sex and the City, CSI: Miami, How I Met Your Mother and Yes, Dear. Even on April 1, 2009 I remember watching Heidi on a CBS April Fool’s Day special “I Get That a Lot”. To be a little bit biased, she actually played the best joke next to LeAnn Rimes that night. She acted as an ordinary girl working at a pizza shop. All jokes aside, Heidi is the host, a judge, and co-producer of Germany's Next Topmodel with Tyra Banks. She even is used as a model and a voice for the video game “James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing” for the character of Katya Nadanova.

As for magazine covers, she is seen on fashion magazines of GQ October 2004 & September 2008, Jane August 2006, Esquire September 2006, Amica December 2007, Marie Claire June 2008, Forbes June 30, 2008, W July 2008, Vogue (Germany) June 2009, Playboy (Brazil), Elle, Instyle and Self. Her better known cover appearances came from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and her work with Victoria's Secret as an “Angel”. In July 2007, Forbes rated her as #3 on their list of the World’s 15 Top-Earning Supermodels for earning $8 million in the past year. The next year later in 2008, she moved up to #2 for having an estimated $14 million. With her steak growing hot by the year, in 2009 Forbes once again accesses her income to be at $16 million and is signed to IMG Models in New York City.

On Tuesday, Dec. 1 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, Heidi hosted the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. I believe the pictures of her in a black latex bustier and skirt was from the preshow. The other pictures of her in a unique black and white latex dress are from the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show after party at M2 Ultra Lounge in New York City on November 19, 2009. Once again, view my past posting titled “Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2009 - Colorful Getaway” December 02, 2009 to see more of fashion show that she hosted. I have to admit, these Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show are getting better and better every year if they keep bring latex wear in to modern fashion.

Tyra Banks

I’ve known today’s mainstream old school Victoria's Secret super models for a long time. It was a pleasant treat to see them in a rare sighting in latex. I guess they aren’t such angels after all. Just mentioning yesterday about America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks was the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality TV show. She is now an ex model, media personality, actress, occasional singer and a businesswoman.

When she was in the 11th grade, she started modeling. Her experience on runway modeling took place in Paris, France. It wasn’t long before designers were noticed her talent on the runway that she got a deal for 25 shows within her first week in Paris. This eventually became a record in the industry for a beginner. Before she knew it, she gained fame as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo and New York. It was mainly her TV appearances that really ignited her commercial breakthrough.

Tyra’s conquered print and/or runway work for fashion/advertising companies such as Anna Sui, Coors Light, CoverGirl, Badgley Mischka, Bill Blass, Cynthia Rowley, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Gemma Kahng, H&M, Isaac Mizrahi, Maria Snyder, McDonald's, Aislinn Dubois Modeling Agency, Michael Kors, Milk, Nicole Miller, Nike, Inc., Oscar de la Renta, Pepsi, Perry Ellis, Randy Kemper, Richard Tyler, Rifat Ozbek, Swatch, Todd Oldham, Tommy Hilfiger, Yves Saint Laurent and of course Victoria's Secret. She has even dominated high-fashion magazine covers like Elle December 1994, GQ 2000, Lucky June 2006, Essence February 2008, Ebony December 2008, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. She even holds the title as the first African American woman to appear on the covers of GQ, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and in 1997 for the Victoria's Secret catalog.

The same year she debuted of the Victoria's Secret catalog, VH1 awarded her for the Supermodel of the Year. Around this time she began making her presence in the music industry appearing in a number of music videos such as Michael Jackson’s “Black or White”, Tina Turner’s (See Past Posting)“Love Thing”, Mobb Deep’s “Trife Life” and George Michael’s “Too Funky” (done with supermodel Linda Evangelista as well as see my other posting of her). It was in 2004 when she debuted her single “Shake Ya Body”. The music video included the final six contestants of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 2.

In 1998, she released a book titled “Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out”. The books purpose was to be a reference in helping women to make the most out of their natural beauty. She was also the co-creator of True Beauty. By May 2005, she retired from modeling to dedicate more time to her TV career. She made her final walk on the runway at the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

As for her recent TV work, she is the hostess, judge and executive producer of The CW Television Network show America's Next Top Model. On September 12, 2005 she hosted her own talk show “The Tyra Banks Show” which was a daytime talk show directed to a younger audience of women. As for her movie screenings, she’s played roles in movies such as Love Stinks (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000) and Halloween: Resurrection (2002). See how stunning she looks in a rare beautiful orange latex dress sighting.

Bernie Dexter

Bernie Dexter another pin-up model definitely has what it takes to be queen of pin-ups. When she was 18 just like Dita Von Teese she too began her career. This is when she won the Miss Teen San Diego County and carried on her dreams to a career in acting and modeling. During 2002 on one of her shoots, she had herself photographed. After the self photography, she submitted the photographs to the “Viva Las Vegas” pin-up contest. After her response from the contest and getting an overwhelming positive feedback, she decided to dedicate her time to being a pin-up model. On March 7, 2008, a German tabloid Bild wrote an article stating Bernie as “The queen of pin-ups”. (die Königin des Pin-ups) The tabloid then questioned if she is the new Dita Von Teese. The rest is history as you can see from the photo gallery of her work below. Bernie is also on the covers of adult magazines such as Playboy (Italy) and Penthouse.

Dita Von Teese

Today’s entries I present the pin-up ladies of models. Birth name Heather Renée Sweet better known as Dita Von Teese is an Armenian-American burlesque artist, model and actress. Her work has granted her the reputation as “The Queen of Burlesque”. When she turned eighteen, she kicked her career off at a local strip club. Around this time, she tried out some glamour modeling and in college studied historic costuming and wanted to do work as a stylist for period movies. Her experience made her a trained costume designer, designing as well as copyrighting photo shoots herself.

Her looks in photo shoots were very similar to Bettie Page and it was her retro pin-up look that distinguished her unique from other fetish models. One thing I agree on is her listing on a few best-dressed lists. Her fashion and taste usually land her on the front row of fashion shows. Two of the shows include Christian Dior and Marc Jacobs which she is usually seen wearing the line. In 2006, she became a guest on an episode of America's Next Top Model cycle 7 on a workshop to give advice to contestants on being sexy with burlesque dancing and posing. Then in 2007, she made an adult entertainment performance at the Erotica 07 event in London.

Her fame eventually reached out to the music industry in 2008 when the German metal band “Atrocity” wanted her to be on their cover album of Werk 80 II. She is has been in a few music videos as well which include Green Day’s “Redundant”, swing band Royal Crown Revue’s “Zip Gun Bop”, Agent Provocateur's “She's Lost Control” and Marilyn Manson’s Martini Glass burlesque for “Mobscene”. Later on Marilyn Manson had a relationship with Dita and the marriage eventually failed.

Dita can easily be seen in a number of magazine covers such as Loaded January 2005, Vegas February 2006, Penthouse April 2007, Harpers Bazaar (Russia) December 2009 as well as appearances in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle, and international issues of just about every fashion magazine. She became a major feature for Playboy in 1999, 2001 and December 2002 “The Return of Fetish” cover including a cover-featured pictorial in 2002. As a fetish model, she even screams sexy in fetish magazine covers such as “Bizarre” August 2008 and “Marquis”. Many of these pictures are included in today’s posting below. She is even seen in 2007 on Maxim Online.com.

A few other facts about Dita are that she’s spoken about a few lesbian experiences including when she was 20 having a long-term relationship with a woman. She is also open about her plastic surgery with both breasts and her beauty mark added on. She has been involved with the PETA's campaign “Animal Birth Control (ABC)” and even supported their ads. With her recent work, she has done work designing a new lingerie range for “Wonderbra”.

Sheyla Hershey

Sheyla Hershey is my other unique Brazilian adult model, singer and TV personality. She is better known for her gargantuan breast implants having the title of the largest augmentated breasts in Brazil and Latin America. It all started at a young age when she was a young girl. She had dreams of wanting to be just like American country music star Dolly Parton. Past experiences from high school on being overweight, unattractive and having a low self-esteem became the catalyst of her dramatic life changing accessory.

It was in 2002 when she went through a number of plastic surgery operations for liposuction, lip augmentation and of course her notorious breast implants. Coming out of 25 surgeries, she satisfactory achieved the dream Barbie doll slim model look. Since May of 2008 after 8 operations she had a monster breast size of 34FFF with 2000 cc of silicone in her breasts. At this time she caught the attention of the media around the world for her lack of satisfaction for the 34FFF. As they say in Texas…”Everything is BIGGER and BETTER in Texas!”…Texas law prohibited her from increasing the size of her breast another size. She really wanted to get 3000 cc silicone implants.

Disappointed with her size and the law of Texas on July 28, 2008, she made her next enlargement in Brazil. This time she had 3500cc silicone implants installed giving her a KKK cup. Going too far and clearly an addiction, on October 2008 she ballooned her bust size to a 5,500 cc which comes out to be a MMM cup. This hands down won her the title of the bustiest woman in Latin America.

Since her breast enlargements, she’s worked in the U.S. as a model and an actress. She is seen in NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and is expected to be appearing in future movies. Her situation has caught the public attention on national TV shows, “Fox News” and “The Insider” entertainment show on CBS. When she went through the surgery, The Insider was there to tape it for a part of an upcoming reality show. Since, she has received a lot of criticism for her decision. Even The Insider scheduled an “intervention” with plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Rey of "Dr. 90210".

Now with a current breast size of KKK, she has been awarded with the Brazilian version of the Guinness Book of World records award and their edition gave her the title of owning the largest augmentated breasts in Brazil. Just in case you thought she was all boobs and no brains, she is also multilingual knowing languages of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and English. I had pondered, where does one find bras for those investments? Well, I realized from the photos that her in latex were the only thing stretchable to hold those watermelons. Looks like latex has more than one use other than just flawless sexiness. Check her out at the video link to her summer coming movie “Operation HAVOC”. The trailer for this movie shows her all in latex as well as a fantasy world of everyone in latex as a super spy. She plays the character Sheyla Almeida and kicks latex thug’s ass in an ultra low budget latex filled action flick. It’s a wonder how she runs around with two bald headed midgets in her latex outfit but, entertaining I must say.

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