Calendar Girl Blog: My Echo Magazine Cover Girl Story
Chris from Breast Stories wondered if I am on the cover of the Echo Magazine in this blogs sidebar.
The short answer is yes.
My principle photographer, Melanie Gillis, thought it would be cool to put me on a roof top in downtown Guelph, sporting some duds and accessories from one of my calendar vendors On the Verge.
Of course the photo op required me to be topfree.
And plastered up with 'natural looking' makeup. (I digress, but, how does putting makeup on make your natural, non-made up face look more natural?) Anyhow, the makeup was strangely more disconcerting than not wearing a top. Especially when the store owner, Kathy, whom I've known and done business with for years, didn't recognize me when I arrived to get fitted for the shoot.
The published cover got mixed reactions.
I loved it. At 45, I figured, being saucy and bold and a cover girl was pretty much fun with a capital F.
Some of my friends (?) were um...unsure.
Regardless, I've got a copy hanging in my front entrance at home. And my brother took it to his baseball practice. He likes bragging about his artsy baby sister.
Calendar Girl tries to take opportunities when they present themselves even though she is as introverted as she is extroverted.
Calendar Girl
The short answer is yes.
My principle photographer, Melanie Gillis, thought it would be cool to put me on a roof top in downtown Guelph, sporting some duds and accessories from one of my calendar vendors On the Verge.
Of course the photo op required me to be topfree.
And plastered up with 'natural looking' makeup. (I digress, but, how does putting makeup on make your natural, non-made up face look more natural?) Anyhow, the makeup was strangely more disconcerting than not wearing a top. Especially when the store owner, Kathy, whom I've known and done business with for years, didn't recognize me when I arrived to get fitted for the shoot.
The published cover got mixed reactions.
I loved it. At 45, I figured, being saucy and bold and a cover girl was pretty much fun with a capital F.
Some of my friends (?) were um...unsure.
Regardless, I've got a copy hanging in my front entrance at home. And my brother took it to his baseball practice. He likes bragging about his artsy baby sister.
Calendar Girl tries to take opportunities when they present themselves even though she is as introverted as she is extroverted.
Calendar Girl
posted by Sue Richards at 1:58 PM
3 Comments:
I'm still struggling to understand why your friends would be ".... usure." I can well believe they would be. I have seen this uncertainty lots of times - even in my own family of women.
But I'm not sure what it is about. I get a glimpse of it in my thinking about it but then it goes away again.
I don't think many people wold find the cover offensive.
It sounds like it was a great experience for you. It's certainly bold and sassy.
I like the idea of being both introverted and extroverted at the same time. More thoughts at chriscurnow.com.
I love it, there is definitely a career for you as a Cover Girl.
Congratulations on your contribution, and on your frankness.
Michael
I plan to be a cover girl at least one more time....if I'm still a publisher that is.
Thanks for your comments gentlemen.
Sue
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