Jessica Davies on Life After Being a Glamour Model!
Wales Online did a nice interview and profile on former glamour model Jessica Davies, who’s been posted on Boobie Blog many times(Click here for all that stuff), and on life after her career of posing topless was over. Here is the start of the article and a link at the bottom if you want to continue reading:
By 25, most people are getting settled into their careers. But Welsh glamour model Jessica Davies is now having to look for her next career. Her job took her around the world, led her to live the high life. But, when the lads mags closed and the shoots stopped, she was dropped back to reality and was working back in a pub in her hometown.
Jessica had never dreamed of being a glamour model. In fact, the first time she was asked to remove her bra in a photoshoot, she said she refused. That anxiety is long gone and she has a hefty catalogue of work to her name.
But, with the decline of the lads mags, and the change in the industry, the work has now stopped. And, aged 25, she’s in the position of needing to come up with a second career because her first has already ended.
Her modelling journey had started aged 14 when Jessica went to The Clothes Show in Birmingham where she was spotted and was put forward for a competition called Teen Queen.
Jessica, originally from Aberystwyth but now living in Cardiff, went with her Dad to a shoot and knew straight away that she wanted to be a model.
Aged 16, she entered Miss Wales. At the pageants, she was routinely told she should consider modelling and aged 17, found an agency in London.
It was a year later when glamour modelling was first mentioned to her. The reason, quite simply, was the size of her breasts.
“You never see fashion models that have big boobs,” she says.
To begin with, she didn’t remove her bra, but knew the discussion would come up. She told her agency she wouldn’t go topless, which they adhered to.
“It’s one of those things. At the time, because I hadn’t done it, I didn’t think anything of it. I thought I would tackle it when it came to it,” she said. “I thought ‘I can’t do that, or I don’t want to’ and then I had a boyfriend and he didn’t like it.”
While on a shoot, the photographer said ‘ok, take your bra off now’. I said I don’t do that, I phoned my agent and she said ‘you’re there now’.
“I didn’t do it then and it was really awkward. I was the new girl, I didn’t know anyone and I had to stand there. But, it was a female photographer, and she was more understanding.”
Rather than losing her work, it had the opposite effect. The then lads mags started bidding to get her for an exclusive, first shoot. She went for Zoo, because of the funds, and had to warn her family.
“It was all a bit awkward but I never remember having the conversation. I am really lucky they are supportive, and never really said anything negative about it,” said Jessica.
Weeks after the shoot, the magazine came out and, then a student, she went with friends to buy a copy to see the four-page spread.
She still has a copy on her coffee table, from October 2012 which has on the front the “Amazing Zoo discovery…Jessica Davies topless for the first time”…….
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT WALES ONLINE
December 4th, 2018
Posted in Articles, Jessica Davies
One of my fav “girl next door” types, didn’t realize the “lad mag” armageddon affected the models so much.
I would have figured the high profile models would still have their own sites to get by on?
It’s there own fault. Didn’t speak up when stupid bitches were ruining the world…They literally let the worst of their own kind destroy them…Newsflash, it wasn’t men who ruined it…