My Life With Naked Ladies

    by Gern Blanson

Heather Collins

 Back in the days when I first started shooting, models had husbands or boyfriends who disliked them posing nude for some goddam naked magazine. I guess it was an ” those tits are for my eyes only” attitude”

 .. It was a big tell when a model got busted by her boyfriend or husband that that relationship was on the rocks anyway and had nothing to do with the photographer (well usually nothing…ha ha ha) Afterall I was usually only shooting a nude layout of his girlfriend. But some boyfriends didn’t see it that way.

    Now days not the boyfriends, but mostly husbands bring the better half into the business and put her to work. They take all the money and brag about it. No problem for me. Sometimes when the husbands come to pick up their wives, we joke around about how hot their women are.

     In the earlier days, I had plenty of close calls when the suspicious husband found that card with a list of photographers, the lady in question had a nice set of DD tits, and my name was at the top of the list. Often late at night I would get THE CALL.: I am goanna kill you man! you better tear up those god dam pictures OR I AM GONNA TEAR OFF YOUR LEGS. It didn’t take me too long before I changed my interviews with models.

     One of my first questions to any model: Are you married? Does your husband know you are modeling nude? One of the big give aways was when the model says “please don’t say modeling when you leave message. Just leave you name and number and I will call you back. As least they give you fare warning.

     But the psycho models plan it that way. They live so much in the moment they don’t even think it will get back to hubby, or dont care. Nude modeling is a transition type of work. Wifes or girlfriends leaving husbands or boyfriends, single women out of work, high schools grads looking for their first job, Girls who don’t want to work at McDonalds or Jack in the box, or work there and find out they can make a weeks pay in 6 hrs. of modeling. Once they do that they are ruined. Real work is just too hard. I am talking about California Valley girls in the 70’s 80’s 90’s finding nude models in that time was really a California experience only. Three agencies found almost all of the girls who appeared in all of them men’s magazines of that time. I mean ninety percent came from the L.A. area. With two agencies in Hollywood and one in the San Fernando Valley, bird dogging all of them fighting over who would get them to the best photographers first and get them as much work as they could before they burned out on posing.

Yur Friend Gern

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