Bettie Page Reveals All Page #4
I didn't want to see him again
because he had deceived me.
But if I had known he was married
be a fashion model.
And I went to... let's see, what was
the name of the most famous one?
Ford, that's it.
She says, "Oh, my."
She says, "You would never
do as a fashion model."
She says, "In the first place,
you're not tall enough."
But she says, "More than that,"
she says, "you're too hippy."
You've got to be skin
and bones, you know.
Even back then, to
be a fashion model.
In October 1950, I was
walking out on Coney Island.
Nobody was on the
beach in that area,
except this black
fella, Jerry Tibbs.
He gave me his card and he said,
"I'm a Brooklyn policeman."
He said, "I think you'd
make a good pinup model."
He said, "I have a studio,
if you would come over there
free of charge, I'll
make you up a portfolio
that you could take
around to the studios."
I posed in a couple
of bikinis of his.
But he said, "Bettie, have you
ever tried to wear bangs?"
He said, "You have a very high forehead,
I think you'd look good in bangs."
So I went home and cut me some.
And I've been wearing them ever since,
its sort of been a trademark of mine,
That's that famous
Bettie Page look, isn't it?
when I started modeling,
but I looked much younger.
All of the writers and editors
would say I was 22 years old,
they were saying that for
years that I was 22.
I never refuted it, I never said
anything one way or another,
let them think what they wanted to.
was for the camera clubs.
First one was Cass Carr who
was an orchestra leader.
Every Sunday we'd
say we're going out
to Headly Farm in New
Jersey or some other farm,
or we're going out to Fire
Bettie Page and four other amateur
models will be with them,
and it would cost ten
dollars or five dollars.
or 40 camera club members
and three or four models.
We would go on field
trips, on weekends,
upstate New York,
over in New Jersey,
on the beaches,
especially on Fire Island.
I got 25 dollars a day.
And we would be gone all afternoon
and I enjoyed the
outings very much.
They were always polite
and courteous to us.
It was absolutely fun
photographing Bettie.
shows up in the photographs,
that she enjoyed it too.
She was happy.
She was exhilarated.
She projected.
She came right out at you.
Whereas others were just pretty.
When she turned, she didn't
just turn and smile,
her hands, her body, her feet,
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