Craig Taylor 

Are you happy?

Ritchy Bezuidenhoudt, life model.
  
  


I enjoy every second of the experience, even if it lasts four hours. Some of the faces of the artists are concentrating, some are happy. They want a good end product and hopefully I can help them. I think about nice things while I'm modelling. I'm standing or sitting there nude. Sometimes I'm sitting like a tiger ready to pounce. I imagine myself on a Caribbean island, or being America's Top Model in five years.

Back home in Namibia life modelling would be seen as something bad. In this job, you've got to be careful of people who want to touch you, play with you. I've learned not to get into that situation. I'm nosy with the art. I want to see the end product. Sometimes I come across as innocent and sincere in the artwork. In one I looked unfriendly. Sometimes they want me to start crying. If I'm feeling down the tears will flow. But I am a naturally happy person. I am single but I have my pole dancing and my studies to fill my time. If you spend your time looking, you're looking for trouble.

Artists don't capture my eyes. They are very revealing. I'm a revealing person, a funny character, a sensitive type. The only time I've been unhappy modelling was when someone asked me if I was really that slim, and not in a nice way. But how can I be unhappy in life? I'm alive. My family is far away but still alive. Besides, I'm a good life model. I'm not shy. I never get an itchy nose.

 

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