Nudge Hall of Fame: Laetitia Casta

In the 90s you could not find a magazine that did not have this Nudge Hall of Famer, Laetitia Casta, on it. Whether it be a man's magazine, such as Victoria Secret...wait that's a woman's magazine right?...to music magazines (see Rolling Stone below), Laetitia Casta has graced them all. Countless weeks I sprinted home from school just so I could "flip" through my mom's Victoria Secret issue before she could hide it on me and my dad.

LC brought back the fading vulumptous, Monroe look with her curvy shape in the 90's. Her look completely shook up era of modeling where hot was considered being a skinny coke addicted "waif" model (I.e. Kate Moss).

Aside from her looks Casta's discovery is, to me, a great story in itself...

"When she was fifteen, she was discovered while vacationing with her family on a beach in Corsica, also named "the island of beauty" in France.She was making sand castles with her little sister when a photographer and model booker for 'Madison Models' agency approached her.


They handed her father a business card and an invitation to bring his daughter to Paris for some test shots. Suspicious at first, her parents eventually caved to Laetitia Casta's pleas. Within weeks of her first shot, she was walking the runway for Jean-Paul Gaultier. Having never worn make-up, she screamed when she caught her reflection in the mirror."

To me there's two issues that I have with this. First off, I go to a beach on let's say a Monday. There might just be barely legal girls cutting school as their parents tuition bills come rolling in (hey we all know the importance of a base tan) andddddd some guy miiiiiiiight just be "faking" a nap with Ray Ban glasses on orrrrrrr say "texting" when the camera flash "accidentally" goes off on his cell phone. All of a sudden I'm, I mean this guy's, a creep. Some tool "modeling agency guy" comes with a business card as an excuse to check out a 15 year old and that's ok. Bullshit...Sorry that one hit home. Number two.

What's the deal with her dad? Ya sure you can take pics of my 15 year old daughter. How about beat it before I break your lens. I loveeee my double standards. Any who, sure the significance of this incident on a beach doesn't have the magnitude of let's say the invastion of Normandy, but I can tell you that the books I read after school dealt a lot more with her than anything else.

***side note ---LC's a brown belt in Judo..Extra hot points

That's What She Said,

Mike Love