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PHOTOGRAPHY: ROY MACAM
INTERVIEW: ALEX C. PAITA
STYLING: BADJ GALIAS-GENATO FOR BADJ SWIMWEAR AND COUTURE
MAKEUP: DIANA DE CASTRO
HAIR: DIMPLE CALLADA
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE HUB EXECUTIVE LOUNGE, MABINI ST. MALATE, MANILA

You were saying this should have been a long time ago?
Since I was 18, I’d wanted to pose for FHM. But I couldn’t because my folks wouldn’t let me. I’m 23 now so I can do anything I want because that’s what they told me.

And so it happened you caught an FHM staff’s attention in a bar, and they approached you.
I was happy at the time because I saw “FHM.” I told myself, “It’s like a dream come true, somebody from FHM finally found me!”

A word of warning to other ladies, though—there are freaks pretending they’re connected with us. Good thing you double-checked its authenticity.
But then I replied months later because I was 132 lb then—that heavy. I dropped down to 115 lb due to, I don’t know, depression, which led to not eating at all.

You look gorgeous both ways. But you’re not purely Pinay, are you?
I’m not. My dad’s German-American and my mom’s Portuguese-Pinoy.

And the dominant gene being…
I think…German, because they say I don’t look American enough. Germans have very sharp features—I think that’s what I have now.