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will never respond to an ad if someone uses ‘female’ as a noun, but if
it’s an adjective, that’s okay.”
Claudia looks like a runway
model and acts like an artist:
thoughtful and assured. Her towering, spindly frame is hidden underneath a button-up shirt and blazer,
her short, rain-spritzed hair tucked
behind her ears. The pouring rain
nearly drowned out Claudia’s
hushed voice as she sipped a black
coffee in a Manhattan bookstore.
The Montreal-born model began
posing nude for artists at 19. She
had experience in fashion modeling and dreams of being a curator,
so the unconventional teenage decision to be an art model made a
surprising amount of sense.
“I don’t really remember my
first session,” she says. “I don’t
think I was nude for that one;
I was wearing a kimono. I still
wear a kimono mostly, but of
course now I take it off.”
For the past 10 years Claudia
has been modeling on-and-off,
charging between $20 an hour and
$500 a day, depending on the gig.
(The flexible hours and control
allow her to curate on the side,
often incorporating the a