FRANKLY SPEAKING
Jesinta Franklin, looking glamorous with her hair slicked back and her make-up photoshoot-perfect, is unglamorously struggling to adjust the height of a chair that I’m sitting on...
It’s stuck in a position too high for someone as short as I am, and Jesinta’s determined to fix it. I’d already declined her offer to swap seats – her 1.75m-tall frame would have no trouble in my place – and joked I’d find a box to use as a footstool. She laughed but walked over anyway, dressed in a fluffy bathrobe that covered the Skye & Staghorn two-piece she’d shot for our photoshoot, and began her crusade against the stubborn chair.
This is not how I pictured us meeting when I walked into the Sydney studio where we’re shooting her cover. Jesinta is, after all, one of the country’s most sought-after models, a position she’s worked hard to establish ever since she was local designers to dress her, is in that position now.”) If anything, Jesinta should expect to be fussed over, not be the one doing all the fussing. Yet, here she remains, past the point anyone else would have given up, forcing the handle until the seat finally relents and my feet touch the floor. I say thank you, laughing, surprised by the effort she’s put in. She brushes off the compliment in a way that suggests this is pretty standard behaviour for real-life Jesinta, the woman behind the shiny images.
