AT FIRST SIGHT

Congrats on your first MAXIM feature, ladies. How do you feel?

JESSIKA (J): I feel very grateful. I’m honestly pinching myself that I could be in this magazine with one of my best friends, Ines. It’s a dream come true.

INES (I): So far, this is one of my proudest achievements to date! I feel really good and confident about it.

Why did you decide to do this MAXIM photo shoot?

J: On the show [Married At First Sight] us girls would hang out by the drinks table at the dinner parties each week and always talk about what we wanted to do when the show finished – all of us always said we want to do a MAXIM shoot.

I: Yeah, it’s been a dream and life goal of mine to shoot with MAXIM. It was one of the first things I pitched to my manager and I didn’t realise until it was going ahead that Jess had also done the same – so, here we are!

What did you love most about this photo shoot?

I: Seeing how confident I felt. I was surprised at how comfortable and good I felt considering it was my first major shoot. It was shot at the start of winter at the Vibe Hotel on the Gold Coast and it was a really good day — the sun came out and it wasn’t cold at all once we got stuck into it.

I loved that it was very relaxed and fun. Whenever I see the MAXIM shoots I always think, “Wow,