Essentials South Africa

Can you guess what we do for a LIVING?

‘I’ve become a pro at pulling different poses’

Annie Hawkins, 61, found a second career working as a plus-size model.

When my friend bought me a boudoir photo shoot for my 55th birthday, I almost threw the voucher in the bin. I’d worked an office job for most of my career – modelling just wasn’t for me. It took two years before I finally booked it, in 2016. Arriving at the studio, I wondered what on earth I was doing. But as I got chatting

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