I know she’s the Queen of the One-Piece, but …
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| Photo: Walter Iooss Jr. |
… this is a perfect bikini pic.
It’s actually remarkably
similar to Karen Mulder’s shot from six years later. Blonde bombshell,
swervy pose, turquoise bikini. I guess I have a “type.”
But
Ashley’s pose is more presentational. Here’s a head-on look at her
magnificent, voluptuous body. A platonic ideal of a bikini top and
bottom, laid out upon Ashley for our enjoyment.
For me, there’s a
kind of silliness to the pose as well. The tousled hair, the
pressed-together thighs, the pouty lips aimed off to the heavens … It’s
like she’s doing a parody of a sexy pose, “playing at” being a bathing
beauty.
When you watch Ashley in her making-of videos, she
clearly has a sense of humor. She goofs around, cracks jokes, and seems
to relish the bizarreness of what she’s doing: prancing through the snow
in a swimsuit, straddling a fence in a swimsuit, lathering soap bubbles
on her chest while thigh-deep in a jacuzzi in a swimsuit, etc.
In
a lot of behind-the-scenes SI videos, a girl will pull an exaggerated,
silly “sexy” move, like winking at the camera or wriggling her hips or
blowing a kiss. The wonderful thing is, their cartoonish, ironic
sexiness still comes across as sexy. They can’t escape it, no matter how
corny they try to make it.
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