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How do you get a bunch of normal chicks to strip and say cheese, assuming you're not a Mardi Gras regular or a Seven Sisters posture photographer? That was the dilemma facing Margot Roth, a first-time filmmaker, as she attempted to recruit participants for a documentary about naked women. Flyers, she decided: cheap, unintrusive, less pervy-seeming than taking out an ad in the Voice. And, so, in the spring of 2001, Roth papered the town:
Fashion Models: Keep Walking, We Need 50 Real Women of All Ages, Sizes, and Colors . . . Stretch Marks, Bow-Legs, Body Hair, Cellulite, Tattoos, Wrinkles, Knobby Knees, Varicose Veins, Round Bellies, Defined Muscles, Scars--Thin, Heavy, Pear-Shaped . . . All Shapes and Sizes Welcome & Needed!,
Roth's career as the Bob Guccione of bulgy everywomen arose,...
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