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Underwater Glamour Photography– Victoria
Underwater Glamour Photography with Victoria, a beautiful Russian model living in the States and a very good swimmer.
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…and thus quoth a star called Esther Williams
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
I think it’s so funny when people think they can’t control a movie star. They can. We’re just women, you know.
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures
of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim, then I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
