Room 2D

From Janus 122 ‘At first I thought it witty when people called me a high flyer,’ said Annabel. ‘You know, air hostess swept away to exotic locations and all that. But after a while the joke began to wear a bit thin. If anyone says it to me now, I sometimes think I’ll scream!’ She softened the remark with a smile. One couldn’t really imagine this exquisitely pretty girl screaming because of something someone said. ‘Actually,’ Annabel went on, ‘being an air hostess is really far from the glamourous occupation travellers imagine it to be. Contrary to popular myth, the pilots aren’t all debonair charmers with craggy smiles and seductive voices. Some of them can be a real pain, and the majority seem to be married anyway. Oh, there is a certain attraction for a girl when you think of the sheer amount of responsibility they carry, conveying hundreds of tons of plane and people at near-stratospheric heights to a perfect landing on the...

From Janus 121, featuring glamour model Claudia Casali as Gina Gina is twenty-two, but to use her own words, ‘going on forty-two’. This doesn’t mean that she feels old, it is just that she considers she has experienced more in her short time on this mortal coil than most. Many of the lessons she learned were at the school of hard knocks. She’d recommend a similar education to everybody. Before starting modelling (at the age of twenty-one) Gina flitted from one unskilled job to another; never earning quite enough money, never experiencing job satisfaction and unsure what direction her blossoming young life would take. ‘Unskilled jobs are the pits,’ she explained. ‘I was invariably overworked and badly underpaid and the only time I earned anything approaching decent money was when I was a waitress in one of London’s trendy eateries. The basic pay wasn’t too brilliant, but I made five times as much in tips! (It seemed that the pr...