Sam had always being a very confident
person. She wasn’t he most beautiful girl in the world or the most athletic or
anything like that. She was just an average girl that never really had a
problem with her own body. When she was at school, she saw many people being
bullied because of how they looked or how they dressed or things like that. But
the bullies never got to her because she simply did not believe anything they
said. Maybe it was the way she was raised or maybe she had been born with a
very thick skin. The point was no one could take her down.
As she got older, she decided to try a little
bit of everything. She did theatre and always went to a summer camp not far
from home. She would also love to help recycle and clean the parks of her city.
She earned some money by walking her neighbors’ dogs and she had at least five
pen pals from all over the world. Sam lived to be active and to feel she was
doing something. She even approached the kids at school that were bullied and
tried to help them by giving them more things to do. Sometimes, she succeeded.
After graduating high school, she entered a
proper acting academy where she was always one of the most advanced students in
the class. She got the directions of the teacher very fast and knew how to
connect with a character in a matter of minutes. She became that person fro a
while. It was amazing to see her as all those characters, no matter if they
were men or women, young or old or foreigner. She always knew exactly how to do
it.
The school lasted for years year and by the
third year her parents announced to her that they had financial problems and
that they wouldn’t be able to give her money for transportation and food for
her third year and that they had no money for her fourth and last year in the
academy. For a moment, she was very worried. It was the first time in her life
that Sam didn’t really know what to do right away. She spent a whole night
without sleep thinking of solutions.
However, the solution came to her the next
day. Her acting school was part of a larger university, so when she went to
class she always walked by a big board where people would pin down what they
were looking for. She checked the board to see if there were any jobs she could
take part time in order to help her parents pay for her stuff or pay it herself
in any case. She read many little papers looking for something good and a blue
one got her attention.
Sam had never cared about what people said
about her. She had never really had second thoughts about what she wore; how
her body was build or the things she had to do to get somewhere. She was a
fighter and very hands on kind of a person. So after class, she went straight
to the classroom written in the blue paper. They were looking for men and women
that would pose for the art students.
It was in an area of the university she rarely
went to. Outside, there were about three people waiting. When the door opened,
a woman asked her name and physical data. She wrote those down in a sheet of
paper on a clipboard and then closed the door after one of the people that had
been waiting had entered the room. Sam could only see one other person inside
with the woman: a middle-aged bald man who probably was the teacher for that
class.
She waited for an hour until the other two
people had passed. Apparently the “audition”, or whatever it was, could be very
exhaustive. When they finally let her in, they immediately asked for her to
remove all clothes and to step up in a square that was about thirty centimeters
tall. She did exactly that, feeling a little scared at first. The woman, who
was probably an assistant, was doing some kind of sketch on her clipboard. The
man just turned around Sam, looking at every single inch of her body.
Suddenly, he asked Sam to pose in three different
ways. He showed her three different paintings and she had to imitate the
positions of the models in them. Sam wasn’t very into painting as such but she
knew those pictures were rather classical. So she immediately knew there not
going to do anything very modern in that class or at least not from the first
day.
After the first ten minutes, she was very
comfortable posing as a goddess shooting an arrow at a centaur and then being
seductive, half covering herself with a very silky and transparent tissue the
teacher provided for her. They were there for more than an hour until the
assistant told her she could grab her clothes and dress. They told her they
would call her in order to know if she had gotten the job. She asked if she
could know how much they paid and the mentioned the number. It was a very good
one.
She got the job and worked there for her whole
third year. She had to arrive to some early classes, which was awful because of
the cold, but the teacher was always kind enough to bring a portable heater for
her not to freeze. Then she would go to her classes and sometimes she would
come back late in order to pose for the advanced students.
Sam didn’t really tell many people about her
job. She certainly didn’t tell his parents. They were happy enough seeing their
daughter knew how to move around in the world. And only a couple of friends
knew. They even went once and told her how odd it was that no one really saw
her but instead saw her body as if it was some other person. It was very
strange.
That year, se won a lot of money. With that
and a job she got the following summer, she was able to pay her last year of
acting school. She kept modeling during that year but she didn’t do as many
hours because the audition part of her life had begun and she really had to be
looking for all the parts possible. Once she graduated, she began to do so more
actively, landing roles in plays and even movies.
Her breakout role was the one of the heroine
of a post-apocalyptic story involving zombies. She signed on for one movie but
two more were made. After that, she did more elaborate stuff like a costume
drama that happened in Africa and another where she was a woman that had a very
awful disease that was deemed incurable for many years. For that one she received
the most praise and Sam was even considered for many awards. It was the best
time of her life because she got to travel a lot.
When she turned 28, she got the role of a
woman trying to save millions from genocide in a war that people didn’t even
talked about. Sam researched the role and actively pursued it for many months
until they chose her over many better-known actresses. She was careful about
every aspect of the role and was able to do her best performance ever. That
year was a whirlwind for her as everyone praised her work and called her a “revelation”
and things of the sort.
She began being nominated for many awards.
Every time it happened she would call the director of the film, a woman called
Flora, and they would chat for hours about it. However, something happened that
would sour their happiness for a while. Someone had gone through Sam’s past and
had found the portraits she had posed for and some pictures too, as she modeled
for the photography students too. The tabloids had a field day and everyone
else started to talk solely about that and not the movie.
Sam apologized to Flora but the woman told her
never to do that. She hadn’t done anything wrong and it was nothing that would
affect her forever. She encouraged Sam to be herself and confront the issue as
herself and as no one else. And so she did. She released a statement and even
made a video that went viral, when she explained how she had always trusted
herself and wanted everyone to feel the same way.
She showed everyone that she was not ashamed
but rather proud of being a woman that did not have to hide or feel bad because
others wanted her to feel like that. She had made a life by her own hand and
she was also proud of that. In her video, she invited every woman to be
comfortable in their skin, take nudes pictures or just looking themselves at
the mirror and accepting who they were because everyone is one of a kind.
Many attacked for the way she saw the world, mostly men. But she had decided she would never care about what destructive people thought. She knew most people were not like that, she knew they would all see what she meant, where she was coming from.
Her chances of having a great career were
never harmed after that. She eventually won an Academy Award and went on to
pose for magazines naked, in order to prove that they couldn’t take her down or
shame her. Sam was there to stay.
