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Kim.

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"Sit up straight please?"

Snap.

"Look away now."

Snap.

"Great! Now turn around & look with just your face."

Snap.

"Push the hair back."

Snap.

"Can someone fix her hair please!"

I waited.

"Okay, last one now, with you hair half in your face, look up a tiny bit & seduce the camera with your eyes."

Snap.

"Perfect."

Last photo of the day, thank goodness. I was exhausted but still had a long day to go.

I revised the images through the screen and showed the model her best ones.

I sat back as looked at the very last one, the one with her eyes.

Bright blue against the black background. Staring at the camera, basically taking your breath away when you looked at it.

I was astonished with my work. A couple years back I was eating drive thru everyday, barely having enough for rent & borrowing loads of money.

Now, I worked with artist from all around the world, I had enough to pay off two condos, one in LA and the other one in New York, I ate fancy everyday & had enough money to give to the less fortunate.

My photography career had grown so much in the last couple of years. I had never been so satisfied with my work & everything I accomplished. And it was all thanks to one image. An image I took one night that I had gone to Hollywood to take photos of random people. It was an image of a guy who had caught me taking a photo of him & stared at the camera directly. He had the brightest blue eyes mixed with green. They looked almost turquoise in the car & street lights. It left a number of people speechless, including me.

That one image created my name, Sasha Fierce.

Yeah right, not even close!

I was born under Christina Parker but I usually went by the name Chrissy.

When I was little I couldn't say my complete name so I would always mumble "Chrissy" and even my parents called me that when I was growing up.

Chrissy was actually the name that surfaced a lot of social media and photography books & magazines.

To explain again, I took an image of a guy a couple years back and when I went applying for a job at a magazine company, that image was in my portfolio & the head advisor took one look at it & was hooked! She hired me on the spot & I was very lucky that it was the head advisor that saw it because she managed to get my image on the front cover for the October issue when I had began working there in August.

Of course it created a couple jealous heads since on my 2 months of working there my image was on the front cover. Others who had been working there for EIGHT years hadn't even had a single image in the magazine.

I felt bad for them but really, it all based on presentation & some of those people's work was actually really crappy.

I was a perfectionist, not on myself but on my work. I tried to tweak everything so it would be outstanding and will captivate people looking at such things.