---------------------- [excerpt from Jerry Hall: My life in pictures. Quadrille - 2010] --------------------------
Gunter Sachs
Gunter was a famous photographer who was also an economist, a mathematician and an industrialist.
He had been married to Brigitte Bardot and had quite a reputation as a ladies' man, but when I went to stay with him and his wife Mirja in Saint-Tropez I found a polite, charming guy.
His wife was lovely, they had little children and it was all very normal.
I was booked to do a shoot with him but I wouldn't go topless, so all the other girls in the photo are topless, and I've got my hands and hair covering myself. He took the shot in his house on the beach where he had a giant chessboard made out of stones.
Every photographer wanted you to do topless shots, it was a constant battle. Most of the time I said no. My mother had warned me not to do nude shots, but I wasn't just being modest -- in those days if you were working for Vogue, which was the pinnacle of every model's career, they wouldn't work with you if you had pictures in Playboy.
High fashion and soft porn just didn't mix, so I was always careful.
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