features - issue 73/74

this year's model

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acclaimed film Priest and the hard-nosed Face starring Damon Albarn. This time Antonia is making a health education film; a documentary of

Rebekka taking her own feisty brand of sex education to British schoolkids. It should make it on to the independent festival circuit before a screening on Channel 4.
So Miss Rebekka, tell us about your experiences in the 'porn industry' as a Playboy centrefold?
The question brings a gentle but firm correction. "It was not porn. There were no open crotch shots or anything like that. It was nude modelling. Art really."
This 'nude modelling' provided an escape from a childhood of physical abuse and chronic feelings of inadequacy. "I was trying on swim-wear in the local store, had some shots taken which appeared in the local paper and before I knew it I was doing a test shoot for Playboy," Rebekka recalls.
But her past was not so easy to escape and in 1989 it caught up with her, when out of the blue she was

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diagnosed HIV positive.
Rebekka's feelings of teenage inadequacy had been so bad that in her

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