To Play or not to Play-boy that is the question?

Hey :)

So you may have seen that I was on the front of the Irish Sun newspaper on Friday #CrazyDay with a big article inside on page.23

As you can see the front page had the headline 'I Hef Hugh in my Sights' which I think is a witty and hilarious headline-although a little misleading as I definitely don't have Hugh Hefner in my sights. I'm not by any means a gold-digger as it might seem if I was set on becoming his girlfriend and 'had him in my sights' and although generally I tend to go for guys a little older than me (as in a year or two) I'm definitely not interested in any man older than my mum or older than my granny or granddad would be if they were still alive-lol. Although I do respect Hugh Hefner and I think he's definitely a great business man. I also would never look down on a girl(/s) who was dating Hef-that's between them and their business-they're not harming anyone so it's no odds to me, although I do believe in monogamous relationships when it comes to my own life. 

Inside the paper the headline read 'Legendary Nudie Mag After Shahira; Meet the Galway Girl Playboy Hef Want's'-now although the title may mislead some and has misled many; if you read on you would learn that it is not Hugh Hefner himself who has been in touch with me-I would imagine he doesn't even know who I am. So it's not that I've been invited to the mansion by the man himself. 

I have been invited by the head of casting at Playboy to attend a castings this month in LA. There is no guarantee that I would definitely make the title of 'Playmate': as you can imagine any organisation can't pick a girl over the internet based on photographs alone=they would need to meet in person-so that is what I would be doing. I was simply delighted to even be asked to meet with them. 

As playboy wanted to meet me for a casting in 9days time there is no way I could travel so far at such short notice, Instead I am trying to arrange that I could go a little later during the summer: possibly in early July and make a proper trip out of it travelling with my friend Tina who will be finished exams etc...

I have a couple of other things to do (which I'm keeping under wraps) and people to meet in LA as it is anyway so I'd like to be able to "kill the two birds with the one stone".

Nudity:

The last thing I want to do is nudity. I studied Primary school teaching in Mary I in Limerick-I worked extremely hard during my leaving cert to get the points to go to Mary I. I then worked extremely hard throughout college to stay in Mary I and to graduate with my honours degree. It was not an easy time for me with my best-friend passing away exactly half way through my course: I believe many in my position would have dropped out of college but I kept fighting through in order to finish with my qualification. I love teaching however it has always been a back up plan (I believe you always need a solid back-up plan) coming behind my dreams if they were to fall through and not work out. I love to model however playboy is not my dream of all dreams either-my main ambition is to sing, dance and act along with modelling and I feel modelling opens doors dramatically into these areas and gets my name out there. 

There is a big difference between being successful in the public eye and being asked to pose for playboy-which would be on your terms and starting your career off by posing for playboy. 

What I know about playboy is the playboy Mansion/the parties, The Girls of the Playboy mansion on E, the Shannon twins on Big Brother, the brand playboy/the merchandise and Hugh Hefner the man himself, As for the magazine I really don't know that much about it... If it was the case that I had to pose full frontal nude I would not accept. 

The Last Few Days:

The last few days have been really crazy but fun!x! It was great to have all the publicity-my facebook like page (which you can visit by clicking here) went up hundreds and my friend requests are full. The Sun is obviously a very powerful paper and I'm looking forward to doing more with them. I have also learnt about the power of the internet where one thing can be passed on and on and next thing I'm either already a Playmate or Hugh Hef's girlfriend in the mind of many. 

The story was even picked up by an American website where they compared me to Kim Kardashian (such an honour because I love her and think she's gorgeous). 

I was asked into Galway Bay FM for my first radio interview and I have been asked to appear on TV for an interview during the week. Until I know if it is going ahead or not I will keep quiet on which show etc... but #WatchThisSpace :)

I got so many good wishes and such positivity from nearly everyone that I want to take this chance to thank everyone who got in touch-ye are all amazing! 

I hope this blog has clarified a couple of things and keep an eye on it to keep up-to-date with the whole situation :)

Lots of Love

Shahira Xo