Combining her love of pin-up photography, music and art with
personal ideals of female empowerment nurtured in DIY culture,
Missy founded SuicideGirls as a place where a woman can be herself
and where her confidence, creativity and uniqueness are what
defines her. While it is true that beauty is in the eye of the
beholder, Missy found the camera lens of mainstream media a bit
myopic for her taste. SuicideGirls began and has grown from a
desire to expand mainstream culture's definition of what is
beautiful, and to show that it can be realized in a more diverse
range of women than those who grace the pages of most fashion
magazines and movie posters. What started for Missy as personal
expression has now become a revolution.Raised in Portland, Oregon
in what could be described as an eclectic and artistic environment,
Missy combines her traditional fine arts training with new media
business acumen in the operation of SuicideGirls. In addition,
Missy continues to photograph women for the site. Her photography
focuses on depicting how each model feels sexiest about themselves
in the photos and has inspired a generation of young women to
embrace their bodies and showcase their confidence.
Since launching SuicideGirls, Missy has become a voice for the
culture outside of what mainstream media is reporting. She has been
interviewed on issues relating to music, the Internet, pop culture
and body image on numerous radio stations and in publications such
as the New York Times, Wired, Spin and Elle. Recently featured as
one of the top "12 Sexiest Jobs in Hollywood" and the "20 Sexiest
Jobs on the Web", Missy has appeared on HBO, Fox News, the hit
series "CSI: NY" on CBS, as well as the four SuicideGirls movies in
constant rotation on Showtime.
""They're the girl next door but more colorful and with better
record collections."" --Spin ""Heavily-tattooed [Angelina Jolie]
special ordered Hunky Valentine [Brad Pitt] the naughty coffee
table book, 'SuicideGirls: Hard Girls, Soft Light, ' a collection
of more than 2,500 photos of young, tattooed, and nude pinups.""
--National Enquirer
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