The Naked Truth:
Alexandra Gibson

Alexandra Gibson, 26 Agoura Hills, Calif. Likes: face Dislikes: thighs

An erotic photographer, 26-year-old Alexandra Gibson never allowed someone to shoot her nude before now. "I was anorexic for about seven years," she says. But after going through a treatment program, she says she's now "able to see myself without the fun-house mirror--as I really am." As Gibson began to see her body realistically, she also began to decorate it with tattoos. By allowing her body to be a canvas, she found a "way to express myself through my body and find the beauty in it."

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Her most elaborate tattoo is one she had done on her back while in Thailand. "It wasn't planned," she says. "I saw someone with an amazing tattoo and asked him where he got it." Gibson ended up finding the tattoo artist in a jungle hut, and it took 19 hours to complete the job. "Getting through it required meditation--and a lot of beer," she says. "Eventually your body just gives out. I ran out of adrenaline around hour 14."

Alexandra Gibson, 26 Agoura Hills, Calif. Likes: face Dislikes: thighs

Alexandra Gibson, 26 Agoura Hills, Calif. Likes: face Dislikes: thighs