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We first introduced alt.model Kandy back in Bizarre 149, but now that she's on the cover we wanted to get better acquainted with the tattooed temptress...

Born in Alcester, Warwickshire, Kandy escaped to work at Modern Body Art in Birmingham as a body piercer. Hungry for excitement, she began modelling latex fashion at a local fetish club, and was head-hunted for modelling work. The loss of her mother when she was 18 spurred Kandy to carve a new life for herself and, in the style of her favourite film, True Romance, she flew to LA to meet her MySpace love Sean. The pair left a path of delectable destruction across the States culminating in a Vegas wedding, complete with a pizza reception. But enough from us! We’ll hand over to Kandy for the final word…

“I realised I’d lived a sheltered life when I first modelled at a fetish night back in Birmingham,” she says. “On the TV, clubs like that are always filled with sexy guys and girls, but in reality you see the fattest guys wearing cock rings walking around nonchalantly with their guts hanging out. Luckily, it didn’t put me off modelling, and having ink has made my work much more interesting. My tattoos have deep meanings for me. I lost my mum to heart disease so I have a large tribute piece on my back of swallows, a horseshoe and the shape of a heart.

“Getting inked was like therapy. Now I live in Phoenix, Arizona, with my husband Sean and our baby boy, who likes to come on shoots with me. I’ve been modelling for tattoo magazines and was so excited to do this twisted pin-up shoot for Bizarre – I’d only given birth six weeks before! “Recently Sean and I featured on a TV show called Tattoo Highway, like LA Ink but on the road – we had Mexican bride and groom sugar skulls tattooed as a wedding gift to each other. To me tattoos are an investment and the only thing I’m taking to the grave. My dad collects taxidermy so maybe if I go first he’ll get me stuffed!”