Dystopia Magazine: What wonderful genes make up your ethnicity?
Sabrina Starr: My background is French and Irish!

How did you get your start as a model?
Actually, by entering bikini pageants, was where I first started doing modeling... we also have a competition for a full page in the Toronto Sun Newspaper called the 'Sunshine Girl' (where she has appeared in a record-breaking 10 times), so I tried out for Sunshine Girl and some bikini contests, and did really well and placed in the Finals, and took it from there basically.

What do you want to be when you grow up? (laughs)
Well, some people would say I'm already grown up (laughs). I would like to continue my modeling career as far as I can take it, once you get older, the modeling stuff isn't as open as you would like, so I'm going to try to continue that as long as I can, I also choreograph events and things like that so I can hopefully turn it into an agency or go into styling for shoots, I also do a bit of photography myself...I love the industry!

Do you have any plans to move into acting?
I've had a lot of people ask me, I've always done a lot of the modeling and commercial type bookings, but yeah, I would like to go into acting. I just don't happen to know a lot of people in that part of the industry yet, so that's probably why I haven't pursued it that much.

Would you consider giving up your modeling career to act?
Well, I do love being the center of attention, and I do like the artistic part of the modeling, I actually like styling a whole shoot beginning to end, not just doing the modeling part of it. I'll probably always like the modeling, but I also like to be diverse. I like to do as many things as possible, like doing make up artistry to styling to photography of the shoot, the lighting--everything: editing ...if acting allowed me to add to my list of credits then that would be great.

What type of horror medium is your favorite? Movies, books...
Movies!

What are your favorite horror movies?
I'm into sci-fi horror, like The Matrix, not so much the gore kind of stuff. I liked Cell, [it’s] something with more terror and less blood. I've also seen The Ring, Ringu..I think I'd say The Ring is my favorite...good and scary!

What are your favorite types of movies?
I love vintage movies and old musicals, the 30's 1940's, any type of movie like Gone With the Wind, anything with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, all the old stock movies and all that.

Do you think it’s surprising that a lot of people wouldn’t imagine that a beautiful woman would be into horror?
Yeah, I think a lot of people would be surprised, because of the blonde hair and blue eyes... I love pink, and stuff like that so they probably wouldn't think I'd be into that, but yeah I really like it!

Do you have a favorite horror author?
Stephen King.

Excellent choice! Was the CSI-style photo shoot for a special project you were working on, or were you just experimenting with a darker style?
(Laughs) That's one thing I like to do, is experiment, and be able to do all different types of looks, like they use on America's Next Top Model. I always watch the photo shoots they develop there, how the background and the layer of set is put together. They recently did a shoot that was kind of controversial, the girls displayed in a kind of death role, so it kind of inspired me to try something like that. It was a look that I've never done before (laughs), also the make up and the shoot as well! I've never put on that type of make up or that kind of horror movie make up , so that was something new for me to try, to see if I could do that.

Was that the episode with The Seven Deadly Sins (Cycle 4: episode: 8: The Girl Who Gets The Bad News)?
Yeah, it was something like that. One of the girls had been shot, another one had been strangled, one girl was electrocuted in a bathtub with a hairdryer, they had all these different ones, so they had a totally different look. So its a total different look to go from one that's glamour, and comes very easy to me, to that...I like to be challenged all the time, and that was something that challenged me because of the look of the photo, to be able to do the make up ...the blood and everything (laughs) ..it was something I've never done before!

There were some really wild pictures in there...
Yeah! They were scary, they scared me afterwards! (laughs) After I was done editing and everything, I was like 'wow! That’s a really scary picture!'

You seem so sweet, what the wildest thing you have ever done?
In downtown New York I did a shoot where in the picture, if you look at it, it looks like it's summertime, and it just happened that there was no snow there are the time, but it was like -30, it was freezing outside, and I wanted to shoot in cut off shorts and furry jacket, with my hair up in rollers and a small pink traveling case, and thumbing a ride at the side of the road. We had to have permits to shoot everything so we kind of just went out into the street, and I had a big, heavy, long coat on, my hair in rollers and I'm walking down the street and people are looking at me (laughs), and we found a spot, took one shot and it looked good, and I took my long coat off ran out into the street took the picture, ran back and immediately put the coat on..
I've also been in fully body paint for a shoot, from neck to toes...it took 6 1/2 hours to do... and then we went out into the main spot in Montreal, kind of like a Times Square, where everybody goes to eat and hang out, and I went out there in full body paint in my mechanical looking outfit and went right into the crowd and shot while other people were around!

Have you ever regretted 'going nude'?
(Laughs) Probably not, I'm comfortable with my nudity and everything, and always have been. The only time I've regretted it is when you're outside and it's the wintertime, you have to do something like that and it's freezing cold (laughs) then I hate it, but that's the only time I've ever had to dread it.

Cool! On top of your impressive list of credits in pageants and car shows, you’ve been a Naked News Guest Anchor? How did that go? What was it like?
I sat in with them as a Guest Anchor, and also as a One on One International Model program where they do a film and photo shoot with you, and basically highlight your career and create a copy in DVD and for other people to watch, so I got to do sit in for a day, and stand against the green background. (Laughs) It was great, they had a DVD that was all about me, Sabrina Starr: One on One, so that was neat!

Have all the special people in your life been supportive of you being nude?
Yep, I always try to surround myself with good people, and people that support what I do, and everybody knows I have a good head on my shoulders so, wherever I want to go with my career, and whatever I want to do, they’re very supportive!

You also handle all of the graphic editing on your images?
Yes! I'm the editor, and Art (her primary photographer, Art Liem) is more into film, but I like the digital because I know how to do a lot of the editing, and it’s something I really enjoy doing. Some of the other models will send me their pictures sometimes and I'll edit them for them. I like working with Photoshop, and have been pretty much self- taught by using it, and playing around with it...when I go on shoots I'll always ask and inquire about how to do things, so I’ve learned it from scratch!

You’ve also been an Event Coordinator?
Yep, that's another thing I do and part of [the industry], and since I like to know how to do everything, when I get to do something I've never done before, I learn how to basically coordinate the same event, so I can run it myself. I've been in bikini pageants for so long that I thought they these could be run better, and the girls could be taken care of better...you know, the girls are putting all their money and effort into something where they could walk away with nothing, so why not make it so that we can pay the girls something, and give them all something for their drive out there, and give them prizes and take care of them properly. I run and MC fashion shows and have done numerous promotions in nightclubs and hosted events. I've coordinated my shoots and other girls’ photo shoots and handled the styling, makeup and shopping involved for it...I’m a bit of a control freak (laughs), but [the work] gets done!

How has your life changed with modeling? What kind traveling have you done?
I've done a lot of traveling, that's the part I really enjoy. It’s great being able to go to Mexico and the Caribbean and see parts of the world that I would never have gotten a chance to see otherwise... I love the Caribbean!

Was that where you've done the (One Model Place) ShutUp & Model Competition?
They shot the pilot for that show, and chose all the people they were going to use as their Finalists, but the pilot never sold, from what I understand. So if they do ever get picked up, I guess I'll be on it! (Laughs)

Do you want to know about my tattoos?

Wow! Where?
It's always a good conversation starter! I have 2 on my lower back that says 'Dominant Goddess', so when I go out and people see that, they're always asking me 'What's that all about?'

(Laughs) When did you get that one?
Oh, about 3 or 4 years ago, I won a bikini contest, and I won a bunch of money, and I saw that there was a tattoo parlor right around the corner that was really well known, and I just decided to go get it!

What do you do to keep yourself so fit?
Well I'm lucky that I really don't have to workout or anything like that, I've always had that physique...I was in ballet for 17 years, and I'm so busy all the time, I just keep going all the time!

What is the downside to being beautiful? Do you find you are judged or cast unfairly based on your looks?
It's mostly having the 'glamour' look, the blonde hair, the big boobs, and sometimes you can definitely be judged, or just looked at like an object, when you do bikini modeling or lingerie modeling; but once you're in the industry for awhile, make a lot of contacts with people, and you have a attitude that's professional, you end up attracting the right kind of people to work with.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years with modeling, or possibly moving into acting?
I've managed to keep my career going, even though the industry is always looking for younger girls, and I'm actually busier than I've ever been than when I was younger, so there is still a market out there for the type of modeling that I'm doing, even if you become a more ‘mature’ model, they still have work for you if you look hard enough for it.