Orange Is The New Black: 10 Things You Need To Know About Ruby Rose
5. She Was The First FHM Lesbian Cover Girl
Men’s magazines and lesbian cover girls hardly ever make for a classy combo. Unless they feature Ruby Rose in pole position, that is. Rose is notoriously loathe to use cheap thrills to capitalise on her sexuality and tends to favour more the ‘let’s raise awareness’ road, rather than the ‘let’s titillate the masses’ slippery slope.
So, when she went against type and accepted FHM’s offer to be their first lesbian cover girl, alarm bells did ring sound a faint ringing in some fan’s minds. They needn’t have worried, as the end result scored full marks on stunning and zero on trash.
Rose later said that she had agreed to do it because she had previously worked with FHM photographer Carlotta Moye and she had liked the results. In true Rose style, when magazine editor Guy Mosel approached her with a proposal to break all FHM rules and feature her on the cover, her reaction was: why not! After all, if there’s another reader demographic that’s just as likely to reach for a men’s mag as a straight man, that’s obviously the lesbian group.
Asked what led him to bend the rules, Mosel’s reply was that he wanted to move away from a world of “homogenised beauty and media-friendly soundbite” and to give his readers a “hurricane of unpredictability and untamed sexuality”, adding that he found the model “in a word, awesome”.
Mr Mosel, the whole world agrees.