Jerdani Kraja
Age: 21 • Body of work: fitness model and bodybuilder PacificSD: How did you get into modeling? JERDANI KRAJA: I was a Marine and I would always see other people in magazines or winning shows that I felt like I had a better body than. One day, I showed up to the biggest fitness show of the year and took first place out of fifty participants. From there, photographers spotted me, and I started shooting with the top photographers in the world. Do you have any scars, tattoos or other identifying marks on your body? I have a tattoo on my butt. It’s the hand signal for the word “gnarly” and it actually says “gnarly” on the wrist. My buddies and I used to go wake boarding a lot on the lake and we liked to moon other boaters. So we all got them — me and six buddies. We were 16 or 15 at the time. Now I use it as an icebreaker. What’s the strangest modeling gig you’ve been offered? Five grand to do a [pornographic] video. People want to me to do porn all the time. I never would. It would affect my future as a model… and my job as a future fireman. Is that what you see yourself doing after modeling? Yes, I want to be a firefighter; that’s what I’m currently going to school for. Or else I would go be Magic Mike. You would strip but not do porn? Yep, my mom gave me the green light on that. That’s how Channing Tatum was found.
Location: Bay Ho. july 2015 • PACIFICSANDIEGO.coM
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