Headline SurferNEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. Those who walked by a vendor tent for helmet art work at the Cabbage Patch in Samsula during Bike Week wondered if the life-like figure in body paint was the real thing.Few dared to ask and those who did didn't get an answer.Only with a sharp eye or a strong camera lens could see that this was a living, breathing creature, whose beauty was accentuated by the flourescent green paint. With little in the way of actual clothes and a lot to be left to the imagination, 38-year-old Sophia Smith was a head turner. And she's No. 72 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the top 100 local stories of 2012.Only with a sharp eye or a strong camera lens could see that this was a living, breathing creature, whose beauty was accentuated by the flourescent green paint. With little in the way of actual clothes and a lot to be left to the imagination, 38-year-old Sophia Smith was a head turner.'
I've been taking classes,' she said of the artwork and learning how to pose where it looks like she isn't beathing. 'You just relax and get your mindset.' Only with a sharp eye or a strong camera lens could see that this was a living, breathing creature, whose beauty was accentuated by the flourescent green paint. With little in the way of actual clothes and a lot to be left to the imagination, 38-year-old Sophia Smith was a head turner.'
I've been taking classes,' she said of the artwork and learning how to pose where it looks like she isn't beathing. 'You just relax and get your mindset.' The two days of standing in the hert sun with little shade put a few bucks in her pocket and most of all, gave her more confidence that perhaps some day she could make a living modeling like this.At 5 feet 3 and 136 pounds, Smith had more than her share of guys and even some gals checking out her assets. With some comments made to try and trick her, Smith said she takes her mind to another place and tunes them out for as much as an hour at a time. After all, she was being paid to stand and let those passing by to wonder: Is she real?' My motto is I have one body, one life,' said Smith of Jasper, Ga., where she is a hairdesser amd mother of three.' And while others like what they see, Smith understands that inner beauty is what matters most.'
I've always used my brain and my heart,' she said.Top 100 Countdown Recap. Short BioHenry Frederick is publisher of Headline Surfer®, the award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet covering the Daytona Beach-Sanford-Orlando metro area via HeadlineSurfer.com since 2008. A longtime cops & courts reporter focused on breaking news & investigative reporting, Frederick is among the Sunshine State's most prolific daily news reporters, having amassed close to a hundred award-winning byline stories nearly evenly split in print and digital platforms.
Frederick earned his Master of Arts in New Media Journalism with academic honors from Full Sail University in Winter Park in February 2019. He was a metro reporter with the Daytona Beach News-Journal for nearly a decade and then served as a city editor for the Taunton Daily Gazette in Taunton, Mass, while maintaining a residence in Central Florida. Prior to moving to Florida, Frederick was a metro reporter for the Rockland Journal-News in West Nyack, NY, for seven years. Headline Surfer was named the Sunshine State's top internet news site by the Florida Press Club in 2018.