Diary of a model
Lily spends her days as a model, rushing from shoot to show and then to another casting. On Amayzine, she tells you everything about what her life is really like. Under a different name, of course, but that means she can share all the juicy details. This week, Lily pees wildly, very wildly.
No, no, I'm not talking about how I pee, but about where I pee. Or actually: where I have peed. I won't describe the toilet of every studio, because that would take me a while. But when you have to shoot on location, it can sometimes happen that it's hard to find a toilet. And what do you do when there's no toilet to be found? Exactly: you go on an adventure.
The construction worker's hut
Sometimes you have the ‘luck’ that there is construction happening right near the shoot location. I had that once in Barcelona. I was shooting an editorial in the most beautiful princess dresses you can imagine. I was wearing a stunning Elie Saab dress when I suddenly felt my bladder. It feels a bit like being in elementary school when you ask if you can go to the toilet, but just running away in an expensive dress isn't an option either. Anyway, together with the stylist, I went looking for a place to pee. The stinky construction worker's spot was my salvation. Those guys were laughing, but I can imagine it’s a strange sight to see a model in a long dress walk into an eco-toilet. And believe me when I say it’s not easy to not let part of the dress fall into the hole.
Bell ringing
When you're shooting on the street, it's not always easy to find a toilet either. If there are no cafes nearby and you'd rather not squat between two cars, your only hope is to ring the doorbell of a random house. Luckily, there are sometimes kind people at home who find it a funny story for later that a girl with bright red eyeliner and teased hair used their toilet.
Don’t eat the yellow snow
A slope doesn't always provide the cover you'd want, but desperate times call for desperate measures. When I really couldn't hold it anymore between two shots, I just knelt behind a rock (hoping that no off-piste daredevils would come by). Strangely enough, it was very easy, because such a slope provides the perfect wild pee spot and support (TIP!).
Just go behind that container
With only one shot left, no one wants to stop. So when I asked if I could go to the toilet (a two-minute drive from the location), the answer was: ‘Just go behind that container.’ Not only did I find this quite disrespectful, but I was also on my period. So the container option was not for me. When I insisted again that I really wanted to be taken to the toilet and the (male) photographer said again that behind the container would be fine, I got angry. ‘Well, I’m on my period and I need to go to the toilet NOW or things will go WRONG.’ Oh, I should have taken a picture of his face. With a blush on his cheeks, he mumbled that he could wait with the last shot and that I ‘could’ go to the toilet. Thanks, dude!
I'm really not averse to peeing in nature, but sometimes it leads to tricky, awkward situations. The best solution is to just laugh it off with the team or anonymously write a piece about it, so that more people can enjoy the humiliation.
xx Kisses from Lily
