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FEMALE WINNER!
(14 percent of the vote)

Nadine Friedman
27, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; human-resources manager, artistic director for Stone Soup Theatre Arts

Click here to view outtakes from Nadine's photo shoot

“I’m not really a sexy person; my personality is more vaguely ridiculous than hot or coy or anything like that. I feel very outside the conventional race for a man and a penthouse—I’ll be sitting on an East Village stoop when I’m 60 years old, single with 45 cats. I’ll probably be naked then, too.”

“I’m really surprised I won. I’m surprised I even entered! I used to read ‘Public eye’ and be like, ‘Bitches, I wore mismatching tops and bottoms every day and you still didn’t notice me!’ Fine. Obviously I’m going to have to get naked in order to get in your magazine.”

“We live in such a superficial city—it eats people alive. This was my way of saying ‘fuck you’ to self-image and all of those preoccupations—what we’re supposed to look like, who we’re supposed to be. Now there’s no question of what I look like. I can let it all go and just focus on being me.”

Second place (8 percent of the vote)
Jessica Rich 24, midtown; real-estate agent
“I was 500 percent sure I had this contest, but second place it is. I can live with that. I’m sure I was only one vote off anyway.”

Third place (7 percent of the vote)
Tonya Canada 39, Harlem; word processor
“I’ve never taken third place in anything; I’ll have to get used to being a loser! In this case, though, I think my boyfriend and coworkers are breathing a sigh of relief. While some of them have seen my private parts, others prefer a little mystery.”