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Date Posted: 12:30:41 08/07/06 Mon
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Pops Fernandez - August 2006
Cause Celebre
We played the waiting game with the Concert Queen Pops Fernandez for too long. Finally, victory!
INTERVIEW: Allan Hernandez
PHOTOGRAPHY: Xander Angeles of Edge of Light
Here at some rich guy's modest palace in Greenhills, sinking our feet into plush leopard print carpets and our asses on ultra comfortable leather chairs, watching through panoramic windows typhoon Florita blanket the Ortigas skyline in gloom and torrential rain. FHM continues to work even as a pocket apocalypse transpires; the cover shoot has to be finished, and finished by 5 PM. And so, checking our progress, we figure we only have an hour or so left for four more setups.
On downcast days like this, we all wish we were stuck at home, asleep, and not have to go to work. Well, after we're done with this shoot, the plan is to declare a national non-working holiday.
We'll call it Pops Fernandez in luscious lingerie sprawled on the stairs on the cover of FHM day.
We're all entitled to this because, finally, we can stop pestering Pops Fernandez. A wish has been granted. A fantasy has been fulfilled. A mystery has been unveiled. We now have closure with her. Closure and comfort in the fact that we've managed to get her to wear tasty lingerie, stretch herself out on a staircase, and give us one of the most seductive poses we've seen in a long while.
Sorry to get all gushy but, really, what we only want to say is that we finally know if Pops looks good in a French corset.
We’d like to know how…(Pops interrupts)
You forced me! Ha ha ha!
We did? It was consensual! No, really, the question is: Do we declare today a national holiday because you have finally unveiled yourself nicely?
(looks at her stylist) He said yeah! Actually on my way here I was asking myself: “Did I really say yes to this shoot?! How was I convinced again?” But the truth is, FHM has been asking me to do the cover for the longest time.
So what did we do to make you say yes?
I don’t know nga eh. I’m still trying to ask myself if I’m totally convinced. This shoot was supposed to happen the week before pa, it was already scheduled and all. But then sa sobrang nerbiyos ko I said, “Teka, tawad lang. P’wede next week na lang?” As if that was gonna make a difference! Ha ha ha! I guess I just had to prepare myself mentally and…I want to say physically but all I did was starve myself for this shoot.
Tell us more about the physical sufferings you had to go through for this.
Apart from the starvation? I’d have to say it was more the mental part. Because I had agreed to do it, I had to prep myself by [answering questions] like why am I doing this in the first place.
You haven’t done anything like this ever in your entire career, yes?
No, not at all.
And will this be the last or the revelation of a new Pops ready for more?
This will be the last, ha ha ha! No, but they’re gonna see… (Pops’ handler interrupts)
Oops, your handler says there’s more daring stuff ahead…
Really?! (laughs) But people will be seeing me with more skin only because I play a superhero alien in the movie ZsaZsa Zaturnnah, which is pretty much what this pictorial is for—maybe that’s part of what convinced me to do this cover, to give some sort of a teaser before I do the movie.
Are you saying eyes are really gonna be popping out of their sockets for you in the movie?
Well no. I'm not gonna go bold, daring, sexy, or anything like that. Zsa Zsa Zaturnah is actually a comedy musical. It's just the superhero outfit.
Skin would be only be incidental for the movie, then. With us, on the other hand, it's a celebration of you as a...
National holiday, ha ha ha!
Yes!
Is it (the cover) really a big deal? I don't think it is.
But it is. Apart from you being a fantasy some men would want fulfilled, we wager this shoot will never happen again - enough cause for celebration.
Yes, maybe that'a another thing - I wanted to do something I've never done before, and agree to do it before I cannot do it anymore. It's something I can do now so I might as well do it now. At least I can say, "Hey you know what, I have a copy of this magazine..." Ha ha ha!
Are you enjoying yourself so far?
No, it's not comfortable! (laughs boisterously) I'm just not used to it. The shots are great, and I know I'm in good hands. It's just that maybe I'm so used to pictorials where I only have to put makeup, smile, then change into the next outfit - which has more cover than what I'm wearing now.
Some important men in your lives are bound to flip out with the shoot. We wonder how your two boys will take this...
They'd probably be more surprised. Although I already talked to them about this. They asked nga, "What for?" And I said I was just curious about how it's all going to be like. Besides, I made it clear that I wouldn't do anything that would bother them, or would put me in a bad light to them. I think these are things that can be worked out. To me, this is really just another pictorial, only a little more daring that the others I've done, but nothing that's way overboard.
Okay, it's time to do the real job here, so we'll be very direct: Are we allowed to ask sex questions?
It depends if I can answer it. I'm so corny when it comes to that.
We'll phrase it very nicely: Do you feel more "electricity" now than when you were younger?
I think the word is not really "electricity" but more "confidence." There's a big difference. I think when I was younger I had too many questions. I wasn't really sure of what I wanted to do - I mean I knew what I wanted but I was hesitant on how to get there. You know what I mean? Now, because I've gone through quite a number of things in my life, it builds character. So I'm a little more confident now and sure of who I am.
Yes, we understand. Although we're not sure how exactly we can relate this to sex. We had actually substituted "electricity" for the O-word...
Ha ha! I guess it's a different case for every woman. It's a secret siyempre that I can't share! But I think the confidence part comes with it also - it's in the way I carry myself, with how I look, the way I dress up, down to the smallest detail of the way I carry my hair, the way I walk, the way I move...
So you feel more beautiful now than you've ever felt before?
I guess so, yeah - have you seen my pictures before?! (boisterous laugh again) I had a round face, I had baby fat. Other people dressed me up, telling me how to look. Now I choose my own clothes, I can figure out for myself what I want to look like, so yeah, there's more confidence now.
When you go out in public, how do you handle guys who stare at you differently?
I never feel that they do, believe it or not. I'm so normal. I know they probably recognize me - not that just the guys, even women di ba - but that's about it, because I'm in the business. Thank God I've never had experiences with guys who cross the line.
Okay, on with the job: If you're corny with sex, maybe we can talk about the '80s. We have this strange obsession with '80s era, Pops...
What, with my high hair? The Aquanet hair styles?
That's one of them. Tell us about life then. Penthouse Live!, that stuff.
I was such a little girl, I was so innocent and naive. Actually until recently I was very naive, and sometimes I still am. But those were the fun years, I was excited, I was in the business because, wala lang, it was just my dream. I didn't know any better, I didn't know you had to go through a lot of pain, a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of heartaches - it was all about the excitement of being in the business then. The music was more fun, too, you can still hear the stuff now. I can't say so much about the hair styles because there was so much effort then di ba?
Are you still friends with the guy who styled your hair and gave you your clothes?
Jessie Mendez! Yeah, you know it was uso then eh. What they didn't know was that to get my the hair to be all stiff nilalagyan pa ng beer at iba pang secrets. And those pads that made me look like a football player. Kahit naka-T-shirt kailangan may pads!
Are you still able to look at your beautiful pictures back then?
No, not anymore. Ha ha ha!
Clothes by Juliet & Mini Tan of Better Than Bare
Hair by Ogie Reyes using Kiehl's
Syling: Jun Poblador
Makeup: Xeng Zulueta of Shu Uemura using Rough Limited
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