Prick Magazine - Brandi C. Feature

BRANDI C.
ROCK OF LOVE

Famous Ink
by Lisa Sharer
Photos courtesy of Brandi C.
From the November 2007 issue of PRICK Magazine.

Contender for the heart of Bret Michaels on VH1's Rock of Love – this rock may not have found love, but she did find a new career. Known for her "tit mouse" voice and rockin' body, Brandi C. took a few minutes to show PRICK a different side.

Give me a brief bio on yourself.

Gosh, I'm terrible at explaining anything, let alone talking about myself. Let's see—I am 20-ish, blonde, wild and crazy, yet a sweet and caring girl from the South. I grew up in Florida and moved to L.A. two years ago to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, after doing theme park entertainment for four and a half years. My favorite place is Disneyland, my favorite animal is any type of cat, a tiger, etc… and I love the color pink. I have a very eclectic taste in movies and music, my favorite date is staying in watching DVDs and drinking wine, and I love sushi and Mexican food the best. I, 100% believe in astrology and tarot cards, I'm a total Sagittarius, and I can never date Taurus men. My biggest pet peeves are people who don’t use proper grammar, people who don't let me out of an elevator before they get in, and people who wear sunglasses indoors. Everything else I can usually tolerate.

How many tattoos do you have? Tell me about them.

I have three. Cat paws prints on my right foot because I love cats, and I thought that having paw/foot prints on my foot was kind of ironic and funny. My second tattoo was a little red heart on my ring finger knuckle. I got it with a boy, and after we grew apart I used to try and cover it up with rings and stuff because it isn't the best quality, especially since it's on my knuckle... but he passed away in 2003, so I haven't covered it since. I will only cover it with jewelry when I get married and, obviously, wear a wedding ring. The third one is my largest; it is on my lower abdomen. It started out as two hearts, one an angel and one a devil. [It's a] theme symbolizing that people have both good and evil inside of them and what matters is which one you choose to act on, which in itself is an indirect Harry Potter message (I’m a total Harry Potter nerd). I added the centerpiece "heartbreaker" a few years ago because it went with the fact that there were already hearts, and I wanted something filling it in. Plus I am a total heartbreaker. Beware.

Do you think you might have gotten Bret's name tattooed on your neck if you had stayed longer?

No way! Tattooing a name is never a good idea, never, especially in the case of "love." My dad has his own name tattooed on his arm, I don't even know why! I guess in case he forgets it?

Do you plan on getting more tattoos in the future?

It's a possibility. I love tattoos but it has to be something I feel like getting. It needs to be something I've thought about for a while and really want. I've gotten some flack in the past for different modeling jobs who didn't want girls with tattoos, but I'm not worried about it because I am me, and if a job doesn't want me to be myself then I don't need to be doing it. Plus if it's print work there's always airbrushing!

Do you think you were represented fairly on the show?

Yes. I love the way I'm represented on the show. It made me look a lot dumber than I am, but I'm used to that in the real world. People make assumptions automatically and go with it, and most of the time I will let them because I'm too lazy to put forth the effort to prove them wrong. Plus, most of the time it works out in my favor because people do things for me that are mundane and boring, such as filling out paperwork at the DMV or finding something at the grocery store. My real friends, family, and relationships are the people that take the time to get to know the real me and see what I'm really like, and that is when I will also put forth the effort. I'm picky about people usually. That's why on the show I really only hung out with Kristia, Heather, and Lacey. I still hang out with them to this day; we are all really good friends. I wouldn’t have put forth the effort of getting to know them or them getting to know me if I didn’t think that it would be a long lasting friendship.

What has your life been like since you've been on a reality T.V. show?

Insanity. It's a good thing, but I have been really, crazy busy since March basically. We taped in March, and after it was a lot of preparation, then when it aired there was soooo much press and publicity for the show. Add that to trying to do different things for myself, and it was a lot of work. I was lucky to have a publicist who could help me out with setting up interviews and such because I’m not very good at organization and setting things up myself. Haha. Since we just ended the series it will die down a little, but that just means that I need to start working on more projects, and other avenues I want to try out. It’s a crazy, busy life - but I love it.

What are your plans for the future?

Well, I love to act. I really do. It's fun to be someone else and play a character. I've always dabbled in modeling as well—so any opportunities to take pictures, I'm down. I've definitely always wanted to do Playboy magazine, so hopefully I will get the chance soon. I'm talking to a new agent, so we will see where that road takes me. I’ve also recently thought about singing, I've never tried it before but it’s something I’ve always had in the back of my mind. I figure I'll take some voice lessons, see what I can do and if it happens to be amazing then sweet! I want to be in a band though, not just me singing. Something like Paramore, meets Britney Spears, meets Flyleaf-ish type sounding. Who knows, I just like to try different things, and I love to entertain. I want to be 85 years old and look back knowing that I tried everything I wanted to when I could. I also have plans for world domination, but that's a whole other story.