A Joyce to work with

People Asia brims with pure Joyce this October, with a more alluring Joyce Jimenez on the cover. In a six-page pictorial by lensman Raymund Isaac, Philippine cinema’s sex goddess bares for the first time her 100-pound figure. Joyce used to weigh between 110 and 130, and this is the first time she is showing off her new form.

Shooting Joyce was a visual delight for Raymund Isaac, who majored in film at De La Salle.

"You are so beautiful," he would coo, sometimes, curse, as he trained his cameras on Joyce during the People Asia pictorial at the Shiraz restaurant on Perea street in Makati.

So how it is like to photograph Joyce Jimenez?

"It’s like playing with a woman who doesn’t know she is a woman. A woman largely unaware of the power of her beauty, and that it is leaving many people around her breathless," says Raymund.

For writer Scott Garceau, who had Joyce to himself for a one-on-one, the actress "is in truth, a package of contradictions: willing to bare all yet still impossibly girlish, thin yet strikingly busty, petite yet larger than life when the cameras roll, aware of her image yet claiming no particular control over it."

For People Asia staff members, Joyce is a joy to work with. Like she did for their past pictorials (the second pictorial at Caylabne Bay in Cavite required a call time of 6 a.m. and Joyce arrived at the meeting place before the writer, photographer and stylist). At the Shiraz restaurant, she arrived 15 minutes before the call time. She hates making people wait for her and on her, and so to fast-track sequences she would sometimes change tops (made especially by Sari-Sari) on the set, deftly maneuvering her arms through sleeves and her neck through collars, much to the dismay of Peeping Toms.

Joyce, whose face has the pristine beauty of a girl and whose body screams with the sensuality of a woman, dresses the way she looks. For one, she likes to wear candy-colored panties plucked from the girls’ section of department stores, with designs of Pokemon, Power Puff Girls and other cartoon characters (one even had the Tasmanian Devil).

And her mind? In the piece written by Scott Garceau, you will find out that the most provocative part of Joyce Jimenez may well be above her shoulders.

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