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5727 Dah Calendar features photo of future Consort
Image Captured in August on Luxon Swell
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
January 5, 5727


Ms. Casey Leigh-Campbell shreds on the Luxon Swell late last summer while modelling Dah Wetsuits

"It was really fun and it wasn't something I would ever have pictured myself doing," said Ms. Casey Leigh-Campbell of posing for the 5727 Dah Calendar. The future Princess Consort was interviewed at her townhome in the Wilson Hill neighborhood of Kaliburg earlier this week. Leigh-Campbell was commissioned by the Surf Company to model Dah Wetsuits in their popular annual calendar which usually features fitness models and professionals. "I was approached last August after I got out of the service, and Dah asked me to model on an incidental basis. Of course, it was cleared with House Ananto, who told me that Anantos were no strangers to Dah surfwear, and we were cleared to take the photos. And now my picture is going to be hanging up on the wall of more or less every surfer's living room, mechanic shop and teenaged boy's bed room in the entire empire. For the month of February, at least."

Ms. Leigh-Campbell said she is an excellent surfer. "I did spend most of my teenaged years surfing and smoking herb in Sulari," says the decorated veteran turned "incidental pin up model." "But before this picture I never surfed the Swell. It was a bit late in the season and the waves were only running about 15 feet, but it turns out it was a perfect day for taking action photos, and the cameraman took some really pretty shots. It was very exciting. It was like I had the whole beach to myself that day and the only other people out there were the camera and safety crews."

Ms. Leigh-Campbell was very proud of her work for Dah and the photo that was chosen to appear in the calendar. "It's very pretty and really captures me in mid carve as I am coming out of that tube. Of course its really well retouched, it almost looks like a painting." She is glad they let her dress in a full body wetsuit. "Well, it was pretty cold that day. The ocean was still warm, but the air was like in the upper sixties, because it was so late in the season. So I was snug as a bug. And these clothes are really conservative too, which just made me feel comfortable. But I mean, some of the other pictures in the calendar... I don't really think I could get away with some of those. I'm a little bit bigger girl, and I think if I wore what the girl in August was wearing, it would be a scandal... They might not let me marry Willy if I wore something like that." She kind of laughed, "Well, 'wearing' is a very loose term... When you all see her, you'll know what I mean."

She said that besides her modelling fee, which was more than she would have asked, she also got to keep the wetsuit and the surfboard she rode on. "I don't usually ride the shorter boards," she said. "The one I was on was for competition, and of course, because Dah sponsors athletes, so now I have one too." She said she looks forward to surfing on the Swell once again next year. "Over in Kalistan, we only get like the after effects. There are only really good surfing waves from Dana north, but that water is pretty cold year round. Here in Luxon of course, we get the water from Gaduridos and it just slams into Southern Ananto, and that causes the Swell, so I really want to surf here when the Swell is up around July and August. So I am going to start surfing in maybe May and get used to it as it builds. It's really every surfer's dream, to be completely honest."

Ms. Leigh-Campbell says she probably won't do any more modelling. "I'm not really a model, I mean, that's not what I think of myself. This was a fun thing to kind of cross off my list and now I've done it. Besides: You can't have a Consort selling surfwear. I'm probably going to have to keep my clothes on from now on." She laughed. "Oh, hahaha, that sounded wrong. I mean to say I'm not going to be appearing in any more calendars in the future. We'll leave that for the professionals." Ms. Leigh-Campbell's Suldanoran good looks and winning personality have anchored sales, with calendar sales doubling last year's edition already. "Apparently people like the photo," said Ms. Leigh-Campbell. "That's exciting for me. My fiancé is one of the people who has bought the calendar already: I know because I signed my photo for him on Day 1." She smiled.

"Maybe next year he'll get out there with me," she said. "5727 is the year William Ananto learns to surf."

@LaModa