More Than a Twerker: The Anastasia Ashley Podcast | Talks stalkers, butt callouses, sexuality in surfing, +
The very lovely Rory Parker of BeachGrit fame got the big brained intelligence of Anastasia Ashley on his Everything Is Terrible surf podcast. No you read that right, Anastasia didn’t get over one million Instagram followers just by being a pretty face. She works her ass off (yes, literally and figuratively), has a business plan, and is as smart as they come.
Anastasia may have first popped up on your radar when her twerking, pre-surf warm-up for a Californian girls pro surf competition went viral, but that was no accident. She’s been playing this game for over 20-years now and all that social media business is more calculated than one would think.
There is a heavy price to pay for living your life out on social media, especially as a gorgeous female. Anastasia talks about dealing with stalkers, having no privacy, and more. Just look at what happened to the poor Kim Kardashian the other day getting held up at gunpoint in Paris. Scary business. Never ‘real-time’ your posts on social media is one of the rules she plays by to avoid the darker side of fame.
Don’t miss this podcast, especially if you had some pre-conceived notions that Anastasia was just another hot body that can’t surf that well or doesn’t work for her sponsorships. She will quickly change your mind:
“Episode Five of Everything is Always Terrible features none other than the superb Ms Anastasia Ashley.
Semi-professional surfer, successful model, social media superstar, Ms Ashley is a fascinating woman. Despite a public persona that tends toward the happy-go-lucky-beach-babe, it is immediately apparent that she is anything but.
Anastasia is a driven woman. Totally focused on her success and career, to the exclusion of almost everything else. I would never trade lives with Anastasia Ashley. Success is honorable, and nothing good comes easy. But at a certain point I feel the price becomes too high.
I went in to this expecting to speak with an intelligent woman. I was not expecting to speak with a woman in possession of a single minded drive toward her goals. Anastasia sells her persona well.
Over the course of an hour we touched on surfing big waves, her near total lack of a private life, stalkers, sexy sexy John John Florence, butt callouses, sexuality in women’s surfing, and the high high high price of fame.”
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