But slowly, I came out of my shell, and became braver to the point where I was comfortable approaching pretty much anybody.īy the time I was 16, I knew I had something that nobody else had – and that it could attract men.ĭid you date a lot in your teenage years? Even when I modeled for the magazines, it took a while to accept myself. My body was ahead of my brain’s self-realization. And anyway, you’re lucky to have those breasts. He’d say, “You must stand up straight so you don’t impair your health. I used to slouch to try and keep attention off of me. I had another doctor who’d tell me to pull my shoulders back. I was just too young to deal with what was happening. If guys tried to touch me, and they did, she would smack them. I was afraid of boys when I went out, so I’d only go out with my best friend. My breasts meant I wasn’t treated the same, and I got too much attention. When I was young, I just wanted to be like everybody else. He said that basically I was going to be a big busted lady. And he just said, “What’s your problem? Every woman wishes she had that problem!” I told him about what was happening and asked him if I had some kind of hormone imbalance. Starting around age 14, mine just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. With my friends, their breasts would shrink back down when their period was over but that didn’t happen to me. For most girls, each month when we get our periods, our breasts get a little bigger. Get in!”Īs a pin-up model later on in your life, you were known for being voluptuous. After the show when we were leaving the venue, their limo pulled up, the door flew open and the band said “It’s you. I was smart enough to get third row seats and wear a very low-cut top. Yes! When I was in high school, Led Zeppelin came to America for the first time. And we met Alice Cooper too.Īnd so your career of meeting musicians started…! I don’t know who they are, I don’t care who they are, but they gotta be cool! They were so good. And I thought, “I’ve never seen anybody’s hair go all the way down to their butt. I bought their album without ever hearing it or knowing who they were just because I saw a picture of them, and their hair went down to their butts… just like mine. Hundreds… My friend Rio and I were both in high school, and I remember the first time, when we went to Virginia and saw Alice Cooper. They’d ask, “Who’s gonna escort you?” But I was like, “Who cares! I’ve gotta see The Kinks. When the British groups started coming to America, I’d do anything to make enough money to buy tickets to see them.Įven though my parents loved music, they didn’t want me to go to shows because I was so young. Music was my gateway to everything and everyone. Like everybody else my age, it started with The Beatles. Not exactly… when I was a kid I was infatuated with the British invasion. My father was a good guitarist too.ĭid you liked the same music that your parents liked? My mother was in a group called the Johnson Sisters, and they performed at openings, parties and fairs. Yes, a sister – and she had beautiful red hair too.ĭid you get your love of music from your parents? I told my parents I didn’t like that because I wasn’t fat like a pumpkin – so they come up with ‘Little Rusty’ instead. My dad had a bunch of people who worked for him, and any time I stopped by the company office, they would say I was “cute as a little pumpkin” because of my red hair. And that’s where I got my nickname Rusty. And my mother worked for him, although they were also musicians on the side. My father had his own business – a sheet metal company. And I never corrected them because I didn’t want anyone to trace me back to my family in North Carolina… But really, I’m a proud North Carolinian. They said Georgia because I lived in Atlanta before I moved to New York, and it was easy to say I was a Georgia Peach. Good question…! All the magazines back in the 1970s said I was from Georgia, but I’m actually from North Carolina. Remarkably, this high-profile dual career was only a small part of Cherry Bomb’s life: she was a regular at Andy Warhol’s Factory, dated musicians like Dennis Wilson and Keith Moon, appeared in the cult X-rated film Chorus Call (1978) as well as several loops, had her own clothing business, and was a stripper.īut perhaps her highest profile came when she joined the cult rock band Thor, one of the great near-miss groups of the 1980s – and married the lead singer.įor the first time, Cherry Bomb tells her eventful life story to The Rialto Report. One moment she’d be adorning the pages in teasing pictorials the next she be reporting backstage from concerts featuring then-up-and-coming rock stars like the Police, Ted Nugent, or the Buzzcocks. Cherry bomb (noun): a round, red, powerful firecrackerĬherry Bomb was all over men’s magazines in the 1970s and 80s – Cheri, Oui, and countless others – both as a model and as a roving rock reporter.
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