Part of the Viva!Moda interview with Jac. Full translation can be read here
Advertising clients treat you differently since you’ve grown up?
Yes, only those who like me for who I’m and not because I’m “in” have stayed. When I started there was a “boom”. Some wanted to hire me just because others worked with me. Many offers of commercial work have appeared recently. They make me feel more secure. The contracts are stable and predictable, photoshoots start at 9 am and end at 6 pm. It’s kind of like getting a stable work contact after years of temporary contracts. In the world of high fashion it happens that you work in a studio for the whole week and in the end the photos are not published and you get 100 euro.
In our shoot you’re naked. You keep on doing this kind of editorials more often than you used in the past.
Yes. And I like it. I did this kind of shoots when I was younger, but they’re more important to me now. To be honest I feel more comfortable without any clothes than in overcomplicated ones. The most important part is to know the intentions of a photographer. If I sense, the photographer doesn’t want to create a masterpiece, he just wants to see me naked, I refuse to do the shoot. When it comes to the art I have no limits. During summer I did a ver daring editorial for Anja Rubik’s 25 Magazine. I had some doubts I revealed too much and I’m still not sure I did the right thing. Photos were taken by Johan Lindeberg, she made the studio in his apartment. It was a fantastically organized shoot. Before he invited me he did some tests with other model. In this editorial I appear naked in two versions: as a very confident woman in the perfect hair and makeup and sauté, with no retouching. I’m very curious about the final result.
As a teenager were you sometimes sent away by the photographers?
Yes. Once I was sent to a casting to Inez & Vinoodh. I took my book and went straight to their house. Someone opened the door, I said why I was there. One look at my book and they slammed the door in my face. They had the rule they didn’t work with underage models. Actually I think they are right about it.
Right about it?
I started my career really early but I was lucky enough I was never put in uncomfortable situation. I did some amazing shoots for Chanel, but I was never forced to take my clothes off with no good reason. Years passing I got a perspective that girls who don’t’ know from their own experience what sexuality really is shouldn’t pose naked. They pretend something they have no idea about. And it’s not good neither for art, neither for the models.
Some people while watching your pictures say your waist is a result of the photoshop, it’s impossible to have one like yours.
But it’s possible, it’s the genes. There’s a story in my family that when the parents of my dad met my grandpa’s hands could meet around my grandma’s waist – it was so small. So I got my grandma’s waist and my dad’s height.
she's really with the genes!!!
My dad is a big man, so he has huge hands, I guess Monika's grandfather too... 
