A pretty face may get you in the door, but a hustler’s ambition will take you to the penthouse. For 20-year-old, Tierra Cobb, the grind is an extension of who she is as a go-getter. With a mind of a champion, this buxom beauty does not care what you think or what you may say.

The stubborn Taurus with the comedic timing of a young Wanda Sykes, Ms. Tierra Cobb is an interesting choice for Beauty & Brains. You’ll find that to be true, as in this interview, the Washington vixen talks about the horrors of growing up young and thick, speaks on her financial dominatrix business and – spoiler alert – her upcoming marriage!

Beauty & Brains: You can’t possibly be 20 and be as thick as you are!
Tierra Cobb: I don’t know. I get that a lot, actually. I just laugh about it. I’ve always hung out with older people, though. I guess I’ve matured a lot faster than everyone else. I went through things that people never could really imagine.

B&B: What about when people try to get with you and they realize you’re a youngin’…?
TC: They back up for a second and remind themselves that they’re talking to a 20-year-old. I don’t think most people could handle that. I was raised by my grandmother and mother. I had to take care of myself. My dad wasn’t really around to keep the boys away from me; I fended for myself.

B&B: Well, physical aside, you say that you’re a shy girl… How can you be shy and a model?
TC: I also used to be a stripper. No one believed me when I did that. I danced for a year. I had never been introduced to drugs before and that was all that you see there. My first time seeing cocaine and prostituting was when I worked there and it was scary. I grew up faster than the average and I knew I wasn’t supposed to be doing that, so I stayed away from all those things. I just loved making money. I want to be comfortable. I don’t want to worry about overdrawing my account or not having enough to do things that I like.

B&B: But pornos pay good money too…
TC: I draw the line at doing those. I would never do that. I am a financial dominatrix. These guys just call in to let me humiliate them and they love it enough to pay me. These guys are losers who just like being made fun of. At first, when I got on bored, it was weird to comprehend. But in the end, it’s not that different than the strip club. They just want to throw their money away and they feel that Black women are superior to them, already, so I am an extension of their fetishes.

B&B: I’m pretty sure you’ve pissed off plenty a housewife…?
TC: I have a female slave and she’s cool. But to see that a woman is into giving me money to make sure that I don’t have to work is sexy.

B&B: Your family never had a problem seeing his lil’ baby so open?
TC: My mom does. I don’t know what to tell her. I make a lot of money and I talk to my step-dad about it. I actually did quit when I got engaged. I had to regroup and realize that I was getting married.

B&B: Does she still have a problem?
TC: She still does, but I guess she deals with it. I don’t know how she found out about my website. We actually didn’t talk for awhile. I know she just tolerates what I’m doing. My mom thinks that she is in control and I don’t know what to tell her [laughs], but she’s not. My mom is more of my friend than my mother, but I love her and never want to see her upset.

B&B: So, how does your job affect your engagement?
TC: No one knows about him, but I guess I should come out and say that I have been dating my main photographer and we got engaged last October. Not too many people know about it. I wasn’t even going to talk about it, but you know what, I don’t care! You can’t date a guy outside of modeling because the guys don’t understand. I was doing my thing and my last guy went psycho. I just think that guys can handle their woman making more money than they do.

B&B: When’s the wedding?
TC: We’re getting married on June 28th. People talk about my age, but I don’t care. We just click. Even on our first photo shoot, they were calling us "Bonnie & Clyde." I’ve shot my best pictures with him. The chemistry is ill between us.

B&B: But people who think that you’re just a girl with blessed assets wouldn’t think any different about your career?
TC: I want to be able to help girls in Washington get modeling jobs. There’s not a lot of work out here for them. If you want to get in then you have to fly all around the States to get some work and I don’t fly! I have had photographers fly-in to take pictures of me. I really try to do everything for myself. When you make money doing what I do, I don’t feel like having to share all that with anyone else [laughs]. Continued on page 2 »