Not too many woman can boast a 34-28-45 frame, but Buffie “The Body” Carruth and her endless curves love every ounce of the attention it garners. The video vixen/model and sometimes actress has parlayed what is usually considered to be a short-lived career into a viable brand-name. You can find her plastered on the screen-savers of cell phones just as easily as the cover of a magazine. And it doesn’t stop there.

Adopting her entrepreneurial spirit, Ms. Buffie has taken on the new role of author with her new e-book titled Get Your Mind Right: A Step-By-Step Look at the Modeling Career of Buffie the Body.

Recently, HipHopDX sat down with the buxom beauty to dish about her accidental road to stardom, critics of her profession, the real story behind her rumored romance with Gucci Mane, and getting the cold shoulder from fellow model Melyssa Ford.

HIpHopDX: For those who aren’t familiar with your background, how did you get your start as a model/ video vixen?
Buffie: I really wasn’t tryin’ to be a model. That was the crazy thing about all of this. I wasn’t trying to be a model. I was in Baltimore hangin’ out with one of my friends and I met a photographer at the club. I said, “I need some pictures of myself just for my own personal use.” So the photographer and I did a photo shoot the next day. He said he would send me the pics on disk, and when I got back [home] I realized that before he had even mailed them to me, he took them and put them online without my permission—that’s how this whole thing started.

DX: Were you mad at him for posting the pictures without your permission?
B: I was real upset in the beginning. Then when I saw the response the pictures were getting, I was like, maybe I’m not so upset. [Laughs]

DX: So it wasn’t your initial dream to be a model?
B: No, I hadn’t even thought about it. Most of the models in the videos in that day were never my size. You didn’t see girls with my complexion, or my size being on the cover of King or Black Men. Now that I think of it, I was the first girl of my complexion to be on the cover of King. I think I’ve changed the game a lot ‘cause before me, you didn’t see girls like that.

DX: And how are you handling the fame of being known within the Hip Hop industry?
B: I’m just blessed. I’m really, really, really blessed and thankful that it’s been over four years now and I’m still able to make money and be featured on the cover of magazines. The average video girl has six months to a year [of fame] before they’re gone, so it’s a blessing to even still be around going on four years.

DX: Last time you talked to DX [click to read] you were trying to transition into some acting, how’s that been going for you?
B: The only acting I’ve done was an independent film in Chicago back in 2007. That’s the only acting gig I’ve had since the cameo in ATL.

DX: Would you like to do more acting roles? Or is it something you just sporadically do on the side?
B: Really, what happened with the people in Chicago was that they called me for the job. They hit me up on my email and that’s how I ended up in that role. I’m not taking any acting classes or anything. So it’s usually only when people reach out to me…I was actually considered to be in the Biggie movie to play one of the video girls sittin’ by the pool or something, but I was booked and I couldn’t be in New York when they needed me to be.

DX: So basically acting isn’t something you are actively pursuing.
B: Nope. If it happens it happens but I just got so many other things going on. If you ask any model what else they wanna do, they say acting. And there are so many of the model/actresses that you gotta wonder how many of them can actually act? Of course if someone wants me in a film, I’ll do it. But as far as taking all my time and devoting myself to acting classes; I’m not doing that at all.

DX: I know that you are a former exotic dancer, but does it ever concern you that some people think of you solely as a sex object?
B: Um. No. It’s a blessing to be sexy and to have people view me as sexy, so I don’t look at it as a negative thing at all. I think it’s a good thing.

DX: As a woman myself, I agree that anyone that says they don’t want to be considered attractive or sexy is lying; that’s just BS. But at the same time there is a difference between someone who is “sexy” and someone who is a “sex object”. I also write a blog on DX, and I went to the readers and told them whoever provided the best questions for you, I would ask them during the interview…and about a total of 100 people replied from DX and a couple forums the blog was reposted on and 99% of the responses given were either some variation of “what could we possibly ask a ‘video hoe’?” or asking you really derogatory, graphic, sexual questions… That doesn’t bother you?
B: No. I look at myself as a smart female. And I tell other females and models all the time that there’s nothing wrong with being sexy. Threes nothing wrong with guys going crazy over you. There’s nothing wrong with that. God made every individual an individual. So I’ve never seen anything wrong with being sexy or having men wanting you or women wanting to be like you, or be shaped like you. I have no problem with that at all. None whatsoever. But I tell other models all the time: being beautiful and sexy is not gonna take you to the next level. Its not gonna ensure that you have a successful modeling career. At some point you have to start using your brain. 'cause it don’t take a lot to be beautiful. It doesn’t take a lot to be sexy. I’m just being Buffie. I’m just me. But mentally you have to say, “I got the physical part on lock; now I have to use my brain,” because when you have both you have the total package. Continued on page 2 »