You probably don’t know Kimbra Hickey’s name. You don’t know her face. You’ve probably never seen her in your life, but you know her hands. We all know her hands. Kimbra Hickey is the person behind the hands on the cover of Twilight. That’s right, Kimbra Hickey IS Twilight Hands, and she wants to sell you an autograph.
Of course, fame is hard to grasp when you’re an anonymous hand model, but that $300 hand modeling session holding a Gala apple has made Hickey’s hands a household… appendage? “I see people reading it on the subway, and I say, ‘Those are my hands! I’m a hand model!’ ” explained the 40-year-old massage therapist and part-time parts model. “I’m sure they think I’m crazy — a crazy lady on the subway.”
Then again, she carries a Gala apple around in her purse to recreate her most famous cover pose, so I can see why people think she’s crazy. Her hands aren’t even her most bankable feature; she makes most of her modeling money as a size six shoes model, where she’s been on billboards in Times Square and on magazine covers. Still, she’s at Twilight conventions every weekend, hawking apple-scented hand lotion in an attempt to cash in on her fame.
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