CAREER: Kasia has lots of offers for work
STUNNING: Kasia poses for sexy photoshoot
CLASSY: Kasia poses for Playboy
WOW! Lads will be queuing up to have their nails done after seeing these sizzling pictures.
Beautician Kasia Halela looks set to become an international glamour model after posing for Playboy.
These sensational photos were taken for a sexy new calendar due out in 2015.
The photoshoot was so successful the 27-year-old babe has now been invited to pose for German Playboy magazine, following in the footsteps of former Miss World Rosanna Davison, and Polish Playboy.
And the Romanian edition of the girlie mag is also champing at the bit to get the dark-haired beauty on its pages.
It’s a whole new world for Polish-born Kasia, who moved to Ireland seven years ago and now runs her own beauty business, Euphoria Salon in Malahide, north Co. Dublin.
The 5ft 7in stunner got a taste for modelling after coming second in the Sunday World’s Miss Bronz’ Express contest earlier this year and winning the Miss Bikini Vanilla Nightclub title.
Kasia says she was first approached about posing for Playboy by well-known Polish photographer Andrzej Brzezinski on Facebook several weeks ago.
Bubbly Kasia says: “I was so happy. He is famous in Poland and I knew his work.”
She flew to Poland with a girlfriend, who was with her throughout the shoot.
“There were five people on the set, makeup, stylist and hairdresser, and he was the only man,” says Kasia.
“I was not really nervous. I had decided to make more of myself than beauty contests and I felt old enough and confident enough to do it.
“Years ago there would have been no way. I would not strip for a photoshoot.”
Kasia said her former Polish boyfriend did not like her modelling, but her current squeeze of three years, a Dublin businessman called Lee, backed her all the way and filled her with confidence.
“He is my biggest supporter. I was not confident before, but he was always telling me I was really good. He is not jealous at all.”
The shoot shoot took 10 hours, from 10am to 8pm, and was very tough but enjoyable, says Kasia.
“There was no rushing and everything took ages to set up. I had never had a photoshoot like it. The poses may look easy, but some of them were hard.”
Kasia, who speaks fluent Polish, Russian and English as well as some German, says she was thrilled with the results – and so was her boyfriend.
But the big hurdle was telling her mother Anna (50), who also now lives in Dublin.
“I was really afraid about telling her. I said ‘I have to show you something that people might see’.
“Her reaction was great and she loved the pictures. She telephoned my granny and said I was going to be in a magazine, although she didn’t tell her which one.”
Kasia says doing these shots for the Playboy calendar had opened up doors she never dreamt of.
Later this month she will be flying to Cancun, Mexico, to do another calendar.
Then, in December, she will travel to Poland to do a Playboy magazine shoot before posing for German Playboy in January.
“The German magazine is very well paid – up to €2,000 a picture – and they usually use about eight photos.”
Kasia says being able to take time off to model was one of the reasons she set up her own business a year ago.
“Lee also encouraged me to do it. It was very hard at the start, but is now going well. I am a good businesswoman.”
Kasia says she had no moral problem about posing naked.
“For some people glamour modelling is tacky, but I am a classy glamour model. The photos I’ve done are classy and I love looking at them. I am very happy.
“Fashion models are tall and skinny and that’s not me.”
Kasia, whose late father was a champion Polish runner, says she has no problems keeping fit and did gymnastics all through her college years.
jim.gallagher@sundayworld.com