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Found this pic i took back in 2007... Post Processing saved the day, original was very over exposed...

HER PICTURE graces the walls of airports, Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) offices worldwide, hotel lobbies, board rooms, travel agencies and museums internationally. The red wet T-shirt clinks to her body, caressing her full bosom and perfect 10 figure.

But for 28 years the girl on the poster has remained a mystery.

She is Trinidadian Sintra Arunte-Bronte who caught the eye of a photographer from Doyle Dane, an American advertising company commissioned by the JTB to do the poster, as she stood outside the hotel, now known as Le Meridien Jamaica Pegasus. Sintra was dressed in a close-fitting orange, brown and gold knit top, with a low scooped neckline. The photographer was scouting for a woman who could portray the beauty of an island woman and she was game.

"It took seven and a half hours to capture the right effect. The photographer said to me, 'Sintra I want you to think of the most beautiful thing or person while posing'. I thought of a Jamaican man I had fallen in love with from the first day I set my eyes on him. That picture was dedicated to him and will be for the rest of my life," she said.

The impact of the poster immediately triggered a number of fairytale events in Sintra's life and continue to do so today. A boat owned by a wealthy Montegonian, John McConnell, was named after her, so too was a race horse and two years ago a Swiss company named one of the watches from the Rado line, Sintra.

At a cost of US$2,000 the watch can be bought in a number of inbond stores in Jamaica, including Royal Shop and Swiss stores.

Sintra claimed that other than the few dollars she was paid to model in 1972, she has never received any royalties from the JTB poster.

"The Jamaican Government has said thanks in several ways and I have never asked for money," she said. She has been through some anxious moments having spent four months in intensive care at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, leaving an medical bill of thousands of United States dollars.

Source: www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20010202/show/show1.html

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