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The
spread features Moore in military drag, with her dark
brown hair slicked back and tucked into a camouflage cap. In
the opening shot she sports dog tags, fatigues and police-chic
oversized shades. Her sultry mouth is open and one of her hands
looks like it’s about to grab her tongue. It’s not
entirely clear what the other hand is about to do, with the
thumb tucked under her waistband and the other four fingers
resting on her crotch as she leans back in a chair.
Ever
versatile, Moore can pull off a macho look—combat boots
and masculine stances, a lit cigarette pursed between her lips—as
fluently as she hits a note of retro glamour, with her hair
swept upwards and pinned back ’40s-style. Her jaw is square,
her chin slightly cleft, eyebrows thick and nose possibly chiseled
by the same sculptor responsible for Joaquin Phoenix’s.
Her deep-set dark brown eyes convey a confident elegance. You’d
never guess she is one to goof off and shadow-box the cameraman
for a news crew during downtime on the set.
It
was a real punch that Moore reportedly threw at a romantic rival
in a Union Square bar a few years later, knocking him to the
ground. In August 2003 the New York Post ran a story
on Moore with the sensationalist headline “Lesbian Beauty
Strikes Back” and the opener “Sexy lesbian Vogue
cover girl Amanda Moore punched out a man who's been making
time with her girlfriend the other night.” The
girlfriend in question was Kate Young, a former staff member
at Vogue. Just four days before the Post story, Moore
and then-girlfriend Young were featured in the New York
Metro magazine cover story "Sexiest New York Couples,"
and the two had done a photo shoot together for veteran fashion
magazine iD.
As
the New York Post article illustrates, Moore's rapid
rise to fame hasn't always been smooth. "I'm really struggling
to be myself and to remember that [modeling] is just a job,"
she told The Fashion Wire in a 2001 interview. "There
were times when I forgot to be grateful for what I have, and
luckily I've been reminded of that. When I leave this world
I want to be remembered as a person who had a good job and was
good to people." That included buying her family a new
pickup truck, one of the first things she had intended to do
with the money from her modeling career.
She
didn't have to wait long: within three years of the Orlando
trip, Moore had landed in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar,
French Vogue, Allure, and Pop, in
spreads shot by the hottest photographers in the fashion industry.
She also landed prestigious campaigns for the likes of DKNY,
D&G, Hilfiger and Armani.
In
2004 she attained the ultimate hallmark of supermodel status:
appearing in the Pirelli calendar.
