Give her a hand -- please!
Kimbra Hickey wants some recognition for her pinky-size role in the "Twilight" phenomenon.
Hers are the slender, ghostly hands cupping a red apple on the now-famous cover of the first hit book by Stephenie Meyer.
But Hickey's lack of fame has her cracking her knuckles in frustration.
"It was major exposure for my hands," said the petite, 40-year-old model. "But nobody knew who I was."
So Hickey now stops anyone she sees reading the book to inform them of her contribution.
"I see people reading it on the subway, and I say, 'Those are my hands! I'm a hand model!' " she explained. "I'm sure they think I'm crazy -- a crazy lady on the subway."
ANGEL CHEVRESTT
CAN YOU DIGIT? The "Twilight" cover features the fingers of Kimbra Hickey, a Village model.
The good-natured Hickey sometimes hangs out near the cash register at the Barnes & Noble near her Greenwich Village apartment to spread the word. Surprised customers sometimes ask her for her autograph or to trace the outline of her hand on the book jacket.
She even carries around a Gala apple in her purse at times so she can recreate the pose for people.
"It was too big of a deal just to let it be," she said, although she admitted that she has become "a little goofy" about the whole thing.
Hickey is a massage therapist who works a few days each month as a "parts models."
It's her size-6 feet -- not her hands -- that land her most of her modeling gigs. Her tootsies have graced a Times Square billboard and the cover of magazines, she said.
"I never see myself as having perfect hands," she explained. "I guess I'm just lucky that they photograph well."
Hickey's agent, Danielle Korwin, said her hands are in demand because they are "veinless" -- not the sort of hands a vampire would like.
The 2004 photo shoot for the "Twilight" book cover paid $300 -- the industry standard for two hours of work. Hickey had to file her nails extra short so her tiny hands didn't look like an adult's.
Lately, she's been going to "Twilight" fan conventions -- she's at one this weekend in Portland, Ore. -- where she sells apple-scented hand lotion.
So far, she knows of four "Twihards" -- as the vampire-romance fans are called -- who've gotten tattoos of her hands.
Her goal is to break into acting. She's trying to contact the casting director for the fourth installment in the "Twilight" series.
"If I could get a little background part, it would be fantastic," she said -- "even if they only wanted my hands in it."
‘Twilight’ Cover Hand Model is ‘Breaking’ Her Silence
Kimbra Hickey is the very first thing new Twilight fans see when they start reading Stephenie Meyer’s book series.
Well, at least parts of Kimbra Hickey.
Her hands are the ones holding a red apple on the mega-bestseller’s famous cover.
“It was major exposure for my hands. But nobody knew who I was,” she tells the New York Post.
“I see people reading it on the subway, and I say, ‘Those are my hands! I’m a hand model!’”
“I’m sure they think I’m crazy — a crazy lady on the subway.”
Now the New Yorker occasionally offers autographs near her local bookstore’s cash register when someone picks up a copy of the book. She also attends fan conventions, where she markets hand lotion — apple-scented, of course.
She’s expressed interest in being cast in theBreaking Dawn movie, “even if they only wanted my hands in it.”
Hickey got $300 for the 2004 photo shoot that became Twilight’s cover and says she’s aware of at least four fans who have tattoos of her famous mitts.
As it happens, Hickey’s hands aren’t just for “looking.”
She’s also a massage therapist.
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