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...TIME: So when you pose nude, it's actually an empowerment message? Kyoko: Yes. In nude portraits, there's porn and there's art. We consider what we do art, and we think of ourselves as art objects. I direct all our projects, do the styling myself, pick photographers and locations. No nipples, no pubic hair. We think we happen to look more beautiful with our clothes off than on. And we don't really care if others approve. To the Japanese, we look like anime characters anyway. Most stars here look like the girls next door. But Mika looks...
...around, my waist 57 cm, hips 91 cm. I know that's unusual for a Japanese woman. I used to hate the way I looked when everyone else is so skinny. I dieted so much that my periods stopped. Finally my sister convinced me to be what I am. Kyoko: If you're asking about plastic surgery: Our feeling is that it's not a bad thing if it makes you feel better about yourself. But in Japan, there is still a strong stigma against it. So we don't want to say whether we have or haven...
...TIME: Why do you want to leave Japan? Kyoko: Our fame is suffocating for us. Journalists will write anything about us because they know our names will sell magazines. Just this week, a weekly magazine said it had a huge scoop about Mika -- and it turned out to be a publicity photo of her swinging a golf club at a charity tournament, in which you could see a faint outline of her nipples. Some scoop. Japan is a small country. People can't help but be obsessed with what other people are thinking or doing. The media asks us what...
...TIME: Hollywood? Kyoko: Certainly. There are many U.S. movies we admire -- Jackie Brown, the 007 series -- and we'd love to work in that realm. 20th Century Fox made us "honorary Bond girls" to promote its last film; the director of "Rush Hour" says he may want to cast us in the next installment [which may be partially set in Japan]. I would say the star we most admire is Sophia Loren. We have attended four Academy Awards shows, Cannes, and others, and we have seen her at some of them. She has an unbelievable aura...
...TIME: What exactly would that involve? Kyoko: The melding the Asian and Western cultures, is maybe the best way to put it. Our work could extend to food, store or restaurant design, selling a line of cosmetics, using our tastes. Like your Martha Stewart, but not, obviously, so domestic. In Japan, they call us "gorgeous" like that's part of our name. But we want to be known as more than just beauties. We realize that in the U.S., it's not enough just to be beautiful. We know we'll be asked, What can you do? I would...