Spanish moms nude calender flops (Potentially NSFW)
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24167187/?GT1=43001

pdated 9:21 p.m. ET, Wed., April. 16, 2008

MADRID, Spain - Seven middle-aged Spanish mothers who posed for a tongue-in-cheek nude calendar — a fundraiser for their children's tiny, rural school — are now saddled with debt and 5,000 unwanted copies.

One of the photos shows the mothers with Christmas tinsel as their only garb — no private parts on view. Other goofy poses include a shotgun-toting mother wearing only a fox pelt and kneeling on a table, and another shows a woman covering her body with a red umbrella on a picnic table.

A group of British women made more than a million pounds and worldwide headlines when they came up with the idea of a discreet nude calendar for 2000 to raise money for leukemia research. Their story was made into a hit movie, "Calendar Girls."
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In Spain, the photos came out as calendars in November and at first proved to be a big hit. But the plan fizzled.

No recycling a calendar
The women acknowledge being rank amateurs in publishing and advertising, and because of a miscue with a distributor they missed out on the Christmas shopping rush. Now, sales of the $8 calendar have dried up and they owe a printer nearly $16,000.

"The sad part for us is figuring out what to do with them because it is not something you can recycle," said Rosa Garin, 36, one of the models in Serradilla del Arroyo, a village of 400 people in northern Salamanca province.

The hamlet is a snapshot of rural Spain: quaint but graying, with retirees accounting for 75 percent of the population. The arrival of a new family with small children is greeted like manna from heaven. Funding for services is scant.

Its elementary school has one classroom and one teacher who handles its seven pupils, spanning four grades, and ranging in age from 7 to 11. But it is so cramped, the village matrons came up with the idea of building a recreation center for their kids.

"Nobody remembers the villages. Everybody comes and says, 'Wow, this is so pretty, what lovely countryside, you live so well here,' but then they don't help you at all. They give you absolutely nothing," Itziar Zamarreno, a 40-year-old town councilor who posed for the calendar, said in an interview Tuesday.

Among other pictures, she appears as Miss October, covered only with fox fur and holding a borrowed shotgun. This reflects a desire to depict typical scenes in an area where hunting is popular.

"I do not like to hunt. I do not like to kill things. But we had to do something representative," she said.

The plight of the mothers of Serradilla del Arroyo resurfaced recently because the distributor filed a complaint alleging they were behind on payments and local media picked up the story.


Sorry about the title, it shouldn't say nude.

well their level of revenue seems to be representative of their level of, eh, sorry Icy.

They should have gotten Paz Vega to sign on.

At least one of those ladies is not a lady at all, me thinks. And what is the deal with the afro on the one lady towards the right side of that picture the article shows.

She looks like the evil witch in Robin Hood Men In Tights.

What I dont get is their husbands...

We're they pumping them up like you would the crappy singer in your group of friends to try out for AI?

"Yeah, honey. Do it. Youre hot!" unreal.

I'd plow at least two of the women in that picture.

Those are women, right?

when you say plow you mean put them to work in the field with your oxen, right?

This is like some bikini calendar. Bayside knows how to get calendars like these done!

The wild mane woman looks scary!

Ouch (but funny)

SI

A few nappy headed hoes in there...

too soon!

I really feel sorry for these women and I'd buy a calendar if I could but reading this


and


all I can say is "damn."

What the. Why make 5000 calendars??? lol.

We should each order one to pitch in.

Yeah and then they could be a special insert into the burlap bags.

Find a link and I probably would.

Not sure how this is a story. People publish things all the time that don't sell. They certainly couldn't have expected to sell many with such a small market.

Welcome to Hollywood.

beware of the currency conversion. ;)

They forgot a comma. The printer's name was probably Mil, and they meant to say "Cinco, Mil", but it became "cinco mil".

:D

That is one of the worst ideas ever. Look at that pic on that link; those women could be models and it would still look stupid with the way they are posed and 'decorated'.

And that woman second from the right is downright scary. I guess you could use her as 'Ms. October' perhaps.

"Milly -- Great news -- You're Ms. October!"

Damn you, I'm choking on my apple.

I had no idea "Serradilla del Arroyo" meant "Land Where Your Penis Will Wither From Lack of Pretty Women".

Missed out on the Christmas rush.

For the first time in a long time, it is the older Bush that is the cause of this issue and not the younger Bush.

No, that's Wyoming.

They should try and sell those calendars in Kuwait since they love the older Bush there.

Fighting terrorism with ugly semi-nude. Great idea.

First, who the hell puts out a calendar in April?


Second, Could these women be wearing any more clothes? These women are ugly as all egt out, but come on. If they are going to try and rip off someone else's idea at least have the nerve to rip them off completely.

Hey, when you never see more of a babe than the slight glimpse of a wrist, I'd say any semi-nude is going to be hot and as for the ugly; how would they even know??

Cambodians?

Except for the tail, the one in the middle is pretty hot

I like the short one, second from the left.

Yah know, they aren't generally attractive but for a dirt poor town of 400, considering that they're middle aged mothers, they're not all that bad except the insane looking one on the right..

It's a sacrifice one has to make for freedom and democracy.

I wonder if they'll ask Skydog to do a shoot in the sexy patriotic thong.