History Main / FanserviceModel

* ''VideoGame/FightingAngels'' is a relatively obscure, all-female 2005 FightingGame released for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]]. Basically a fighting game starring gravure idols, or girls who wanted to be gravure idols. A game full of {{Fanservice}} but nothing more than that.

But, something that should be made clear: the Fanservice Model just makes provocative (or sometimes nude) photos but doesn't necessarily cross the line of sex or UsefulNotes/{{porn|ography}}. However, as with everything, there are some exceptions, in which models started this way and later converted into pornstars, as well as pornstars that made BleachedUnderpants sessions for some magazines during their porn careers or after retiring from them. Also some stars from various media (TV, movies, music, etc) made some casual sessions as Fanservice Models for some male (as well as female) magazines.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'';

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': [[MsFanservice Mary]] [[HeadTurningBeauty Jane Watson]] is this while also being a model and an actress.

* In an early ''ComicBook/XMen'' arc the team has to go undercover in New York, and Jean Grey gets a job modelling swimsuits.

* Miu Hinasaki, one of the characters of ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'' is a gravure model, and can be seen during the game when Miu makes [[{{Fanservice}} suggesting poses]] every time she's in front of the camera.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* {{Cosplay}}
** Some famous worldwide Cosplay stars overlap their career as cosplayers serving as fanservice models, mostly for lingerie and swimsuit sessions for magazines as well for their own portfolios. Some of the most known cosplayers that are or were fanservice models are Francesca Dani, Creator/JessicaNigri (who also does [[VoiceActors voice acting and dubbing]]), Yaya Han, Marie-Claude Bourbonnais (who also does [[FullFrontalAssault full nudity sessions]]), Jannet "Incosplay" Vinogradova, Octokuro, and Stella Chuu.
** Also, for male counterparts, there're cosplayers like Leon Chiro, Dan Ballestero and Elffi who also performed fanservice photosessions as well.
** A notable case in Japan is Miss Hannah Minx, an American Website/YouTube personality that lived in Japan and taught Japanese as well as shown things from Japan, [[DistractedByTheSexy but that didn't matter because]] [[ThanksForTheMammary male fans often saw another "pair" of things]]. She was also known for being a strange case of gravure idol, having her own Cosplay session even recorded in video.
* Gravure idols
** The gravure idol scene is full of names fans should know: Risa Yoshiki, Reon Kadena (who actually did nude sessions too), Leah Dizon, Ai Shinozaki, Yumi Kobayashi, Mikie Hara, Nana Ozaki, Aki Hoshino, Ayaka Komatsu, and Creator/YukaKuramochi, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_gravure_idols Just to name a few of them]].
** Unsuprisingly, many [[IdolSinger idol singers]], including the biggest ones such as Music/AKB48, also dabble into gravure modeling.
** Most actresses in the Tokusatsu genre are at one point or another also gravure idols.
** Sometimes, other famous women had their time as gravure idols without leaving their actual careers. Music/AyumiHamasaki is the prime example of this.
** Also, there're some famous {{Seiyuu}}s that made a parallel career as gravure idols. Creator/AyaHirano, Creator/ChiakiTakahashi, Creator/RieTanaka, Creator/YurikaKubo, Creator/YuiOgura, Creator/KaoriIshihara, Creator/HarukaTomatsu and Creator/MikuItou are prime examples. Some voice actresses were originally gravure idols like Creator/RyokaYuzuki, the aformentioned Yurika Kubo and more. Even older veteran voice actresses like Creator/NorikoHidaka and Creator/MariaKawamura have posed as models in their younger years.
* A RareMaleExample of pornstars making BleachedUnderpants photosessions is [[MusclesAreMeaningful Shimiken]], a male AV idol considered to be "[[RedBaron The King of Porn]]" in his native Japan. Apart from making XXX movies, he also makes fashion photosessions and was even part of a live-action webseries ({{Dorama}}) of a BoyBand directed towards the female public.
* Some famous worldwide ProductPlacement beauty contests that are all about this trope are ''Miss Hawaiian Tropic'' and ''Miss Reef'', both made in Summer and starring girls with nothing but a bikini and a t-shirt.
* Lads', Lads, or Laddie mags (magazines) (known exclusively as men's magazines in English-speaking North America) contain non-nude photography (or bare-breasted photography in the case of some British "lads' mags"), women accompanied by articles about the woman that is pictured (usually models or actresses); consumer stories about cars, tools, toys, music, TV and film, sports, foods, alcoholic beverages; or "guy tales" of sexual encounters. Some famous worldwide ''lads' mags'' are FHM, GQ and Maxim.
** One of the precursors of these kinds of magazines is TheNineties' British magazine Magazine/{{Loaded}}.
** In their beginnings, the Magazine/{{Playboy}} magazine was like this, and over time, going up a notch in terms of mature content. It is considered a straight-up Porn version of lads' magazines.
* Model Creator/KellyBrook started acquiring a fan club when she was relatively unknown, doing otherwise anonymous shoots for clothing and underwear -- especially underwear -- directed at more ''mature'' ladies. This interest from a PeripheryDemographic which was definitely not the one the advertisers had in mind, which was highly unlikely to buy the product, was what propelled Kelly into the new arena of being not only a model but also an occasional actress and TV presenter.
* Crowdfunding website [[http://www.patreon.com Patreon]] is a place in which artists can post some of their art and with a monthly pay, they can make works exclusive to those who have funded them. Over time, the website has also slowly become a platform for girls (mostly cosplayers) to show their works, as well more fanservice-y/erotic photoshoots (with a few revealing cosplays as well with lingerie), bordering on softcore porn. Other funding sites like [[https://ko-fi.com/ Ko-fi]] also works for fanservice models as an alternative to Patreon.
[[/folder]]

A FashionModel wears clothes of every kind, from some showing barely any skin, to others with nothing more than a bikini or a lingerie. ''This'' kind of model specializes in the latter, being BestKnownForTheFanservice. The Fanservice Model wears [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuits]], {{lingerie|Scene}} and also goes for the {{fetish}} crowd with [[FanserviceCostumes fanservice-laiden costumes]]. Also can apply to those going nude, but not necessarily the FullFrontalAssault. This could be in the form of BodyPaint without wearing anything, or being covered just with GodivaHair or HandOrObjectUnderwear sessions. This is an almost AlwaysFemale trope, but there are also examples of male [[MrFanservice Fanservice Models]], mostly [[MusclesAreMeaningful with well-marked shapes]] for women's (and [[CampGay some men's]]) magazines.

SisterTrope of FashionModel. Compare MsFanservice (and {{Mr|Fanservice}}. too), LingerieScene, WalkingSwimsuitScene, ShirtlessScene, {{Stripperiffic}} and PublicExposure. Contrast CostumePorn and ContractualPurity. Overlaps with IdolSinger, since some of them also are gravure idols; and {{Cosplay}}, depending of the kind of costume wearing (or almost not wearing), especially for private photosessions instead of crowded events. The JapaneseMedia FictionalCounterpart is the {{Ecchi}} genre.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': [[MsFanservice Mary]] [[HeadTurningBeauty Jane Watson]] is this while also being a FashionModel and an actress.

* In the season 4 of ''Series/That70sShow'', [[TheDitz Michael Kelso]] was called to be a [[MrFanservice male underwear model]], who appeared in diverse magazines, being mocked by his friends and causing a new split with his then-girlfriend Jackie Burkhart, who always wanted to be a FashionModel.

* Early Wrestling/{{TNA}} had rookie wrestler Lollipop and valet April Pennington as dancers in cages. Being a [[SignatureStyle Russo booked company]], they soon ended up in an in ring feud with Bitch Slap, a stable made of more experienced wrestlers, and everyone involved ended up going nowhere before being released from the company as TNA went PG on Fox Sports Net. Bitch slap member Traci Brooks did ironically stick around long enough for TNA to promote her in a playboy magazine photo shoot, but Brooks got knocked off for cartoon character [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]. The company's most successful example was Wrestling/GailKim, most likely because she did her best known photo poses independent of TNA, so no one associated with it could screw things up.(Wrestling/AngelinaLove also did an independent project modeling [[FashionModel shoes]] and [[FootFocus her bare feet]])

* Most women in Wrestling/{{ECW}} were valets who doubled as fan service models. The most obvious exceptions were Wrestling/LunaVachon, The Prodigette and [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], while the most triumphant straight examples were Jasmin St. Claire, Wrestling/KimonaWanalaya(who actually took a break from pro wrestling after being booed for refusing to "[[CrowdChant show her tits]]" to a crowd with children in it), Wrestling/BeulahMcGillicutty, Wrestling/{{Francine}}, Wrestling/DawnMarie and Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch([[StayInTheKitchen who thought women shouldn't be wrestlers]] before changing her tune in Wrestling/{{WSU}} and Wrestling/{{ROH}}). As a rule most didn't wrestle, but every once and while there would be a {{CAT FIGHT}}!
** Not to mention they have TheNineties famous pornstar Jenna Jameson as model and even manager for some wrestlers.

* Promoting Jaguar Yokota after she became too old for All Japan Women's 'retire at 25' policy was the main reason Yoshimoto Pro Wrestling j'd/JD STAR even existed as a promotion. So when she opted to rely less on the company and do more freelance work, the remaining staff were at a loss for what do. They decided training girls with model type good looks, and getting them acting jobs for mainstream crossover publicity was the way to go. This was dubbed The "athtress" program, and wasn't enough to save JD. It did inspire World Wonder Ring STARDOM to train established models though.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': [[MsFanservice Mary]] [[HeadTurningBeauty Jane Watson]] is this as while also being a FashionModel and an actress.

* ''VideoGame/FightingAngels'' is a relatively obscure, all-female 2005 FightingGame released for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]]. Basically a fighting game starring gravure idols, or girls who wanted to be gravure idols. A game full of {{Fanservice}} but [[SturgeonsLaw nothing more than that]].

In Japan, to be specific, there's a name for this kind of model: ''gravure idols'' – girls (yes, this is an AlwaysFemale trope there) that specialize in sexually provocative/suggestive photography of the playful/innocent kind (as opposed to aggressive sexuality), though '''not''' to the point of posing nude; '''that''' is what "AV Idols"[[note]]AV stands for "[[NotSafeForWork Adult Video]]''[[/note]] are for. Many popular female idols in Japan launched their careers by starting out as gravure idols, and some {{seiyuu}} and {{idol singer}}s became or were gravure idols.

** The gravure idol scene is full of names fans should know: Risa Yoshiki, Reon Kadena (who actually did nude sessions too), Leah Dizon, Ai Shinozaki, Yumi Kobayashi, Mikie Hara, Nana Ozaki, Aki Hoshino and Ayaka Komatsu. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_gravure_idols Just to name a few of them]].

* Model Creator/KellyBrook started acquiring a fan club when she was relatively unknown, doing otherwise anonymous shoots for clothing and underwear -- especially underwear -- directed at more ''mature'' ladies. This interest from a PeripheryDemographic which was definitely not the one the advertisers had in mind, which was highly unlikely to buy the product, was what propelled Kelly into the new arena of being not only a model but also an occassional actress and TV presenter.