Biography
Bianca Beauchamp
Montreal-born model, muse of photographer Martin Perreault and co-founder, in 1998, of the website known today as ILOVEBIANCA.
Early years
Bianca Beauchamp was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a French-Canadian father and an Italian mother. She was named after Bianca Jagger. Growing up in a low-income neighbourhood, she passed the entrance exam of a private school.
After high school she studied French literature at CEGEP, hoping to become a high-school French teacher, and went on to study French at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Muse and model
In the mid-’90s she met Martin Perreault, then an aspiring photographer and later her spouse. He asked her to pose as his muse, she began modelling for him, and she bought her first latex dress.
In 1998 the two of them founded the website Latex Lair, known today as ILOVEBIANCA. Her passion for modelling soon outweighed her plans to teach, and at 23 she left university to model full time.
Career
Her photographs have appeared in Bizarre, Heavy Rubber, Marquis, Nightlife, Penthouse, Playboy, Skin Two and Whiplash, as well as in several Playboy Special Editions. She was twice the cover of Playboy’s Girls of Canada calendar.
In January 2007 she became the first model to appear on the cover of the British magazine Bizarre six times. Her ninth cover followed in January 2009, and the magazine’s very last issue featured her on its cover for the twelfth time.
In 2007 she represented Hype Energy at the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix. With her website and Ritual Entertainment, she portrayed the character Elexis Sinclaire for the video game SiN Episodes. AskMen.com ranked her 31st in its Top 99 Women of 2008, and 24th the following year.
Books, films and calendars
In 2006 she self-published a book about her modelling career. Her film Bianca Beauchamp: All Access, an 85-minute reality documentary directed and edited by Martin Perreault, premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in July 2007 and came out as a two-disc special edition DVD that September.
The sequel, All Access 2: Rubberised, premiered in Montreal in August 2008 to a sold-out theatre, with a red carpet, and was released on DVD the same day. In 2014 she appeared alongside Daniel Baldwin, Michael Madsen and Malcolm McDowell in the slasher film Lady Psycho Killer.
Between 2010 and 2015 she released thirteen photo books of 74 pages each, the Bianca Sessions series. She has published her own calendar every year since 2014.
Publications
- Bizarre
- Skin Two
- Marquis
- Heavy Rubber
- Whiplash
- Nightlife
- Summum
- Playboy
- Penthouse
- WOW
- XALT
- Être
- Max Power
Today
Bianca creates her work with Martin Perreault and runs her own members’ site, online store and social media. Fake profiles using her name and photos exist: she never asks fans for money by email or private message.