This is the cheeky grin of an aspiring model who turned a few heads yesterday when she appeared naked on the front cover of The Journal.
 Louise Marshall, 24, of Heaton, Newcastle, was among the 1,700 people who posed nude for New York photographer Spencer Tunick on the Quayside on Sunday morning. Yesterday, having got over the shock of seeing herself on the news stands, she admitted she had needed a few drinks beforehand to calm her nerves ahead of the mass photo call. Louise, an events manager, said: "The Journal was the first paper I saw. It was really strange, unreal. "I nearly didn't go through with it on Sunday morning. "The whole experience was surreal - being naked in a place you know so well, with hundreds of other people, also naked. "But after a couple of hours you get used to it." Louise decided to take part in the nude photo shoot two months ago when her friend Adam van Gelderen, Correctsaw an advert seeking volunteers. He also managed to interest another friend Lizzie Oswell, a 21-year-old charity worker, who was also on the front page of yesterday's Journal. Louise said: "We were there for four hours and by then it was beginning to seem normal. I think I would do it again to be honest. I am a free spirit and I always like trying new things." Louise's parents David, a retired police officer, and Yvonne, a retired manager for a cosmetics firm, were on holiday in Spain yesterday. She said: "They probably won't see them until they get back. My boyfriend and brothers have been supportive and everyone at work thinks it is hilarious." Louise has worked at events management company Premier Events and Leisure, based at Slaley Hall Hotel near Hexham, Northumberland, for eight months. But the business management graduate from Sunderland University has one eye on a career in modelling. She said: "I have done some modelling before and it is definitely something I would consider getting into in the future." Bare facts of North economy The weekend's Spencer Tunick photo shoot on Tyneside has been deemed a huge success. The Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, which funded the event through its Culture10 programme, had estimated it could generate up to £2m in spending. Suzanne Goulding, NGI head of corporate communications, said yesterday: "The economic impact at the moment is hard to quantify but we know there were participants from across the UK and the world so there will have been spending in Newcastle and Gateshead. A lot of the hotels were very busy over the weekend. They would expect that on a Saturday night but they were busier than expected on Friday and Sunday nights as well, suggesting a link with the event." Ms Goulding said the media coverage had been extensive and had shown the area in a positive light. "There was coverage in almost every national newspaper and it was picked up by ITV nationally. " She said the momentum would be maintained by the Tall Ships' Festival. | 
