Further references on this site - in nudological order

"I thought if I posed for pictures in the nude it would. help me to be success in modelling," she told police and Pressmen. "I was hungry and alone and didn't know what I know now. "Now these photographs could ruin me. I have everything to live for and I think it's terrible that unscrupulous people are trying to take advantage of something I did when I was just a kid." (People, 1955)

"The fact of the matter is that jobs are going a'begging in Britain. We have a shortage of help. Norma (Sabrina) Sykes could have gotten any honest labor she wished." (Lowdown, 1956)

"An American actor [Steve Cochran] who got to know Sabrina quite well on a recent London visit claimed Sabrina even welcomed the exposure. "She saw her chance for a terrific piece of Marilyn Monroe kind of publicity and grabbed it," he grinned." (Picture Digest Oct 1956)

Norma has an embarrassing but well-padded skeleton in her closet in the shape of the nudes she posed for before making her debut as the sexy by sweet Sabrina. One of these nudes turned up on the five of spades in a deck of playing cards for which Russell Gay provided the 52 alluring illustrations.

When card players all over England began doing tricks with her nude body Sabrina exploded via her lawyer. Writs flew thick and fast until a mutual friend persuaded the artist and the model to get together and settle their differences amicably. With every one of her 40 inches quivering with indignation, Sabrina turned up for the pow-wow ready to give Gay a piece of her mind... (Art and Photography, May 1957)

"She had the naive belief that no one would recognise her undraped" (Sir! Sep 57)

"Evidently the head of the BBC was not among the [nudie card] collectors, because shortly after that he had Sabby barred from further appearances on the government TV channel. It wasn't that he objected to the publicity about the purple pictures. It was just that there's no way of concealing the scale of Sabrina's upper assets" (Sir! Sep 59)

"I thought they would help me be a success at modelling. I was hungry and alone and didn't know what I know now. I didn't want to go home and admit failure." (QT, 1961)

The squatting nude profile that graced the five of spades in this series soon became a collector's item when Sabrina personally destroyed as many copies as she could find in London shops. "I was only a kid of 16 when those photos were taken," she explained to a Scotland Yard investigator after her rampage. "I was not going to admit defeat to my parents and ask them for train fare home." ('Bombshells')