"The Other"-final draft

Being a petite blonde model isn't an easy task as some might be lead to believe.

This has been the case for one certain woman from New Berlin, Wis. Kimberly Wayne, a 26-year-old, 5'6" magazine model for The Willamena Agency in Flordia, has experienced a variety of situations with men and have made her a much stronger person psychologically because of them.

Wayne has lived in New Berlin her whole life. Growing up in a two-parent household in a well-developed area on the north border of New Berlin and Brookfield, Wayne was an only child. She attended St. Lukes in Brookfield from first grade until eighth grade. There she met a few male friends who picked on her for being a blonde and for wearing glasses but mainly she never had any problems keeping things under control. She did normal activities at that age like every other child at that age would do, ride bikes, rollerblade with friends, play outside and have fun in the sun.

“She was a normal girl,” said her mother Laura Wayne. “She never really did anything out of the ordinary.”

When she was in third grade, her little brother Aaron was born. When he was born, her father gave a lot more attention to her brother and less to her. This made her dislike her brother for a substantial amount of time for making her dad give him all the attention and she hated her dad for not spending time with her.

Wayne then attended Catholic Memorial High School from 1993-97. There were roughly 250 people in her graduating class out of which the girl to guy ratio was almost 4:1. She had a few boyfriends while in high school, majority of them were kind and respectful towards her.

“The rest of the guys that I knew from high school were assholes,” said Wayne. “They had no legitimate reason to dislike somebody, but they always did. They were just shallow and cared about material things rather than people’s feelings.”

At the end of her freshman year of high school, she met a star player from the hockey team and they started dating. Things went fine until their senior year, she wanted to break up with him and he felt that would happen but didn’t want it to. As time went by, their conversations began getting more and more heated and hands-on.

After while, she stopped listening to him while he was talking to her and he began grabbing her to make her listen. The situation got rough for her after that and it took a while for him to realize they were not going to be a couple.

Wayne always had entrusted friends to walk with throughout the hallways of her school during and even after they had broken up in order to ensure her safety.

"He was always good at one thing, causing a scene in public," said Wayne. "That's why I felt that it was necessary to protect myself even after the break-up."

Wayne now coaches 17-year-old men’s volleyball for the Milwaukee North Shore Volleyball program and has been coaching men for this program for seven years. She said that at first coaching men would be hard because she knew that they weren’t going to respect her as a coach because she was a woman. She decided that playing with her athletes during her practices so that they all would realize that she was highly qualified and highly adequate to perform her duties.

"As I have gotten older, I've noticed a slight change in guys behavior towards me," said Wayne's best friend Michelle Hagardy. "Being a blonde, like makes me feel like there's a certain expectation that I should live up to and it makes me fustrated at times."

Because of some of the situations that she has been involved in during her past, she has been accustomed to having to have thick skin and leave bad situations without thinking twice.

“Women are extremely competitive, shallow and envious of other women,” said Wayne. “With all those things, men are still the worst as they always lie, cheat and sometimes steal just to get ahead in anything that they can.”