On May 30th, 1987, a young Deanna Templeton, age 15 in Huntington Beach, California, wrote in her diary on pink lined paper: “What an interesting night!! 2 death threats, pick ups left and right, scratches on my truck, forgot to switch freeways, almost ran over a kitty, ended up in San Pedro. Then went to Denny’s.
At the time, Templeton struggled with an eating disorder, suicidal thoughts, and a feeling of self-hatred that ran deeper than the scars on her arms. “I grew up and still live in a beach community. There’s a lot of young, attractive, fit-looking girls who fit the look of what I was seeing in fashion mags and on TV shows,” she says. “I literally made a little vision board of supermodels that I cut up and pasted to my wall. But I was constantly breaking out with zits. I felt that I was overweight.
And then, a couple of weeks later, I saw the two girls now walking around a different part of downtown Huntington Beach. I’m like, ‘Oh, can I get another photograph of you girls?’ This time, they were by this blue wall—a different look. I shot them again. I ended up deciding to use the single shot of the other girl in the Death Metal shirt.
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