Don't look Ethel...but it was too late – she'd already been ballooned....
Jonathan Kay, from Eccles, is currently starring, stark naked, as Mr March, in an Ataxia Laid Bare calendar for 2015, alongside another eleven sufferers of the rare ataxia condition for which there is little or no cure.
Ataxia is the name given to a group of neurological disorders that affect balance, coordination and speech, it affects ten thousand adults and 2,500 children in the UK, and few people are aware of the condition. Now the calendar hopes to change that, as well as raising much needed funds to help find a cure and aid people with ataxia.
Sam Merchant wanted to use the calendar to show twelve different symptoms of ataxia in a way people would remember...
"Some symptoms, such as heart disease with Friedreich's ataxia are better-known than others" says Sam "Others, like hearing impairment, are less well known. The Ataxia Laid Bare calendar shows a different symptom each month, with different models choosing a symptom that personally affects them. Together, the pictures starkly illustrate the reality of ataxia."
"Compared with some of the symptoms of ataxia, posing naked was nothing" he adds "Ataxia plays a major role in my life; it changes a lot of things for me. It affects where I live, the people I hang out with, what I do with my time; everything really. So I hope the nude calendar will raise awareness and a bit of money. I hope it will make a lot of people aware of the condition who didn't know about it before."
Mr March, or Jonathan Kay, was only too pleased to don The Origin of Species, a balloon and nowt else to help the cause...
You can buy Ataxia Laid Bare for £9.99 + p&p from www.ataxia.org.uk, via www.ebay.co.uk, by emailing fundraising@ataxia.org.uk or by calling 020 7582 1444.
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