Sean Ching
strips down for our feature on the beauty and blemish of
the human body.
Sean Ching, (age
not disclosed)
Hawaii
Likes: his
muscles
Dislikes: he sometimes feels fat
Model Sean Ching
will never forget the moment he realized he’d been
working out too much. “Somebody set me up on a blind
date,” he recalls, smiling. Ching showed up
with his cousin, and the guy he was getting fixed up
with “looked us over and said, ‘The cute guy,
or the guy with the little pea head?’ And I was
the guy with the little pea head!” Ching
hadn’t noticed his own bulky overkill, because he was
too busy trying to erase memories of his childhood
body image. “When I was a kid I was
ultra-skinny,” he says. “I won’t even
say thin. My mom used to call me ‘bean
pole.’ ” And when teenage Ching wanted to try
out for the football team, his dad put him through a
daily two-hour workout for an entire summer before
he’d give his son permission.
Now, having
developed a body he feels comfortable with, Ching has
adopted a more relaxed approach to maintaining it.
“There’s only so much we can
control,” he says. “I’d love to be able
to eat everything in sight, like I used to when I
played football. But especially with my career, I have
to be a little more conscious.”
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Profiles by
Neal Broverman, Kyle Buchanan, Japhy Grant