The Naked Truth: Sean Ching

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.