Radio: The Unobtrusive Beauties

Julia Meade, 28, is blonde, beautiful and alluringly shaped (34-20-34), but she earns $100,000 a year from three sponsors by calling attention to their products rather than her own charms. Julia aims at a sort of well-groomed invisibility: "The dress I wear must have something up here," she says, gesturing at her neckline. "There can't be any cleavage or even a shadow of cleavage." And she adds primly: "I would never wear a strapless dress."

Julia is one of a dozen or so young women on TV who find self-effacement enormously profitable.

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