Melissa Ceja
Playboy Africa|August 2021
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Melissa Ceja

Happy to have you feature on Playboy! Can you give us a bit of a background on your career as a model and where it all started? I’m extremely grateful for the feature. Thank you for having me. I’ve been a glamour/fashion modeling on and off for about eight years now and I’ve been lucky enough to have publications worldwide throughout my career.

Growing up, I used to have a lot of people saying to me, “You’re so pretty. You should be a model, but you’re too short”. And one day I thought to myself - “why am I letting my height stop me?” So I went for it! I then decided to enter modeling and it took off surprisingly fast. Social media definitely played a huge role in my success.

What are some of your best career highlights so far? I have to say it was my first appearances on places I dreamed about. Such as, appearing on a Las Vegas billboard, my first feature in a printed magazine sold at grocery stores, my first magazine cover, my feature in Maxim and now this feature in Playboy! All of these accomplishments make me feel fortunate and proud of my success.

Social media is a very powerful tool, given your massive following, what are some of the challenges you face when it comes to marketing your brand and maintaining a solid following? I am a very private person in real life, so for me it can be difficult balancing what I want to share and what I want to keep private.

This story is from the August 2021 edition of Playboy Africa.

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