2NR: What's the best part of being hired for a show?
NZ: Stability! You hope that they like you enough to make it a regular part. It's a little more stable than getting the occasional call to be on a magazine cover.
2NR: Which pays better?
NZ: Right now it's the modeling. I can do calendar, magazine, or contest work and can get $3000 in one day...like NOPI; the one we were just talking about.
2NR: You've been singing since you were three. You've got all this formal training for entertainment. You're hot...I mean smoking hot. What's your focus?
NZ: That's the thing I don't like about me. I do so many things that I haven't really focused on one particular thing. It's generally entertainment. I want to put my heart into one thing and reach that higher goal. I can't make up my mind in exactly what I want to be doing. Everything is going well and I'll take whatever falls in my lap.
2NR: Well you graduated from CSUN then got a real estate license. How's real estate?
NZ: Well my modeling has been doing so well that it's kept me out of the office for the past five months. I'm still a loan officer but I just lost my desk at the office.
2NR: They weren't too quick to lose you huh? I don't blame them. You're like a work incentive; a perk, if you will. Did you ever have a problem getting a job?
NZ: I think that looks are important and that people treat you a certain way based on how you look. I didn't have a hard time finding a job. I've never kept a job for more than seven months either! This loan officer thing...it's so flexible...I'm like my own boss.
2NR: Hey boss, did you ever have to work holidays?
NZ: Well every St. Patrick's Day for the past three years I've done stuff with Miller or Budweiser.
2NR: St. Paddy's day is not a holiday. It's a good excuse to drink. Or burn a car.
NZ: On Halloween I did a Naughty Strippers Ball at the Century Club in L.A. It's like a lingerie party or a bikini contest. It's a "Wild on E!" type of thing.
2NR: How did you get your start in modeling?
NZ: I was a Hawaiian Tropic girl. Everything grew from there.
2NR: Did you get a years supply of product?
NZ: Actually I got $1500 for winning the contest, prizes like free professional photos, flowers and a week-long trip to the nationals-which was in Vegas that year-representing California.
2NR: What's your relationship status as of today?
NZ: I've been with someone for three and a half years. Let's just say we're still together.
2NR: I know you've got a three-and-a-half year speed bump and everything but what turns you on about a guy?
NZ: Humor. A person that inspires me and doesn't hold me back.
2NR: You want someone supportive. Oh that's totally me. Matter of fact let me just get this out of the way now (clears throat). G'wan girl, go and do what you need to do. You can do it! Wait, are you even a trustworthy girl? I don't need another broken heart.
NZ: Yes.
2NR: Of course you have to say that. Give me the dirt. What's the 10 percent?
NZ: Awww. It's just 10 percent.
2NR: How bout turn offs?
NZ: Long nails, bad breath...
2NR: How bout something not obvious.
NZ: The real muscular type. You know the ones that can't even put their arms down because they work out so much. (I found myself imitating one as she was describing. Go ahead. You wanna do it.) Oh, and also guys that have a certain diet. They just can't go out and eat something and enjoy it. Sometimes I want to pig out. That's why I'm at the gym six days a week.
She tells me to hold on. She's at a drive though window ordering a Number 8 with a medium Coke. That's the chicken strips at "J to the Box"...believe me I know.