Twin physiques: The Carlson brothers live the model life
Kim Palmer, Star Tribune
The Carlson twins of Stillwater were always cute kids. No bad acne. No ugly geeky stage, although Lane remembers a period when he thought he and his brother Kyle's noses were too big.
"People sometimes said, 'They're nice-looking boys,' and I'd think, 'Yeah, they're all right,' " said their mom, Judy.
But no one anticipated the day when the twins would earn up to $2,500 a day -- each -- to pose in front of a camera.
"It honestly came as a shock," Judy said. "I'm still surprised people would pay them money to stand there in a pair of jeans."
Or to drop their jeans, as the twins did when they first grabbed national eyeballs in the 2001 spring Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, in which the nude and semi-nude models attracted more attention than the clothes.
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