Career
May started her pin-up modeling career in 2003 as one of the first Western Canadian models for Los Angeles-based modern pin-up website SuicideGirls.com and started burlesque dancing that same year. She appeared in Episode 31 of Home Box Office"s RealSex television show on the Rebirth of Modern Pinup and was also a dancer in the Probot music video "Shake Your Blood" featuring Dave Grohl and Lemmy Kilmister. She made United States immigration history in August 2012 by earning a green card with the "Alien Of Extraordinary Ability" classification based on her work in burlesque and pin-up modeling.
She has toured the United States of America and Europe extensively, and has appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, New York Post, Shimmy Magazine, and Dynamite Magazine in Germany.
She designs her own line of vintage-inspired vegan accessories, which has been worn by celebrities like Dita Von Teese and Bernie Dexter, called Coquette Faux Furriers. Her involvement with SuicideGirls and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals led to her being a featured model in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals"s "I"d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ad campaign.
She also teaches classes on vintage pin-up styling and posing, which she photographs as well. The class was turned into instructional videos / DVDs How to be a Pinup Model: Release your inner bombshell! and Bombshell Basics: Pinup Modeling Secrets Revealed and has been featured on National Broadcasting Company News and The New York Times.
