A postcard and a calendar from 1974 may finally prove a pensioner's claim that there has been a mix-up over the true identity of the model in Athena's famous 'Tennis Girl' poster. Photographer Martin Elliot always credited model Fiona Butler, his then girlfriend, as starring in the dream-like photograph taken on a sunny day in 1976. But Peter Atkinson has for 30 years claimed the bare bum in the picture, which became famous in the 1980s and decorated a generation of boys' bedrooms, in fact belonged to his ex-wife. And now, he says, he has found proof. The Tennis Girl: Athena's famous poster of a young woman bearing her bottom on a sun-soaked tennis court became one of the most-famous images in the world during the late 1970s and the 1980s
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Peter Atkinson claims his ex-wife was the photographer's tennis coach
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He says she told him she posed for a shoot with Martin Elliot in 1972
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A postcard of the picture postmarked 1974 seems to back his claim
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As does a 1974 calendar showing a photo apparently from the same series
The girl in the photo, which remains popular to this day, remained anonymous until 1989, when @placeholder stepped forward to announce that she was the face behind the behind.