If you’re just a video girl, be afraid. Be very afraid.

The video chick may soon be endangered. With career women and professional models using rap’s hottest visuals to diversify their portfolio—contrary to upstarts who view videos as thee achievement—the simple “video model” tag is losing value. Take Dayton, Ohio-born actress Candace Smith. The honey-gold vision of near-perfection was Miss Ohio, a Northwestern Law School graduate, a six-figure corporate lawyer, a Barker Beauty for The Price Is Right and costar in commercials for Bacardi and Coors (remember the double-date joint with Hits From The Street and the dude who yells his number out loud?) way before she provided the climax for Lloyd Banks’ “On Fire” video by simply stepping out of the Jacuzzi. “That scene was Jessy’s [Terrero] idea,” she tells. “It was 2 a.m., I’m freezing and 50’s like, ‘Candace, please just do it. You got the best body here and I know you’re ready to go home but I can’t have the garbage that’s here walking out the water.’”

Five years ago while y’all were engulfed in BET and MTV, Candace was balancing her two lives as a constantly touring state queen and an attorney for one of Ohio’s biggest firms. Yet she was still unsatisfied. “I had a full academic scholarship for college coming out of Dayton and my mom really stressed education. I wanted to focus on acting but Mom was like, ‘No.’ I always modeled on the side, so while I was in law school my first year I was like, ‘I’ve been living for everybody else, so now I’m gonna make the move and follow my heart—no holds barred.’”

Last year, after Candace had gotten a decent grip on her law school debt, she decided to move to LA and go hard with acting. After a few “really rough” first months, the beauty landed on The Price Is Right but quickly grew tired of it. (“The shit ain’t even pay that good. I make more now. You can’t speak and it’s all about presenting these fucked-up products like Polident or Preparation H. It’s not sexy!”) She was soon able to leave, as her casting agent Mike Taylor started scoring her jobs better suited to her career direction.

Now you can look out for Candace on the upcoming VH1 reality show Simply Irresistible and the Mark Wahlberg-starring HBO series Entourage. For now, just enjoy her on your local video show. “It’s funny, because a lot of the girls on the set were looking down on the scene, like, ‘I’m too good to put on a bikini and get in the Jacuzzi,’” she dimes. “Number one, you’re here at a video shoot so don’t act like you’re too good. Second, I’ve got a law degree and I’ve been on national TV and I don’t think I’m too good, so why would you?