Pietro Boselli, the part-time high fashion model, full-time maths professor who has taken the world by storm, says he kept the fact that he's a male model under wraps at the U.K. university he teaches because he was afraid he "wouldn't be taken seriously" in academia.
The Daily Mail reports:
It seems such attention comes with a downside. Boselli is now claiming he's unhappy with the way his looks have all but dwarfed his academic capabilities...and that some women can't keep their hands to their selves.
The 26-year-old originally from Brescia, Italy, writing in Grazia magazine, claims he knows how Games of Thrones actor Kit Harington feels when he says he's been 'objectified' by women.
Harington said recently: 'To always be put on a pedestal as a hunk is slightly demeaning...in the same way as it is for women.'
Boselli said his rise to fame had seen women grab his bottom, which made him feel uncomfortable, adding: 'If a guy did to a girl some of the things I've been subjected too, everyone would agree how out of line they were - yet it's often accepted the other way around.'
Boselli, who has been modelling since he was six years old, originally tried to keep his modelling a secret from his colleagues at the University College London (UCL) where he taught for fear they might 'look down on him'.
Boselli also complains that many guys want to be his friend simply to attract hotter women. (Image below is a recent pic of Boselli and his friends' trip to New York.)