JamesG
12-30-2025, 02:14 AM
Heathers Star Opens Up about Being on Controversial Album Cover at 14
by Jordan Hoffman
December 24, 2025
It was "urgent" for someone to have intervened.
Actor Patrick Labyorteaux had his Heathers costar Lisanne Falk as a guest on his podcast, The Patrick LabyorSheaux, and asked her about her appearance on the cover of one of the more notorious albums in 1970s rock 'n' roll, 'Head Games' by Foreigner.
Falk, best known as one of the three Heathers in the 1988 classic dark comedy (she's Heather McNamara, not Heather Duke or Heather Chandler) began her career as a model with the Ford Modeling Agency.
The picture, which regularly makes lists for "most shocking album covers," is of a young girl in a boys' bathroom, perched on the edge of a urinal, washing something off the wall. (One can surmise that there may have been some cliché "for a good time, call" graffiti there.)
She has a look of deep sadness in her eyes as she glances back toward the lens. It's a remarkable photograph and one could argue that it certainly belongs in a gallery of fine art, but it can come across a little gross on the cover of a record featuring tunes like "Dirty White Boy."
It's even worse when you learn Falk was just 14 at the time.
When Labyorteaux asked her about it, she rolled her eyes and said "so here we go," adding "perspective, from a different time."
She said it was one of her first gigs and at age 14 she had "maybe kissed somebody" but "was not super savvy." It was mostly men present at the shoot, and at the time everyone thought it was "hilarious" that she was "in a men's bathroom."
Remarking at her naiveté, she said she'd likely never seen a urinal before and surely "did not understand the context of what she was doing."
She added that she had a Polaroid picture of what she'd done that day, and brought it home to her mother who said "uhhhh, okay..."
"It was a job," she shrugged. "Ford Models booked it."
She then said that when Foreigner played at Madison Square Garden she was invited to the concert. Looking back at it now, she concluded "I don't think that would wash in today's day."
https://ew.com/lisanne-falk-controversial-foreigner-album-cover-age-14-11856548
by Jordan Hoffman
December 24, 2025
It was "urgent" for someone to have intervened.
Actor Patrick Labyorteaux had his Heathers costar Lisanne Falk as a guest on his podcast, The Patrick LabyorSheaux, and asked her about her appearance on the cover of one of the more notorious albums in 1970s rock 'n' roll, 'Head Games' by Foreigner.
Falk, best known as one of the three Heathers in the 1988 classic dark comedy (she's Heather McNamara, not Heather Duke or Heather Chandler) began her career as a model with the Ford Modeling Agency.
The picture, which regularly makes lists for "most shocking album covers," is of a young girl in a boys' bathroom, perched on the edge of a urinal, washing something off the wall. (One can surmise that there may have been some cliché "for a good time, call" graffiti there.)
She has a look of deep sadness in her eyes as she glances back toward the lens. It's a remarkable photograph and one could argue that it certainly belongs in a gallery of fine art, but it can come across a little gross on the cover of a record featuring tunes like "Dirty White Boy."
It's even worse when you learn Falk was just 14 at the time.
When Labyorteaux asked her about it, she rolled her eyes and said "so here we go," adding "perspective, from a different time."
She said it was one of her first gigs and at age 14 she had "maybe kissed somebody" but "was not super savvy." It was mostly men present at the shoot, and at the time everyone thought it was "hilarious" that she was "in a men's bathroom."
Remarking at her naiveté, she said she'd likely never seen a urinal before and surely "did not understand the context of what she was doing."
She added that she had a Polaroid picture of what she'd done that day, and brought it home to her mother who said "uhhhh, okay..."
"It was a job," she shrugged. "Ford Models booked it."
She then said that when Foreigner played at Madison Square Garden she was invited to the concert. Looking back at it now, she concluded "I don't think that would wash in today's day."
https://ew.com/lisanne-falk-controversial-foreigner-album-cover-age-14-11856548