About
Marie‑Claude Bourbonnais is a French‑Canadian glamour model and cosplay model, costume designer, and entrepreneur, and one of the most popular glamour models in Canada known for her glamour, beauty, and huge surgically enhanced bust, body shape and highly popular giant cleavage, popular photo sets and clothing fetish, including her unique handmade costumes. She was born October 15, 1979, in Sainte‑Anne‑de‑la‑Pocatière, Quebec, and had studied fashion design before stepping under the lights of the studio. Her designs include latex‑moulded super‑heroine suits, and historically inspired gowns, and she catalogues her making process – for her thousands of fans all over the world — on Instagram, X, and Bluesky. Today she operates her own studio near Quebec City, where she creates patterns, sculpts props and even paints custom backdrops, transforming personal concepts into visual experiences that regularly set the trends within the cosplay community.
Before Fame
Way before convention crowds noticed her trademark green eyes, Bourbonnais toiled in the background stitching ensembles for clients on the local fashion scene. The breakthrough came in 2008 when Quebec radio station Radio X and Molson Export featured her in the “Dream Team” calendar—twelve provocative pin‑ups that traveled coast to coast. The same summer, she appeared on the front of a cheeky New York Fries advertising campaign that covered bus shelters with her grin and launched a modeling career virtually overnight. Follow-up appearances in American Curves, Elle Canada, FHM Philippines, and the Toronto Sun ensued, but she never let go of her sewing machine; the talents she honed in fashion school became the secret ingredient that later set her cosplay work apart.
In 2009 she constructed a Frost costume in Mortal Kombat style and uploaded images to the internet. The chilled-out ice blue outfit—constructed from stretch vinyl that she sewed at home—was re-posted on gaming websites around the globe and drew her onto the pop‑culture convention scene. Offers to guest at Cape & Kimono (2010) and Ottawa Comiccon (2012) soon followed, affirming she could succeed just as well in cosplay as commercial modeling.
Trivia
- Self-taught prop master: Bourbonnais creates armor out of EVA foam and thermoplastics, but also welds aluminum for more substantial constructions—a skill she’s learned through YouTube demonstrations and experimentation in her dad’s garage.
- On-screen heroine: She plays the heroine Hornet in the web series Heroes of the North, a role for which she was rewarded with a 6-inch action figure cast from a 3-D scan of her costume.
- Miniature cameo: American tabletop publisher Soda Pop Miniatures created a handful of game pieces in her image for games like Relic Knights and Super Dungeon Explore.
- Set-builder at heart: Rather than renting studios, she plans and builds whole photosets—spaceship corridors, Victorian parlors, brick walls—within her workshop and then takes them apart to reuse them. Fans can frequently catch power tools and ladders in her behind-the-scenes videos.
- Biggest project so far: In May 2025 she announced on Threads that a year-long construction—her “big cosplay set”—had an Easter release planned, with clues to heavy weathering and animatronics.
- Favorite materials: In spite of a reputation for latex, she often uses marine vinyl or neoprene because, as she quips, “seams cut better when you perspire under stage lights.”
Family Life
Public information regarding Bourbonnais’s family is limited; she prefers to highlight craft over intimate relationships. What is available is that she was raised in a close‑knit French‑Canadian family in rural Bas‑Saint‑Laurent, where her mother instructed her in rudimentary sewing and her father filled the garage with sufficient scrap wood for adolescence‑age costume adventurings. Friends indicate that early encouragement fostered her confidence to explore nonconventional art directions. She now resides in Quebec with two rescue cats who prowl through workshop livestreams—frequently sprawling on half‑done capes as she playfully chases them off with a laugh. Aside from that, she keeps romance life and extended family firmly out of frame, saying in interviews that “the costumes are the stars.”
Associated With
Bourbonnais’s professional life crossed paths with a number of top-level creators:
- Yaya Han – The veteran American cosplayer extended the invite for Bourbonnais to join him for a weekend at Montreal’s Otakuthon in 2011; the two hit it off on latex-making advice, and Bourbonnais presented Han to local vendor Polymorphe. Their relationship later yielded collaborative photoshoots at Dragon Con and New York Comic Con.
- Riki “Riddle” Lecotey – Canadian-born costume designer who initially brought Bourbonnais to Han; the three appeared on Marvel LIVE! at NYCC 2011, debating superhero builds and taking group photos that still get shared on fan forums.
- Paolo Parente – Italian game artist who placed Bourbonnais’s likeness on character cards in the Dust miniature universe after being impressed by her WWII-themed pin-ups.
- Heroes of the North cast – Actors John Fallon and Vanessa Blouin worked alongside her in the Canadian web series, praising her ability to sprint in six‑inch heels while wielding foam wings.
