She’s sitting pretty and riding dirty — but men are too intimated to ask her out on a date.
Banging refurbished junked cars into each other in a dirt field is a cherished pastime of demolition derby driver Star Giles.
However, the bombshell brunette’s penchant for clunker crashing often clashes with her fondness for “girly” glamming — such as getting her hair, nails and eyelashes done — making it virtually impossible for guys to take her seriously behind the wheel or in matters of the heart.
“People are so shocked when I meet them and explain that I build my own cars and then compete by crashing them into other cars because I am an attractive female,” Giles, a 26-year-old single mom of two and business owner from Utah, told Caters News.
“I love having my hair done, smelling good and being pampered, just as much as I love being covered in oil,” she gushed. “I think because I am pretty, people don’t understand how I can do both.”
“Men don’t think that you can be pretty and enjoy doing cool stuff at the same time,” added the self-crowned tomboy. “It’s like they’re intimidated by it and they don’t understand the contrast.”
Giles, whose affinity for pedal-to-the-metal jousting sparked at age 15, was initially shocked by how few women participated in the full-throttle play.
“Demolition derby driving is where you fix up old cars, and then compete with other drivers by driving the cars into each other,” she explained. “There are certain hits you can do and then the last car standing is the winner.”
Online, the fearless fox has scored over a staggering 23.4 million TikTok views on footage of herself engaged in the rough-and-tumble recreation — including a clip of her wrist snapping in two during a wild match.
“It’s a heavily male-dominated sport and it intrigued me to compete in it,” said Giles. “It really brought out my competitive side. I like to prove what I can do and that I can do whatever men can do — but even better sometimes.”
The daredevil diva highly prides herself on being better than her male counterparts at restoring raggedy rides.
“I do like to brag about it a little bit because when you derby, the guys usually don’t work on their car alone,” she said. “They’ve got six buddies helping them, but I build my own car, without any help, as a single mom.
“Nobody sponsors me, and all the money comes out of my pocket,” groaned Giles. “Just because I’m a female, I have to work twice as hard to get the level of respect that these other guys just walk in and get automatically.”
Her single-handed success notwithstanding, the thrill-seeking siren says she’s often shunned by her fellow derby devotees.
“I always feel like I am undermined by the men in demolition derby driving. I’m not taken seriously or they assume that I [don’t] know what I am talking about,” she said.
“They expect me to be haggard and not care about my appearance,” continued the motoring mama. “When I show up to compete with my lashes done and lipstick on, I can tell that people are thinking that there is no way I should be doing this.”
And if it’s not the men of derby giving her the cold shoulder, it’s their significant others who regularly subject Giles to frosty treatment due to her hot looks.
“I can’t just hang out with my derby buddies because their wives assume I have different intentions,” she lamented. “They don’t understand that I am not interested in their husbands, we are just talking about derby cars.”
The unwarranted hate leaves the smoke show driver hot under the collar.
“It’s frustrating that just because I am a woman, I can’t just talk with my friends about cars,” said Giles. “It’s always seen as something more.”
Past boyfriends have even made rude remarks about her alluring appearance and love for derby.
“An ex also once told me that he didn’t know if I would ever find a guy masculine enough to handle me,” Giles remembered. “I didn’t know how to take that.”
The shady digs she’s endured are eerily similar to those that are frequently shot at a five-foot-two female truck driver named Kodi. “People don’t believe me because I’m pretty but look young, I’m short and weigh 125,” said the lady trucker in a viral TikTok clip shared in April. “All I hear at truck stops: That’s you driving that 18-wheeler?.”
And in a May 2023 memoir entitled “Burnt,” female firefighter Clare Frank revealed the harassment she faced at the hands of “sexist pigs” during her tenure on the force.
However, like both women, Giles isn’t allowing sly comments from naysayers to deter her from wowing on and off the racetrack.
“It’s one extreme or another with me. I’m either so done up and looking cute, or I am working on cars,” said the adrenaline junkie.
“When I am not building my cars, I enjoy pampering myself,” she continued. “I love to get my lashes, nails, hair, and eyebrows done.”
“Getting massages is one of my favorite things to do too. It helps me feel confident,” said the intrepid pinup. “On the other hand, I am good at what I do with cars.”
And she hopes that her twinning tastes for primping and driving teach others that women’s hobbies aren’t one-dimensional.
“I love proving to everyone that you can do both,” said Giles. “You don’t have to choose to be one thing.”
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