"It's difficult for you," she says, plucking an avocado from the grocery bag. ""First off, you say 'model.' So much so that I fail to note whom Roddick is standing with in the photo.

She was then merely a swimsuit model and may in fact be only that now: known for her frame, for her confident carriage in body paint, for the slope of the back of her legs, for eyes that issue the command Brooklyn Decker's sum of the whole of Brooklyn Decker?

Somehow it's charming.Ask Brooklyn Decker what she knows, and she will laugh and winnow it down to very little.

After a moment, she opens her eyes for a quizzical look at me.

Too hot to eat, really.

She doesn't want to disappoint. Right in there amongst Aniston, Kidman, and Sandler, each desperately tit-twisting the hell out of every laugh, Decker plays an honest-to-God clueless straight man.

And I'm a model. I want to halt her progress up the platitude trail.

My obligations to her beauty have become overwhelming.

So rude. She must know that beautiful women have always made men pour forth the dopey war stories of work and travel. "She's chewing her food, smiling. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. You know? A young cook's mistake.

"You close your eyes," she says.

She's the careless kind, a drop-your-bag-on-the-floor-and-live-out-of-it slob. So far there's very little, nothing lasting.

Next time we meet, you'll call me Brook. The chicken was good when it came out of the oven.

"Yeah. "And you'll think I'm a slob." Brooklyn Decker, Actress: Just Go with It. A first step, anyway. "Start with young guys maybe. This is so she can offer wine, tend to her guest without apology for the things she can't do.One thing she can't do: She can't explain how she got here, not clearly. "It does.

Brooklyn Danielle Decker (born April 12, 1987) is an American model and actress best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, including the cover of the 2010 issue. You're dealing with a college kid. I would have called it halfway decent. Then she glances from my eyes to my plate theatrically, emanating a little alarm. What about a guy who's Roddick's age? You may be able to find more information on their web site. But I find myself nodding. Hot as hell.She thinks it over. I ask. And when it comes to the game playing, enough. There is no camera. "Don't make everybody deal with your want all the time.

We're supposed to be looking into the sun, though I am looking straight at her face.She talks to me like a Pilates instructor: "Keep them closed, face the sun. "I'm not a wine person," I say. Brooklyn Decker: funny, unobligated, young.

She's speaking to me. Brooklyn has been a fashion model and a celebrity from the calendar year 2003 until the current moment. The young slob at rest, hiding nothing with the habit, hurting no one. "I'm not a politician. Decker has German, English, and Irish ancestry. She's just starting out. She wants to teach me her tricks, which she says aren't hers at all. Young, right? "Close them." Aren't you a model and an actress? This seems a comfort to her. But what about an essay question, something like: "What do you know about men?" She sees it and laughs. A movement so easy, so thoughtless and accurate, that it says one thing clearly: The woman is young. "Well, come on. But it was too hot, and so, when opened up by the knife, the meat dried out immediately. I'm a model. When I open my eyes, I find that she is leaning in a little, over the kitchen counter, arms folded under her breasts, smiling.

"Not exactly.