Christina Bartges liked to play it rough and dirty when she was younger, but now that she already has her own young one, she tells JUICE how she learned to imitate the calm of her favorite ocean waters, not to say she’s no longer ready to roll with a mean wave.

Once upon a time, she was a little farm girl in San Juan, Batangas, and during the estate’s first fish harvest, she and her sister—seven and five-years old—got to grab them fishes by the head, or by the tail, depending on how they wiggled underfoot. “That was a really funny experience,” she recalls. “Just muddy and dirty, and what kid doesn’t love that?”

She grew into a skating-snowboarding vamp in Munich, slid her way into university while bartending, on the cuts of prestige advertisements, and onto the pages of fine magazines as a model and as DJ Miss Badkiss (a very rough verbal approximation of her surname).

Christina ruled the night scene after working in Munich’s “Cheeky Mickey” spot, where she learned how the “most flashy and loud are usually the ones that don’t have money,” how to smack rude bitches messing with her décolletage, and how to spin a good, dirty beat.

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“If music has a dark, badass baseline, that brings out the bad girl in me,” she says. “It makes me make that face,” her lip curls just that little bit, “because I can really feel it in my gut.” Her fine mix of soul, hip-hop, R&B, and even dubstep is well-received during her Friday slots in Manila sophisticates’ hangout M Café. That’s where she plays with Kristian Hernandez a.k.a. Boogie, father to their little one, Maceo, who’s fittingly named after the jazz saxophonist Maceo Parker.

Today, Christina walks into the coffee shop while pushing a stroller, and the little boy, barely nine months, tries to grab my recorder. She tells me how to make her go-to recipe, fish and roast vegetables, saying great healthy cooking is all it takes for her to give anyone a kiss. Forget about the bad. The girl’s mostly about home now.

She reminisces of winters in Munich, “They get together outside in these markets, and they get a big mug of tea or hot wine,” a particular kind of red wine with spices like cinnamon and cloves, “and they drink, and they laugh. They have cookies. It’s really nice. I miss cold Christmas.”

It may not be as cold in Manila, but she’s learned to love the islands just as much. She says of her love for surfing, “It’s not like I go out every weekend, but…it’s something that you can pursue all your life. The ocean’s always gonna be there.” And she can. Christina has dutifully cared for her figure, still ready for pin-ups.

“I’d take it more rockabilly than classic pin-up,” she says of her shoot for JUICE, “but iconic for me would be Bettie Page ‘cause she’s a little bit more rough. She also became an idol for fetish. Style-wise, I’d rather be on the fetish side.” Christina laughs like what you’d expect from her Badkiss persona. She may be a mom now, but we’re talking about a hot one. She adds, “You know, on the rebel side, on the left of center.”

Having her baby to take care of makes Christina stay in her crib more often, but DVDs make for her saving grace. Obviously, music is still of best interest.

Beats Rhymes & Life (2011)

“It’s a documentary on A Tribe Called Quest.”

Daydream Nation (2010)

“With Kat Dennings. I actually watched it twice ‘cause it’s really nice.”

Maestro (2003)

“It’s the story of Larry Levan. He’s the iconic DJ of the Paradise Garage in New York.”

If Christina were in cold ol’ Munich for Christmas, these are books she could be reading while curling in a warm sofa and sipping hot, mulled wine.

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster

“It’s the history of DJing—how it started, how it developed through the movers and shakers. It’s also a history of pop culture, of how disco is actually the mother of everything—the mother of hip-hop, the mother of house…”

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I was able to draw from it a lot of parallels to my life—how being young and beautiful is not gonna last. At some point, it’s gonna fade away, and you’re gonna be old and unhappy if you don’t find something that’s real for yourself.”

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

“Something that accompanied me since my teenage years. He’s a classic German writer. It teaches you a lot without using the moral finger. It just tells the story, and you can pull out the lesson that you wanna learn without it actually forcing that on you.”

Christina is a healthy eater, but when she eats out, she chooses the best plates to her heart’s content.

“I always have the Carnitas Burrito, but just with the black beans, not with the refried beans… I think they make their tortillas themselves, and it’s a burrito, but it doesn’t taste like junk food at all. Everything is really clean. Their guacamole is really fresh. Their salsas are good.”

“I love the Lola Ata’s Spicy Pepper US Beef Short Ribs Sinigang. It’s really amazing. It’s beef although, usually, sinigang is pork or milkfish. It’s really tender, and they give you a teapot full of broth to go with it, so you can just refill.”

We like sitting outside. I love the sushi and takoyaki. 

JUICE made a little list of people—personal, political, or just plain popular—around DJ Miss Badkiss, and she tells us how they are in tune.

Maceo, her son: Maceo Parker – “Pass the Peas”

Kristian Hernandez, Maceo’s father: Rufus ft. Chaka Khan – “Circles”

Santa Claus: “Vom Himmel Hoch” (traditional German Christmas song)

Klaus Bartges, her father: Ludwig van Beethoven – “Moonlight Sonata”

Lindsay Lohan: Destiny’s Child – “Nasty Girl”

Her girlfriends: Erykah Badu – “Appletree”

President Aquino: Michael Jackson – “In the Closet”

Her mother: Johann Sebastian Bach – “Air Suite No. 3 in D Major”

Carlos Celdran – Gil Scott-Heron – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

Justin Bieber: Esthero – “We R in Need of a Musical Revolution”