Bettina May has been a pin-up model and burlesque performer since 2003, starting her career as a model for SuicideGirls.com and brought her classic Hollywood glamour onstage shortly thereafter. Since then, she has been the subject of the 2003 HBO RealSex TV show on Modern Pin-up, appeared in the music videos like Probot's "Shake Your Blood" featuring Dave Grohl and Lemmy Kilmister and did a burlesque performance on Bravo's Real Housewives of NYC. She was just awarded possibly the first ever green card in America based on her outstanding achievement in burlesque and vintage styling, her official title according to US Immigration being "Alien of Extraordinary Ability"! She has also been featured regularly in the The New York Times Style Section, New York Post, Shimmy Magazine, Dynamite Magazine in Germany, and Portuguese Vogue!

She has received a number of awards for her innovative yet classic dance style, earning the title "Most Energetic Dancer (Female)" in the 2003 local Monday Magazine arts awards show and in 2006 she was again recognized by Monday Magazine readers, being awarded "Favourite Dancer." Most recently Victoria's Times-Colonist daily paper named her "Most Fashionable Woman" of 2008. She recently won a coveted Golden Pastie award for Miss Congeniality, for "the performer who is always a lady on and off stage", which made her mother very proud.

She has performed at burlesque festivals in New Orleans, New York City and Vancouver, Canada, and has lent her talents to a wide variety of benefit shows, including the 2006 Miss Exotic World Show in Las Vegas, as well as benefits for New Orleans musicians after Hurricane Katrina and has modeled for PETA's anti-fur campaign.

She is also a much sought-after pin-up photographer and vintage stylist, putting her love of vintage style to good use as a consultant for period films and running her successful pin-up makeover classes, which she styles and shoots herself. She has been teaching classes since 2006, bringing her unique body-positive full-day experience to Canada, the US and Europe. Her class has appeared nationally on NBC's First Look and has been profiled in the NY Times and Greenpoint Gazette.

When she's not on stage or in front of the camera, she is running her male pin-up magazine An Occasional Man, which she started in April 2008! She also runs her successful vintage-style glamour accessory company, Coquette Faux Furriers, outfitting the likes of Bernie Dexter, Dita Von Teese and Kitten DeVille.