“It was not my first record,” Camille Rowe says, bursting into laughter. The French-American actor and model is talking about being the muse for Fine Line, her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles’s 2019 album. While she may be kidding, she’s also telling the truth.

Who can blame Styles—or the other directors, photographers, and musicians for whom Rowe has been a muse? But Styles “was not an easy person to date in terms of the attention it brings,” Rowe admits. She hopes to be known on her own terms.