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Joan Severance, born December 23, 1958, is an American actress and former fashion model.
Born in Houston, Texas, Severance’s family moved often while she was growing up. The family had to leave Libya during the Six Day War in 1967. They moved back to Houston where she attended Westbury High School and, at the age of [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 11, 2009 · 5 Comments
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Beginning at the age of 17, the classically-trained ballerina spent a year performing with the San Francisco Ballet under Artistic Director Michael Smuin. Then, in 1978, the lanky teen began a seven-year stint that would make her one of Europe’s most successful fashion models. She would ultimately grace over a dozen major magazine covers – [...]
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Shelly Smith was born in Princeton, New Jersey October 25, 1952.
Smith was a popular print and runway model in the 1970s and ’80s. Smith also acted in dozens of popular TV series throughout the ”70’s and ’90’s, although her greatest success was on celebrity game shows such as: Battle of the Network Stars,” (1979), “Super [...]
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Shelly Marie Hack (born July 6, 1947) is an American former actress and model.
Hack was born in Grenwich Connecticut. She graduated from Greenwich Academy and Smith College. She began her career as a teen fashion model and became the face of Revlon’s Charlie perfume in the mid 1970s, which gave her national exposure on television. [...]
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Former Model’s Product Hides Nipples under Sheer Clothes
July 8, 2003
BIRMINGHAM, AL (AP) — An entrepreneur and former fashion model in Birmingham, Alabama, has a product that she says will save women a lot of embarrassment.
Sheila Johnson and her husband Kraig are the designers of Nippits. They’re an adhesive cosmetic product that allows women to hide [...]
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Born in 1954, Rene Marie Russo grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Burbank, a Los Angeles suburb. Her father, a sculptor and mechanic, left the family when Rene was just two, leaving her mother, Shirley, as a single mom with two daughters. (Rene has one sister, named Toni). In Junior High [...]
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Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski) is a German actress, who has appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of ‘Tess Durbeyfield’ in Roman Polanski’s film Tess, her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), and her parts in Wim Wenders’ [...]
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Former Supermodel and actor Monika Schnarre has set her sights on yet another career… After 40 plus movie and television appearances, Monika has decided to leave the acting world and take on a new career as a Television Host. Landing her first gig right away on Celebrity: RSVP, which takes you behind the scenes of Hollywood’s [...]
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Modeled for: American Vogue and Italian Vogue. As Calvin Klein’s pre-Brooke Shields muse, the 5′9″ Taylor epitomized the fresh-scrubbed style of the 70s. “Lisa is the ultimate combination of sporty and sexy, which is the quintessential American look,” says Michael Kors, who wrote a tribute to her in Vogue in May explaining how a 1976 photo [...]
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For John Casablancas, an Italian restaurant in Stockholm was Schwab’s Drug Store, and a high school girl checking coats was Lana Turner. “You know, you could be a model,” said Casablancas, the founder of Elite Model Management and the firm’s chairman of the board, to the tall 17-year-old with long brown hair and piercing blue-green [...]
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Demand Grows For Older Models
July 13, 2008
There’s been a sea change in the fashion industry — the rise of models over age 40. Lara Harris, a “classic” model” who put her second career as a psychotherapist on hold to return to modeling, speaks to host Andrea Seabrook.
ANDREA SEABROOK, host:
Your average runway fashion model these days [...]
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For Jane Gill, modeling was a family business she entered into effortlessly. Her sister, Kit Gill, was a top model in the 50s and 60s. As a young teen, Jane loved to accompany Kit on her bookings in New York. On one of these shoots, Jane had the good fortune to meet Bill Blass. Blass [...]
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Eva Voorhees, born in Los Angeles, California, established a reputation in the late seventies and the eighties as one of the most captivating models of her time. With her soft, romantic face, deep green eyes and full lips, Eva’s Pre-Raphaelite appearance was unique in the fashion industry.
Eva started modeling out of high school in her [...]
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Donna at Dead Horse Canyon | Moab, Utah | Bazaar
Model Donna Stia on a beauty shoot for Bazaar. Donna had never rappelled before. Our guides took her through it without props, and sans the appropriate garments. On her 2nd try Donna descended a bit too quickly for me to get all the shots that I [...]
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Daniela Ghione was born on October 13, 1964 in Torino, Italy. When she was barely 16 years old, a photographer’s agent and close friend of hers recognized her potential to succeed as a fashion model based on her uncommon beauty and stature.
Soon after her friend’s encouragement, the scientific secondary student set off for Milan: [...]