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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 17 Comments
Rosie Vela was born Roseanne Vela in Galveston Texas on November 11, 1954.
Vela’s family later moved to Arkansas, where she attended the University of Arkansas. Whilst studying art and music, Vela also began modeling. She married the Arkansas born musician, Jimmy Roberts, but he died of cancer shortly after. Following this, Vela moved to New [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
WEDDINGS; Maria von Hartz, Jay Shapiro
Published: Sunday, March 17, 1996
Maria von Hartz, the daughter of Katherine and John von Hartz of New York, was married yesterday in Los Angeles to Jay Shapiro, a son of Rose Shapiro of Dominguez Hills, Calif., and Pete Shapiro of Los Angeles. The Rev. Gary Musgrove, a nondenominational minister, performed [...]
Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 4 Comments
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.
Rossellini is the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and the Italian director [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 8 Comments
Talisa Soto (born March 27, 1967) is an American model and actress of Puerto Rican descent.
Soto was born Miriam Soto in Brooklyn, New York, where her parents moved to from Puerto Rico in the 1950s. Her parents relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts when she was still just a child. Soto’s family was one of the few Puerto Rican families that [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 7 Comments
Kim Alexis was born and reared in upstate New York. Always competitive, Kim was deeply involved in junior high and high school athletics, and is a marathoner. She originally had planned a career in pharmacology.
At the age of 18, she was “discovered” by the Elite Talent Agency. She soon moved to New York City and [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 3 Comments
Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid (born July 25, 1955), professionally known as Iman (which means “faith” in Arabic), is a Somali model, actress, and entrepreneur. She is married to David Bowie.
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iman is the daughter of Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid, a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and has two brothers, Elyas and Feisal, [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 8 Comments
Rosemary McGrotha was born November 8, 1958 in Tallahassee, Florida.
McGrotha was the antithesis of the conventional rail thin fashion model. A voluptuous brunette with piercing blue eyes, she broke the model stereotype and reigned in a category all her own, and was one of the most sought after models for more than a decade.
McGrotha was [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 13 Comments
Renee Toft Simonson, born May 12, 1965, is a former model from Denmark, who currently works as a writer. Simonsen was one of the most successful models in the world during the 1980s.
Simonsen was born in Aarhus, Denmark, where she worked as a supermarket cashier before she was discovered.
In 1981 she caught the attention of [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 4 Comments
Kelly LeBrock, born March 24, 1960, is an English actress, model, and ’80’s sex icon known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red, co-starring Comedian Gene Wilder, and the following cult film Weird Science, directed by the legendary, late John Hughes.
LeBrock was born in New York City, New York, but raised in London, England and in the countryside in Sussex. [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 11 Comments
Paulina Porizkova, born April 9, 1965, is a Czech model and actress.
Born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, she was still a toddler when her father and mother left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left Paulina under the care of her grandmother, believing that their daughter could [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 3 Comments
Before Vera Wang became a national symbol for creativity and success, she was a talented and spirited fashion editor for Vogue Magazine. In 1981 she began featuring a new face in her glamorous editorial pages. Today artist Wanakee Pugh credits Ms. Wang for giving her a tremendous start that launched a successful twenty-year modeling career. [...]
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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 12, 2009 · 4 Comments
Uber-Hot Late ’70’s, Early ’80’s Supermodel. Juli was one of the first fashion models to appear on the cover of Time magazine in 1982, she was also featured on: British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Fashions of the Times.
Advertising clients included: Charles of the Ritz, Lancetti, Hanes, DeBeers, Fendi Furs, Weathervane, Royal Silk.
Juli worked with Jaques [...]
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