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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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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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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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Posted by Eva Voorhees on September 11, 2009 · 4 Comments
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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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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