- Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Gattaca" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" movies (2003–04). - Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Corine Ambrósio, popularly nicknamed Ale, is a Brazilian supermodel. Her last name is spelled "Ambrósio", but the diacritic mark is omitted in her modeling work. She was described by retired supermodel Tyra Banks as "The future of the modeling world". She is best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret and was chosen as their first spokesmodel for Victoria's Secret PINK line. She is currently one of Victoria’s Secret Angels. - Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni Tedeschi (born Turin, Italy, 23 December, 1968), is an Italian-born French supermodel, songwriter and singer. She is the sister of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. - Mariane Pearl
Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (b. July 23, 1967 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French freelance journalist, reporter and Global Diary columnist for "Glamour" magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the "Wall Street Journal" reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Of Dutch-Jewish, Afro-Latino-Cuban and Chinese Cuban ancestry and raised in Paris, … - Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier is a French-born fashion photographer. Born in Le Havre in 1943, Demarchelier has lived in New York City since 1975. He has worked for magazines such as "Glamour", "Mademoiselle", "Vogue", "GQ", and "Rolling Stone". Since 1992 he has worked with "Harper's Bazaar", becoming its premier photographer. Demarchelier was awarded the contract for the 2005 Pirelli Calendar. - Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes (born January 23, 1985) is a Dutch supermodel. She was born in the town of Oostermeer, in Friesland, The Netherlands and is signed by DNA Models. Kroes has made the covers of "Time", "Vogue", "Harper's Bazaar", and "Numero". She also appears regularly in the Victoria's Secret catalog and was featured in their fashion show in 2005 and 2006. Kroes has also been in campaigns by Gucci, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Escada, … - Somaly Mam
Her book The Road to Innocence , by Somaly Mam , will be published in 2006, by Virago. She says: "I've written this book because I know that I will be killed and I don't want to go without leaving a trace." At great risk to her own life, one woman takes on the illegal sex trade in Cambodia. In spite of being the target of death threats, Somaly Mam has not relinquished her campaign against the spread and causes of child prostitution and slavery in her home country of Cambodia. - Valeria Mazza
Valeria Raquel Mazza (born February 17, 1972) is an Argentine fashion supermodel. She was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, and discovered when she was only 16 years old by hairstylist Roberto Giordano. She rose to fame in 1996 when she appeared on the "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit Issue cover with Tyra Banks, and presented the San Remo Music Festival in Italy. Mazza has also appeared on the covers of "Glamour", "ELLE", and "Vogue". - Bonnie Fuller
Bonnie Fuller was the editor of "Flare" magazine, YM magazine, the first American edition of "Marie Claire" magazine, "Cosmopolitan" magazine, "Glamour" magazine (beginning in 1998), and "Us Weekly". Her tenure at these publications was marked by a change in content towards a more sensationalistic sensibility, resulting in the desired increase in circulation. Always known throughout her industry as a tough boss, … - Brooklyn Decker
Brooklyn Decker (born 1987 in Kettering, Ohio) is an American fashion model. While a child, Decker and her family moved to Middletown, Ohio, for around a year. Decker was discovered in a shopping mall in Charlotte, North Carolina, while a teenager and has gone on to model campaigns and catalogs for the Gap, Victoria's Secret and J. C. Penney. She had worked for a period as a model in Australia. - Cynthia Leive
Cynthia (Cindi) Leive is the Editor in Chief of "Glamour" magazine. Under Leive, "Glamour" has received a record number of editorial awards. Furthermore, "Glamour's" circulation has risen to its highest levels ever, with a rate base of 2.25 million. "Crain’s" put Leive on its "Top 40 Under 40" list, and Leive was also named one of "Gotham" magazine’s most powerful women under 40 in New York. - Cheryl Tiegs
Cheryl Cox Tiegs (born September 25, 1947, in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American model. Her popularity signaled the rise of tall models[citation needed], as she stands 1,79 m (5'10" to 5'11") in height. Tiegs was born in Minnesota, but raised in C... more - Lauren Bush
Lauren Bush is a fashion model and the daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush (née Smith) and niece of President of the United States George W. Bush and granddaughter of President George H. W. Bush. Bush was born in Texas and went to high school in Houston at The Kinkaid School. (Her sister, Ashley, will graduate from Kinkaid in 2007.) Bush has studied fashion design at Parsons The New School for Design and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. - Mukhtaran Bibi
Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural "tehsil" (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. Mukhtar Mai suffered a gang rape as a form of honor-revenge (see honour killing), on the demands of tribesmen - or by some accounts, on the orders of a "panchayat" (tribal council) - of a local clan known as the Mastoi, a clan that was richer and more powerful than Mukhtaran's clan, the Tatla. - Nicholas Coleridge
Nicholas Coleridge is the Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes "Glamour", "GQ", "House and Garden", "Vogue", "Tatler", and "Vanity Fair". He is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London during its most troubled period in the late 1980s. - Karen Mulder
Karen Mulder, born June 1, 1970 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (near Rotterdam) and raised in Den Haag and Voorburg, Holland, is a former Dutch supermodel. - Tatjana Patitz
Tatjana Patitz is a German supermodel and actress. Patitz was born in Hamburg, Germany and raised in Skanör, Sweden. She began working as a model in Paris at the age of 17. By 1990, she had become one of the great supermodels that would dominate the 1990s, appearing on over 130 magazine covers in the course of her career. In 1987 she filmed the Duran Duran video for the song "Skin Trade" from the album "Notorious". - Talisa Soto
Talisa Soto (born Miriam Soto on March 27, 1967) is an American model and actress of Puerto Rican descent - Patti Hansen
Patti Hansen (born 1956http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361039/)was a major supermodel in the 1970s and early 1980s - appearing regularly on the covers and in the pages of American "Vogue", "Glamour", and "Harper's Bazaar". She was born and raised in the Tottenville section of Staten Island, New York. A scout for the Wilhelmina modeling agency discovered her at a Staten Island hot dog stand when she was a teenager. - Jennifer Baumgardner
Jennifer Baumgardner (b. circa 1970) is an author and feminist activist. Her books include "Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future" written with Amy Richards, and "Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics". Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1992. Subsequently, she moved to New York City where she took a job writing for Ms. Magazine. - Rachel Sklar
Rachel Sklar is a Toronto-born lawyer and New York-based media blogger. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where she was the Vice-President Communications of the University Students' Council, as well as a regular contributor of the campus newspaper, The Gazette. She was also an active member of the University of Western Ontario Debating Society. She graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she was valedictorian. - Linda Vojtova
Linda Vojtova (born June 22, 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovakian supermodel. She was the winner of Elite Model Look in 2000, when she was 15. Since then, she has been appearing in various model magazines including but not limiting to "Vogue", "Elle", "Glamour", "Amica", "The European Magazine", "Surface". She is best known for her collaboration with German lingerie brand Palmers, and Victoria's Secret. - Daniela Peštová
Daniela Peštová is a Czech supermodel. She was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, and was discovered by the Madison Modeling Agency's Dominique Caffin. She had plans to attend college but after winning a modelling contest she moved to Paris to sign with Madison Modeling Agency. She later on moved to New York and from there her career took off. She has appeared on the covers of "GQ", "Marie Claire", "Cosmopolitan", "Glamour" and "ELLE". - Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore (born in Idaho on September 10, 1979) is an American supermodel. - Lois Chiles
Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947) is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film "Moonraker". She resides in Houston, Texas. - Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer who has published two novels, "Prep", a tale about a New England prep school, and "The Man of My Dreams", another coming-of-age novel, as well as other short stories. Elizabeth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second of four children (three girls and a boy) of Paul G., an investment adviser, and Elizabeth (Curtis) Sittenfeld, an art history teacher at the Seven Hills School, … - Karenna Gore Schiff
Karenna Gore Schiff is the daughter of Al and Tipper Gore . Her father, Al Gore , represented Tennessee as a United States Congressman and Senator before serving as Vice-President of the United States. Karenna is the only child of a candidate to have officially nominated their parent in a presidential campaign. She worked as the Youth Outreach Chair in her father's campaign for president and plans to continue to be involved in the political arena. - Elsa Benítez
Elsa Benítez is a Mexican supermodel. Benítez was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and she got her modeling start after winning an international model search, held in Costa Rica in 1995. With Linda Evangelista as one of her childhood idols, Benítez decided to follow her dream of modeling. Modeling opportunities opened up for Benítez soon after, first in Mexico, where she started out her career, and then in the United States and Europe. - Elaine Irwin Mellencamp
Elaine Irwin Mellencamp is a former supermodel, and currently works as a spokeswoman for Almay Cosmetics. She is married to rock star John "Cougar" Mellencamp. Both reside in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States, and she continues to work as a fashion model. Elaine was born in 1970 in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. At 16, she left home to pursue a modeling career. After her photo appeared in "Seventeen" in 1985, … - Linda Morand
Linda Morand was a very successful fashion model, cover-girl and "haute couture" "mannequin" during the 1960s and 1970s. Known as ‘Superchick” Linda Morand was a modern fashion pioneer, a beacon of revolutionary style, avant-garde beauty trends and a major face in the Mod Sixties. She appeared in national ads, TV commercials and national catalogs. She was discovered by Eileen Ford in 1966 and appeared in "Vogue", "Glamour", … - Yamila Díaz
Yamila Díaz-Rahi ,Fashion Milan<br - Daphne Maxwell Reid
Daphne Maxwell Reid (born July 13 1948 in New York City, New York) is an actress. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She received a degree in interior design and architecture from Northwestern University which she attended on a scholarship and was the first African-American woman to be named Homecoming Queen. While at Northwestern she began a modeling career, eventually signing with the Eileen Ford modeling agency. - Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby (1945-) is an American author. Her most recent book is "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism" (2004). "Freethinkers" was named a notable book of 2004 by "The Washington Post" and "The New York Times". It was also named an Outstanding International Book of the Year by the "Times Literary Supplement" (London) and "The Guardian". - Anne Herbert
Anne Herbert (1952-) is an American writer and a past assistant editor of "CoEvolution Quarterly", a precursor to the "Whole Earth Review". She is perhaps best known for being the person who coined the phrases, … - Monique Olsen
Monique Grotto Olsen is a Brazilian born fashion model of German descent. Olsen works for Mega Models - São Paulo; Mega Models - Miami; Women Management; Women Management - Milan; Traffic Models; Traffic Models; Premier Model Management; and Saturo Japan, INC. Olsen has appeared in numerous ad campaigns, including D&G, Agilita, Huis Clos, Someday, and Stussy. Olsen has graced the pages of fashion editorials for magazines like "Vogue" Italia, "Vogue" Russia, … - Cindy Chupack
Cindy Chupack is a screenwriter and executive producer who worked on "Sex and the City". Four episodes she produced ("Evolution," "Attack of the 5'10" Woman," "Just Say Yes," and "Plus One is the Loneliest Number") were nominated for WGA and Emmy awards. Before working on Sex and the City, Chupack worked on "Everybody Loves Raymond" as a writer/co-executive producer. Her first book, "The Between Boyfriends Book", was published by St. Martin's Press. - Nicole Marie Lenz
Nicole Marie Lenz (born January 24, 1980 in North Royalton, Ohio) is an American model, actress and a figure in some celebrity scandals. Her looks can be attributed to her Swedish, Dutch, Italian, and German heritage. Nicole was discovered by a local Cleveland modeling agency. Where then after she won third place in a contest to become one of Playboy Magazines Millennium Search Playmates. - Kristin Harmel
Kristin Harmel (born May 4, 1979) is an American journalist and novelist. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, Harmel gained her first writing experience at the age of 16 as a sports reporter for the "St. Petersburg Times", which ranks as one of the nation's top 10 newspapers, and "Tampa Bay AllSports" magazine while still attending Northeast High School in St. Petersburg, Florida. - Sanne Nijhof
Sanne Nijhof (born October 20, 1987 in Den Ham, The Netherlands) is a Dutch model. - Catherine McCord
Catherine McCord is an American fashion model, actress, and television program hostess. She was born on May 10, 1974, in Louisville, Kentucky, and began modeling for Elite Model Management at the age of 14. She has modeled for Victoria's Secret and L’eggs pantyhose, appeared on the covers of "Glamour" and "ELLE" magazines, and done runway modeling for Donna Karan and Calvin Klein.
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