they've got legs for days and looks that
could kill but there are some big brains
behind those flawless faces from coding
to photography to um glassware here's
why beauty and what's considered normal
is in the eye of the beholder
carly kloss got scouted at a mall at age
13 and as she told usa today i at the
time had no idea of fashion and of the
modeling world but claus quickly made a
name for herself as a teen with vogue
paris pegging her as one of the top 30
models of the 2000s i wish i would have
been a little more mature a little older
because there's a lot this career you
know there's a lot you have to handle
these days along with modeling kloss has
turned her attention to other ventures
and she's since discovered coding
launching code with klossy a program
designed to get young girls into
computer programming she explained to
usa today i have been able to meet so
many entrepreneurs in tech and i think
everyone realizes it's the language
that's building the technology of today
and certainly of our future the stunner
has also branched into baking teaming up
with momofuku milk bar to create a
nutritious cookie line called carly's
cookies and in 2018 she took over as
host and later appeared as a guest judge
of bravo's project runway after heidi
klum and tim gunn stepped away from the
series
the iconic stephanie seymour was also
part of the 90s supermodel squad and she
put her clout behind victoria's secret
in its heyday as page six reported a
brand creative director once called
seymour ambitious disciplined and
professional she had no problems taking
off her clothes and doing what had to be
done seymour also made headlines for her
love life she was married to guitarist
tommy andrews and had a high profile
relationship with guns and rose's front
man axel rose she then married
billionaire peter brandt and the couple
had three children once seymour was
ready to shift away from modeling she
took a page out of her past and launched
a lingerie line raven and sparrow she
told the cfda in 2017 i have always
loved lingerie lingerie has its place in
fashion and i believe it's a partially
lost art that i would like to bring back
i wanted to create a brand this is not a
celebrity line i work with very good
designers who have a lot to do with what
i am doing i didn't want to put my name
out there and not theirs
rosie huntington whiteley rose to fame
as a victoria's secret angel discovered
as a teen the model and actor has
enjoyed an action-packed career ever
since she told harper's bazaar in 2019
i've worked every day since i was 16
years old i've tried to be professional
in every way i have really dedicated
myself to my career yes i am determined
you have to be if you want to continue
working it doesn't just hand itself to
you the one piece of career advice
that's always stuck with me is it takes
a lifetime to build a reputation and
just one second to destroy it while she
had major success as a model huntington
whiteley became an entrepreneur in 2018
with her beauty brand and digital world
rose inc she said it feels like my whole
career led me to this point as a mother
herself huntington whiteley targets the
busy mom as well as working women and
the strategy seems to be a success the
model is worth an estimated 30 million
dollars thanks to the line as well as
her lingerie collection for marx and
spencer her modeling and acting
famous for his work with dolce at
gabbana david gandy became one of the
highest paid male models in the world
but none of that came easy as he told
the diary of a ceo in october 2021 you
have to have that ambition to know the
exact point to where you want to be once
gandhi made it to the top he was ready
to try something new this fresh concept
was a clothing brand called david gandy
wellware with the mission to empower
people to live happier stress-reduced
lives with a greater sense of well-being
and style gandhi calls his brand
emotionally durable and the entire line
including loungewear and sweats is meant
to inspire confidence it's a concept
that's personal for gandhi as he
admitted to diary of a ceo no one can be
as
harsh a critic to me as i am myself
i will beat myself up in something
failures
adrian curry won the debut season of
america's next top model in 2003 and
while she saw some initial success it
appeared that the industry wasn't
everything she thought it would be not
only that but she claimed that a sponsor
for the series made promises that were
never honored in a since deleted
instagram post curry said we were led to
believe daily the winner would be
instantly rich and a huge revlon cover
girl this was a lie after the show
revlon informed me it didn't matter who
won they were never going to have us as
a model she claimed that several revlon
staffers took pity on her and paid her a
small amount to have a makeup artist
work with her but ultimately it was a
hollow offer she said i never got the
money to this day i have not been paid
curry also got implants to better her
chances in the industry a decision she
ultimately regretted as she revealed to
intouch in 2022 the one on my right side
had ruptured inside and leaked which
caused necrosis where the flesh dies so
they had to remove most of my real
breasts on the right side which meant
they had to give me a huge breast
reduction in light of these difficult
experiences curry moved to montana to
seek out a simpler way of living she
married the love of her life and now
sells avon while keeping fans updated on
her blog and i'm like and by god's
blessing here it is think
helena christensen hit the spotlight
after winning miss universe denmark in
1986. and joined the og team of
supermodels who took over the world she
was a victoria's secret angel and
starring chris isaac's music video for
wicked game but helena says it wasn't as
hot to shoot as it was to watch she's a
great actress i mean she really she put
her
she pretended to like me as christensen
recalled to glamour to be completely
honest and this might ruin the romantic
notion of the video but my legs were
bleeding from the knees and down because
i was running on black lava and it was
cutting into my skin so not so glamorous
and sexy at all but who cares it was
worth it easy and cool you know you just
do it and
there's nothing special about it more
than three decades later christensen now
works as a photographer publishing her
work in everything from vogue to fat
magazine she's also a co-founder of
nylon magazine as well as the creative
director for the luxury fragrance line
strange love
supermodel rachel hunter entered the
industry reluctantly never considering
it a lifelong career she told beautiful
humans i never wanted to be a model i
did not think highly of it i did the
covers of australian vogue i thought i
would do modeling for six months earn
some money and then that would be it but
of course that wasn't it hunter went on
to have an incredibly successful career
and starred in the tv series rachel
hunter's tour of beauty but while she
covered italian vogue elle and harper's
bazaar it was never the right fit as she
wrote on her website i would always
retreat into a church into a garden or
into the woods into different spiritual
practices my heart yearned always to
return to the inner sanctum after
hearing her late mother once say that
she regretted not taking the chance in
life to really be herself hunter
journeyed to india to expand her
spiritual practice the experience was so
life-altering that she studied to become
a teacher hunter now hosts yoga retreats
in bali you always are who you are
you can't hide that
kim stoltz made a name for herself on
america's next top model season 5. while
she didn't win she still went on to land
a role as a correspondent on mtv but
while she may have made a splash she
wasn't in it for the long haul instead
stoltz ultimately pursued a career in
banking and in 2018 bank of america
tapped her as the head of prime
brokerage sales on twitter stoltz was
quoted as describing her employer as
diverse and welcoming it promotes an
lgbt inclusive culture that makes me
feel extremely proud to be who i am
stoltz also published a book in 2014
called unfriending my ex and other
things i'll never do exploring social
media driven culture and her own
relationship history in a reddit ama she
added as for unfriending i almost think
it's a compliment from an ex probably
too painful for your ex to look at your
feet all the time if she misses you it's
kind of become like the world's on one
big reality show or all contestants
trying to compete
whitney thompson forester won america's
next top model cycle 10 and while she
found success as a plus size model the
industry couldn't handle her ambition in
line with her own way of eating she went
on to open a vegan restaurant craft 850
in panama city beach florida you know
you can only model for
saks fifth avenue and jcpenney so many
times before you get kind of tired of it
honestly thompson forester also uses her
platform to stand up against toxic diet
culture she blogged you have to realize
that we have a multi-billion dollar diet
industry who only makes money if they
can convince you that you need to lose
weight there's a reason that no one
loses weight and keeps it off the former
model has also been open about her
pregnancy journey and the pushback that
she initially received writing when i
first announced that i was going to have
a vegan pregnancy and raise a vegan baby
i was met with some negativity with
guidance from her doctor thompson
forrester experienced a healthy
pregnancy and now shares the advice with
her fans and curious readers on social
media
kathy ireland was another original
member of the iconic supermodel group of
the 90s she landed the cover of sports
illustrated three times beginning in the
late 80s and early 90s and made 10 other
appearances in the magazine she was even
featured once while she was pregnant you
do kind of have to flirt with a camera
but when it was time for her to shift
away from modeling ireland went on to
launch a clothing line that was featured
at kmart it was so successful it quickly
blew up into an empire of home goods
called kathy ireland worldwide by 2012
forbes claimed she was more successful
than martha stewart this entrepreneurial
spirit has proven to be the winning
ticket for ireland and she now sells
everything from thermoses to rugs in
2019 the daily mail estimated her
business earnings to hit somewhere
around the two billion dollars mark and
based on her website it seems that
ireland has created an entire branded
universe and the payoff has been huge
but the former model has never leveraged
her fame to earn loyal customers she
even noted that in the early days she
didn't do in-person launches because too
many people came to meet the model not
the mogul as she told forbes what
happens is the store gets cluttered with
guys who are there with 500 year old
copies of sports illustrated how does
that help a busy mom these people are
just in her way clearly ireland's focus
is on the future and building her empire
she may not be about busting out her
early swimsuit picks but when you look
like this now who needs that old
magazine cover anyway
og beauty claudia schiffer helped launch
the supermodel phenomenon as she
recalled to vogue the supermodel was a
creation of the late 80s and 90s we were
diverse in looks and nationalities but
became a force together we enjoyed a
fame that stretched way beyond fashion
and across the globe and we became known
by name my goal was never too far away
that i could never reach it while it
made shifter a global sensation it
wasn't always easy living in the
spotlight she added being a supermodel
was like being a rock star i even had a
guard to protect my belongings backstage
as my underwear was constantly getting
stolen but decades later schiffer is
focusing her talents on glassware with a
nature-inspired collaboration featuring
wall pieces vases and stands the model
also launched a clothing line with
realization par noting on the designer's
website the 90s is the decade everyone
is talking about at the moment so we
took inspiration from original 90s
pieces in my archive wardrobe
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