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Amber Valletta Profile |
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Birth Date: February 9, 1974
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Birth Place: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Birth Name: Amber Valletta
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Born on February 9th 1974, Amber Valletta, despite her
exotic name, is American, having been born in Tucson,
Arizona. Her parents soon moved from Tucson to Tulsa,
Oklahoma, where Amber was raised.
Growing up, Amber wanted initially to become a sociologist
and work in the social scope. But her life took a different,
albeit blessed, turn and she ended up in a very different
career. Knowing that her little girl's beauty stood out
among the rest, her mother enrolled her in a modeling school
at 15 years old.
A local agency soon sent the now 5'9" brunette to Milan
where her first shoot was posing for Italian Vogue. Soon
after that, Amber got her first big break; the cover shoot
for French Elle magazine by Hans Feurer. Not too long after
that, Amber, like most models began residing in Paris.
Amber immediately became a modeling sensation, having picked
up where fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford and Claudia
Schiffer had left off. Photographers and magazines alike
couldn't get Amber's face pasted on billboards and magazine
covers fast enough.
Big names such as Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, Bruce
Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts, Nick Knight, Paolo
Roversi, Irvin Penn, Mario Sorrenti and Peter Lindbergh were
all scurrying to Amber for her photogenic face and svelte
body.
Amber has since appeared in numerous prestigious advertising
campaigns such as Versace, Calvin Klein's Escape, DKNY,
Prada, Valentino, Jil Sander, Gucci and Chanel. She
co-hosted MTV's House of Style with best friend and fellow
model Shalom Harlow and she even became the face of
Elizabeth Arden.
Although she didn't end up becoming the sociologist she
wanted to be, Amber does use her position as a celebrity to
support various charity events. In 1995, she organized a
charity called Supermodels Stepping Out Against Hunger, a
fashion show that took place in her hometown to benefit the
Tulsa Community Food Bank.
On the personal front, Amber dated Leonardo DiCaprio, as did
the majority of models in the free world. Unfortunately,
their relationship didn't last (he's currently dating Gisele
Bundchen). Amber was also married to Hervé Le Bihan, whom
she met on a Calvin Klein photo shoot in 1994. Two years
later, the couple divorced.
Amber finally ended up meeting renowned Olympic volleyball
player Christian McCaw on a chance encounter and is
currently pregnant with their child. So the beautiful
vegetarian is saying good-bye to her flat-as-a-board tummy,
for a little while anyway.
Over the summer, Amber appeared in What Lies Beneath, which
starred Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, and also
co-starred in an independent film entitled Drop Back Ten.
Although she's currently on hiatus anticipating the birth of
her soon-to-be bouncing baby, Amber will be on magazine
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Other
Information |
Net worth 4 million dollars. [1999]
Net Worth of 8.8 million dollars. [1998]
Is a vegetarian.
Got her start when her mother enrolled her in modeling
school at the age of 15.
Has three half-sisters and two half-brothers.
Met ex-husband Herve LeBihan at a Calvin Klein photo shoot
in 1994.
First child, Auden, born at the end of October 2000 in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Attended Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa Oklahoma.
Measurements: 34B-23-35 (source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Dress size: 4; shoe size: 8 1/2.
Appeared dressed as Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale in a
Grey Gardens (1975)-themed photo shoot in the May 1999 issue
of Vogue Italia, photographed by Steven Meisel.
Her husband, Christian McCaw, is a former USA Men's
volleyball national player and played at 2000 Sydney
Olympics. |
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