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Jacquetta Wheeler Profile |
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Birth Date: October 16, 1981
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Birth Place: London, England, UK
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Birth Name: Jacquetta Wheeler
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Height: 6'2"
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Biography |
Jacquetta Wheeler is an English model. Her father, Stuart
Wheeler, worked as an entrepreneur, and mother Tessa was a
photographer.
As a child, Wheeler lived a comfortable, moderately affluent
lifestyle with her family in England. At the age of fifteen,
she was discovered by Italian fashion designer Stephan
Jansen. Jansen asked Wheeler to go to Milan and appear in
his fashion show. Later that year, she was stopped in
England on her way to a salon by noted fashion photographer
Mario Testino.
By the age of 17, Wheeler was on the face of French Vogue
and part of a Gucci advertisement campaign. Although she
continued to go to school at The King's School, Canterbury -
in Luxmoore House, where she was taught by Peter Brodie -
Wheeler would often take off days to shoot for fashion
companies, such as Calvin Klein, Prada, and The Gap.
In 1999, The Face magazine declared her the 'Model of the
Millennium'. Designers have continued to embrace her
androgynous, waif look. In 2002, The Sunday Times named her
one of Britain's highest paid models. Wheeler's list of
clients ranges from Burberry to Versace.
She dated British photographer Alexi Lubomirski. |
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since September 22, 2009