Alessandra Ambrosio

Alessandra Ambrosio was born on April 11, 1981 in Erexim, Brazil. She is a famous Brazilian supermodel.

Biography and Career :

Her modeling career started when she decided to take modeling lessons in Brazil. The course led to her participation in Elite's Look of the Year contest in 1996, which eventually led to her contract with Elite Model Management.

Alessandra Ambrosio was part of the deluge of Brazilian models that emerged after Gisele Bi¼ndchen opened the floodgates. One of the star models of that group, of which fellow Victoria's Secret/Guess? Model (and best friend) Ana Beatriz Barros is a member, the 5'10", light brown-haired Ambrosio accumulated quite a career in the late 1990's into the next century. Ambrosio was born in Erechim, Brazil, a small town in the south

. As an early teen, she enrolled in a modeling class and subsequently was entered in the Elite modeling agency's 1996 Look of the Year competition. Though she did not win, she was offered an Elite contract one year after.

Her first modeling job was the cover of the Brazilian Marie Claire, and Ambrosio followed with other editorial work, but it was not long after that the Marcianos at Guess signed Ambrosio for their fall Millennium campaign in 2000. Her lucrative print career began with being a Guess? Girl and continued with deals with Revlon and Victoria's Secret. Ambrosio walked the VS runway for the first time in 2000 and continued to be a fixture in subsequent shows. Ambrosio was also picked to be the spokesmodel for the 2004 Pink line by Victoria's Secret.

As for fashion shows, Alessandra has walked the catwalks for designers such as Laura Biagiotti, Christian Lacroix, Byblos, Fendi, Issey Miyake, Kenzo, Christian Dior, Nicole Miller, and Oscar de la Renta, among others. Guess? wasn't the only company to see Alessandra's beauty. She also has contracts with Revlon cosmetics, Gap (as of late), and is set to appear in advertisements for Calvin Klein eyewear and Giorgio Armani. Those who caught the Victoria's Secret fashion show in Cannes on the Internet may have noticed Alessandra in the show, among a cast of the lingerie line's staples, Tyra Banks and Stephanie Seymour.

While the Brazilian beauty was once an Elite girl, she has switched agencies and is now represented by Marilyn Gaultier. Although her modeling career is on the rise, Alessandra plans to pursue a University degree. When she's not modeling, she spends her time with her model/club promoter boyfriend of two and a half years, Jayson Lee (although she has been romantically linked to fellow model Marcelo Boldrini). She enjoys sandboarding and lounging on the beach listening to Brazilian music.

Her favorite place in the world still remains her tiny hometown, and having traveled the world has not convinced her otherwise. When not at her New York apartment or busy building a house in her native Brazil, Alessandra is leaving her mark around the world with International magazine covers, ad campaigns and big league designer fashion shows.

In a country that seems to breed beautiful women, there must be something in the Brazilian water. The most popular supermodel to come out of the South American country is Gisele Bundchen, but the long-legged beauty better watch her back with Alessandra Ambrosio well on her way.

Trivia :

- She has one sister.
- She had cosmetic surgery to get her ears pinned back, and had complications from the surgery for the two years following.
- Height: 5'10"/178 cm
- She entered the Elite Model Look contest and won in Brazil.

Keeley Hazell

Keeley Rebecca Hazell was destined to be a star. Born on the 18th of August of 1986 in Lewisham, England, Keeley is gifted with the look and the body that cameras love. It doesn’t hurt that she has been gifted with an amazing personality that attracts both men and women. She exudes a positive vibe, an almost visible glow around her that people can’t resist.

She may be the simple girl-next-door type, born and raised in suburbia but the girl has big dreams. And we all know that big dreams fueled by passion can take people to wondrous heights. Keeley Hazell may be every man’s fantasy at the moment, but just two years ago she was practically an unknown, working as a hairdresser after quitting school at the age of 16.

At the age of 17, Keeley Hazell decided to join The Daily Star’s contest “Search for a Beach Babe” and won. By then she was already nursing bigger dreams, setting her sights on fashion modeling. Keeley decided to go to college at Lewisham College to study fashion. At 5’6” and short by international fashion standards, it was clear that it would take more than a college education to land her gigs in the fashion industry. When she turned 18, friends persuaded her to join The Sun’s Page 3 Idol. She was hesitant at first but decided that the Page 3 contest was going to open many doors for her and was an opportunity too hard to pass up. Keeley Hazell promptly submitted sexy photos taken by her boyfriend to The Sun and in December of 2004, she was chosen as the Page 3 idol of the weekly newspaper. True enough, more than the L10,000 worth of clothes and the one-year exclusive contract with The Sun, the contest gave Keeley numerous rewards. With a modeling career and now projects for movies, the young woman, raised in Grove Park, has really gone far.

Keeley who admits to being dyslexic, did well in English and Math in high school, but over-all she was not exactly excelling in her Academics. She was often truant and spent most of her time with friends. She says puberty was a “confusing” time and the separation of her parents when she was 13 may have compounded her confusion. She admits to being a naughty and handful teenager but the challenges she faced could only have made the woman more grounded, and more focused.

Lingerie

The term ‘lingerie’ has been derived from old French ‘linge’, which means linen. Though lingerie has been in use since B.C, the term ‘lingerie’ was not extensively used to refer to the underclothing until the late 1850’s. It is interesting to note that even the mention of lingerie was considered scandalous in ancient times. Lingerie has a great contribution in defining for women what it means to look beautiful and sensuous. The rich and elaborate history of lingerie traces its development from being painful and boyish to evolving into being practical and feminine. Read the article to know the eventful history of lingerie.

Interesting & Amazing Information On Origin & Background Of Lingerie
While it is not possible to trace the exact roots of lingerie, the first record of its use has been collected from Egypt, which dates back to 3000 BC. Several terracotta figurines discovered throughout the ancient Near East suggest that different types of undergarments were worn during those times. Evidence also suggests that lion cloth was also used to make lingerie in ancient Egypt. Many female statues in classical Greece wear a crossed band over their shoulders and across the breast. A band of linen worn by women around the waist and lower torso has been mentioned in the ancient writings of Greece as well.

During the Middle Ages, linen underclothes were worn by nobility to protect their expensive outer dresses from body dirt, as also to provide a layer of warmth. Chemise and later corset were introduced in the 4th & 16th centuries respectively. Chemise was typically worn by women under petticoats. As compared to the ancient dress, modern fashion emerging from Medieval Europe concentrated on tailoring the clothing design according to the body shape. This was the time when women started to wear tight-fitting undergarments, so as to manipulate the shape of their bodies. Corset was extensively used by women in this age.

The beginning of 20th century introduced an alternative to the corset, in the form of bust bodices that supported the bosom as a whole. In 1914, Mary Phelps-Jacobs, an American, patented her lingerie design by the name Caresse-Crosby. The design consisted of two silk handkerchiefs tied to one another with ribbon straps and a seam in the center front. She sold her idea to the Warner’s, which introduced the first sizing with only A, B &C, as late as 1935. In Britain, the junior and medium sizing was used until the 50’s.

All through the 20th century, the development and advancement of manmade fabrics, such as nylon, DuPont’s Lycra,polyester, and Elastane microfibres, brought about changes in the development of lingerie. New fabrics paved way for the fashioning of lightweight, supportive, flexible and seamless lingerie. Estimates show that the lingerie market touched half a million pounds level at the end of the 1990’s. Further advancements in designs and fabrics have been introduced in the new millennia and innovative lingerie designs are establishing their market across the world.

Sonakshi Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha is one star kid to watch out for as she gets ready to make her debut with Salman Khan.

Sonakshi
Sonakshi Sinha was born on 2nd June 1987. Her father is the actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha. Her mother is Poonam Sinha, who runs Shotgun Movies, a production house. She has twin brothers, Luv and Kush.

Titbits
Sonakshi studied fashion designing and even designed the costumes for Mera Dil Leke Deko (2005) which was the first movie her mother produced.

She walked the ramp for the Lakme India Fashion Week in 2008.

Movies
Salman Khan zeroed in on Sonakshi Sinha for Arbaaz Khan’s first production Dabangg. There were rumours that she has walked out of the movie as she felt her role was too flimsy. Currently, the movie is on hold.

Riya Sen

Riya Sen Biography
Riya Sen ( Bengali : রিয়া সেন; Hindi : रिया सेन, (born Riya Dev Varma on 24 January 1981) is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen , mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen , began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget sex comedy directed by N. Chandra . Some of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy 's musical film , Jhankaar Beats (2001) in Hinglish , Shaadi No. 1 (2005) Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005).


Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak 's music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has appeared in music videos , television commercials , fashion shows , and on magazine covers .she has been a heart throbbing sensation throughout india and is known for her gorgeuos smile. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness music video with the aim of dispelling popular myths about the disease. She also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care. Riya has faced controversies such as a MMS clip with actor Ashmit Patel , her semi-nude photograph on photographer Dabboo Ratnani 's annual calendar and her on-screen kisses in a conservative Indian film industry.



Personal life and family

Born on 24 January 1981 in Kolkata , West Bengal , Riya is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen , a former actress, and granddaughter of Suchitra Sen , a legend in Bengali cinema . Before moving to Mumbai , she lived in Kolkata with her parents and sister Raima Sen , also an actress. Her father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura . Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar , whose younger sister Gayatri Devi was the Maharani of Jaipur . Her paternal grandmother Indira was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda . Riya's maternal great-grandfather Adinath Sen was a prominent Kolkata businessman, whose father Dinanath Sen - a relative of former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen - was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. The sisters are credited on-screen under their mother's maiden name, although their official papers carry the surname Dev Varma.


Riya completed her schooling at Loreto House and Rani Birla College, both in Kolkata. Thereafter, she studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology , and she took up jewellery-designing as a hobby. She designs most of the clothes that she wears in films and commercials. Riya is trained in Kathak and is still pursuing it under Vijayshree Chaudhury. She is taking kickboxing lessons and has completed Level I of the 5 levels in belly dancing . Riya entered the film industry through small-time modeling assignments, commuting between Mumbai and Kolkata and traveling by public transport during the her early career. After breaking into the film industry, she shifted from her mother's house in Ballygunge Circular Road in south Kolkata to Mumbai. There she moved into the family house in Juhu , where she stays with her sister. During her stay in Mumbai, the media romantically linked her to model and actor John Abraham . In the Bollywood press, she was, in 2008, speculatively linked to the novelist Salman Rushdie , although both stated that they were simply good friends.


Riya has suffered a number of untimely incidents. During the filming of Shaadi No. 1 in France, she was knocked unconscious after being accidentally run over by a stuntman 's motorbike, but she was not seriously injured. Shortly before the release of Silsiilay, in which she starred opposite her boyfriend Ashmit Patel, a 90-second video clip was circulated through Multimedia Messaging Services and the internet, showing the pair in compromising situations. This was one of a number of controversies that erupted when celebrities were caught in similar situations using cameraphones . Following this incident, the couple split up, although Riya denied that she was the girl in the MMS clip. One commentator claimed that the footage was an orchestrated publicity stunt. In 2007, she underwent a brief detoxification session in Bangkok for addiction to chocolate.

Jennifer Ellison

Date of Birth
30 May 1983, Liverpool, England, UK

Birth Name
Jennifer Lesley Ellison

Nickname
Jen

Height
5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Spouse
Rob Tickle (10 October 2009 - present) 1 child

Trivia
She won the National Ballet & Modern Dance Championships in 1996 & 1997.

Supports Everton Football Club.

Voted sexiest blonde in the world by readers of Nuts magazine (2004).

Measurements: 32DD-25-32.

She won the first series of UK reality series "Hell's Kitchen" (2004).

She has a sister, Gemma (born 1991).

Gave birth to her son Bobby, fathered by husband Rob Tickle, at 9.50pm, weighing in at 9lbs (4 February 2010).

Returned to work five months after giving birth to her son Bobby in order to perform in a UK tour of "Calendar Girls".


Personal Quotes
I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I know people are always going to talk about someone who goes from a soap into music, but I have to follow my heart. [Brookside's] Phil Redmond told me not to do it. He said you never know how long you'll get with a pop career but it's just something I have to try.


Where Are They Now
(November 2006) Starring in the musical 'Chicago'

(January 2008) Starring in Boeing Boeing at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End

(January 2009) Performing the Vagina Monologues on UK theatrical tour including Woking, Coventry and Liverpool

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty
We all love something or someone and attraction can be anything. Such as any objects that we can see and feel/touch like a picture or photo or animals but more so to human beings. I simply can't help myself but keep looking at this young, pretty, gorgeous lady from India who has started as a model and now a successful actress. Her name is "Shilpa Shetty". She has a look and yes!, she has nice figure on her body appearance. Just look all her photos you will know what I mean. I can't help myself that I need to write something about her. You can read all about her here.

Who Is Shilpa Shetty?
Introducing Shilpa Shetty, who is an award winning Indians films actress and Indian top model. She was born in a strict and traditional close-knit family that hails from the matrineal Bunt community of Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka, although she was born in Mangalore. Shilpa is the eldest daughter of Surendra and Sunanda Shetty, manufacturers of tamper-proof caps for the pharmaceutical industry and her natives language is Tulu.

Birth Name: Shilpa Shetty

Nickname: Manya, Honeybunch or "Babucha", Silly Pooh

Date of Birth: June 8, 1975

Place of Birth: Mangalore, India

Height: 5'10' (1.78m)



She lives in With Her parents
She lives most her life with her parents who lives in 'Mumbai' together with her younger sister 'Shamita Shetty' who is a budding Bollywood Actress. Both of them worked together once in the film "Fareb" (2005) During her teen, she went to St. Anthony Girls' High School, located in Chembur and after that attended Podar College. Interestingly, she is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She is very much involved into sports and was appointed as a captain of the volleyball team in school and take note this guy, she had earned a black belt in 'Karate'. I don't think you wanna to mess around with her. At the moment she hold as a dance sport expert and she is good at it.

Trivia
Shilpa and her younger sister Shamita are the first sisters to appear in a film together in the history of Bollywood.
Shilpa is considered to have the best body in Bollywood.
Aids activist and PETA supporter.
Beside her ntive language Tulu, she speaks English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu.
Received critical acclaim and nominations for her performances in movies like "Baazigar" (1993), "Dhadkan" (2000), "Rishtey" (2002) and "Phir Mlenge"(2004).
Won "Best Supporting Actress" for "Pardesi Babu" (1998) at the 1999 Zee Gold Bollywood Awards.
In 2000, she sue Stardust India magazine because the magazine produced a report about her on-off relationship with Akhsay Kumar. According to her opinion, the article made her name disgraced and she lost some offers on films. She won the lawsuit.
Sahara One crowned her the "2004 DIVA of the year".
Her movie "Phir Milenge (2004) was viewed by the United Nations who appreciated the movie for its support of AIDs awareness.
She donated all the money she made from her movie "Phir Milenge"(2004) to an AIDS Charity.
In January 2007, her appearance on "Celebrity Big Brother" (2001) caused a huge racism and bullying row. As several housemates didn't approve presence, they made fun of her accent, cooking and her native country. Following these incidents, British broadcasting network Channel 4 received over a record breaking 40,000 complaints and the controversy developed to a diplomatic crisis between the UK and India. Even Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown, while visiting India, condemned these acts of unfairness and intolerance.
After she became the winner of "Celebrity Big Brother" (2001) series 5, Shilpa attended a reception at the House of Commons by invitation of Keith Vaz (Member of Parliment) to meet with then-British Prime Minister, Tony Blair in February 2007. She was also invited to meet with Queen Elizabeth II at Marlborough House in London in March 2007.