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Niki Taylor
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When she was a little girl, Niki Taylor wanted to be a model. When she was 13, she signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida. There she met photographer Jean Renard, who became her manager. She subsequently won a Fresh Faces contest in New York City and a $500,000 modeling contract.
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Niki Taylor is a writer/book reviewer from North Carolina. She teaches about writing book reviews online at http://class.universalclass.com/bookreviews. She ... has a website at http://www.nikianntaylor.com. Her ebook about freelance writing is here.
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Niki Taylor, one of the most successful international models of all time, began her modeling career at the age of 14 and captured the heart of America with her sun-inspired beauty. She has represented a variety of powerful brands in fashion and beauty campaigns around the world and has graced the covers of nearly every major magazine. With over 400 magazine covers worldwide to her credit, she was famously featured in Vogue magazine as a teenager, making her the youngest model to ever appear on their cover. Currently working as a business entrepreneur and designer, Taylor has broadened her professional career while balancing her role as a mother. She recently opened Abbie & Jesse's, her own clothing boutique, and formed "begin Enterprises" along with the "begin Foundation" for the Advancement of Women in Business.
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Some of the brands for which Niki Taylor has modeled are Nokia, Ellen Tracy, Liz Claiborne, L’Oreal, Pantene, Gap, Lee jeans and Victoria’s Secret. Apart from this she has catwalked for fashion houses like Givenchy, Chanel, Chloe and Calvin Klein on the most famous ramps of the world. At one time, she had six simultaneous and enormous billboards in New York City’s Times Square besides the three yearlong billboards for Liz Claiborne.
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Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 5, 1975 to Broward Sheriff's Deputy, Ken Taylor and photographer Barbara Taylor. Raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, she engaged in the arts while in high school by studying dance and singing lessons. By the time she was 13 years old, she aspired to be a model and later signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida, where she met her manager, Jean Renard. At 14 years of age, she began professional modeling and a couple of years later, she founded her own company, Niki Inc. She debuted on the cover of Seventeen magazine and later appeared on covers of Vogue, Allure, ELLE, Marie Claire, Self and Shape. She ... named as one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1991 and soon appeared in the 1997, 1998 and 1999 editions of Sports Unlimited's Swimsuit Issue. She also had done numerous advertisement projects with brands such as Liz Claiborne, Nokia, L'Oreal, Lee Jeans and Pantene.
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Niki Taylor was born on March 5, 1975, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her father, Ken, is a Florida Highway Patrol officer, and her mother, Barbara, is a photographer. Taylor is the second of three sisters; her older sister is named Joelle, and her younger sister, Krissy, was ... a model, but died suddenly in 1995 from ventricular dysplasia. Taylor attended Cooper City High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida. In college, she studied special effects, dance and singing.
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