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TV personality Vanessa Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, on the Clark Air Force Base, in the Philippines and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1997 she became Miss Teen South Carolina, and the next year she was Miss Teen USA. Then in 2003 she landed the job of VJ on MTV's popular "Total Request Live." Vanessa has been romantically linked to Nick Lachey and Yankees Shortstop Derek Jeter.
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Vanessa Minnillo & Nick Lachey were in San Juan, Puerto Rico last weekend celebrating their joint birthday bash with Pepa (Salt-n-Pepa) at the relaunch of El San Juan Hotel & Casino. Here are some more bikini photos of Minnillo. By the way, what’s the scoop with these two. Are they even working these days?
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Vanessa Minnillo has fluency in English and gathered passive knowledge of the Filipino languages Kapampangan and Tagalog. Vanessa spent her early years in seven different schools. Apart from formal studies, she took participation in cheerleading and volunteer work for some local charities. She settled into life with her father and stepmother and brother in Charleston, South Carolina. She had always a liking to perform in front of audiences. This helped Vanessa to win over the judges of Miss South Carolina beauty pageant in 1996.
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Now that she's in her mid-20s, Vanessa Minnillo's raw sexual power has matured. Ask anyone who's seen her bikini spread in Stuff magazine, or her cover on American Cheerleader magazine -- she's gone from hot to sizzling.
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Actress Vanessa Minnillo grew up as an army brat, living in Germany, Japan, Florida, Nevada, and California before her family settled in South Carolina. After her parents divorced when she was six, Minnillo lived with her mother and stepfather at the Air Force base in Turkey where he was stationed, before returning to the States when Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait. Thereafter, Minnillo began living with her father and stepmother in South Carolina, where she settled in and began competing in the pageant circuit. She won the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2000, and continued to model and host other pageants.
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Vanessa Minnillo has come far in her short life. She won Miss Teen South Carolina and Miss Teen USA while still in her teens (obviously), then went on to Los Angeles, where she found steady work as an on-air personality with such networks as ESPN and Fox Sports Net, and even landed a guest gig on The Bold and The Beautiful. Between 2003 and 2007, she was a fixture on MTV as a VJ for Total Request Live. Nonetheless, Vanessa Minnillo remains only moderately famous. As former Miss Teen USA, she has admirers and is known in pageant circles, especially since she returned to the circuit as a judge in 2003, and as a host in 2004. Her hosting work on various TV shows has kept her in the spotlight, too, especially on MTV.
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