Fashion, Hairdressing and Modeling; Beauty Queens
Allan, Jani
Allan was adopted aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10. She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, G... [more]
Aucoin, Kevyn
Aucoin was born to Nelda Mae Williams in Louisiana, and adopted at a month's age as the first of four children of Thelma and Isidore Aucoin, in Lafayette. From a very early age he showed... [more]
Baulch, Jamie
Baulch was adopted at six months of age by a white family from a South Wales valley village. He was not an academic child at school but loved athletics, so his parents took him to the Newpo... [more]
Best, James
Best was born Jules Guy in Powderly, Kentucky, to a poor coal mining family with six children. When he was three poverty forced the family to place him in an orphanage, but he was adopted t... [more]
Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
Chanel was illegitimate, one of probably six children, although her parents married in 1885. She later surrounded her early life in romantic inventions, but the facts seem to be that her fa... [more]
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cochran was born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of shoes when she was eigh... [more]
Cole, Lynnette
Cole was adopted aged two from an abusive family, by Larry and Gail Cole. She is Miss Tennessee and Miss USA 2000. She also works as a model and an elementary school substitute teacher, but... [more]
Geisha
Geisha are professional entertainers in Japan, with their main centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. The tradition is centuries old and continues today, although the heyday of the geisha was before W... [more]
Graham, Eddie
Graham was adopted by his aunt and uncle when he was five, after his birth parents died. His sister was adopted by their grandmother. The family were well-to-do dairy farmers near Johannesb... [more]
Kereluk, Cynthia
Kereluk, who was Miss Canada in 1984, is the Canadian counterpart to the British Mr. Motivator (Derrick Evans), with a daily slot on television since 1985, and she also has a daily radio sl... [more]
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