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Beverly Peele

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    Beverly Peele View off-the-runway photos
    Nationality
    American
    Birth Date
    1975
    Status
    Established, Retired (mostly)
    Known for
    Body, Lips
    Friends
    Tyra Banks, Iman, Naomi Campbell
    Model Turned
    Actress (Sweet Friggin‘ Daisies, 2002)

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    Beverly Peele's Career Highlights

    1975
    Born in Los Angeles, California
    1987
    Begins modeling
    FEB 1989
    Lands on her first major cover for Mademoiselle
    APR 1989
    Appears on her second cover of Mademoiselle for the year
    MAY 1989
    Appears on cover of Seventeen
    1989
    Photographed by Bruce Weber for Versace ad campaign
    FEB 1991
    Photographed by Gilles Bensimon for Elle
    1991
    Appears in Vogue editorial with Aretha Franklin and LL Cool J
    OCT 1991
    Walks the spring Chanel and Comme des Garçons shows in Paris
    NOV 1991
    Appears on the cover Elle
    JAN 1992
    Appears on the cover of British Vogue alongside other top models
    1992
    Walks the Versace show in Milan alongside Cindy, Linda, Claudia, Naomi, and Helena Video»
    1992
    Featured in several Vogue editorials
    1992
    Featured in George Michael’s “Too Funky” music video alongside Linda, Tyra, and Nadja Video»
    1992
    Photographed by Gilles Bensimon for Elle alongside Naomi Campbell
    APR 1993
    Appears on cover of German Vogue alongside other top models
    1993
    Featured in Vogue with Naomi Campbell on their short hair cuts
    1994
    Stars in Heavy D’s “Nuttin’ But Love” music video Video»
    MAR 1994
    Photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Harper’s Bazaar
    APR 1994
    Photographed by Steven Meisel for cover of Italian Vogue
    APR 1994
    Photographed by Steven Meisel for Vogue
    NOV 1994
    Appears on cover of French Elle
    1995
    Gives birth to daughter, Cairo
    1995
    Retires from modeling to spend time with her daughter
    10 SEP, 1997
    Guest stars on Sister, Sister as herself
    20 MAY, 2002
    Guest stars on Girlfriends as Nicole, a friend of Tracee Ellis Ross
    1 OCT, 2002
    Co-stars with Zooey Deschanel in the film Sweet Friggin’ Daisies
    DEC 2005
    Arrested on claims of allegedly charging furniture, a refrigerator, a washer, a dryer, and other home products on a women’s credit card found in a supermarket
    JAN 2006
    Charged with two counts of grand theft
    17 APR, 2006
    Appears on the The Tyra Banks Show and speaks about the dangers of modeling
    AUG 2006
    Sentenced to three years probation and 300 hours of community service
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