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Veronica Webb
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Nationality
American
Birthday
February 23, 1965
Born In
Detroit, MI
Known For
Body, Smile
Status
Established, retired (mostly)
Dated
Robert De Niro, Spike Lee
Friends
Tyra Banks
,
Marisa Miller
,
Heidi Klum
,
Rachel Hunter
,
Liya Kebede
,
Zac Posen
, Tim Gunn, André Leon Talley
Married
George E. Robb Jr.
Children
Leila Rose Robb (born ), Molly Blue Robb (born )
Interests
Rollerblading, cooking
Model Turned...
actress, writer, activist, TV personality
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Veronica Webb's Career Highlights
23 FEB, 1965
Born in Detroit, Michigan
1983
Graduates from Detroit’s Waldorf School and moves to New York to study design at Parsons School of Design
1985
Discovered while shopping in Soho
1985
Bruce Weber photographs Webb for his personal work, starting a booking frenzy
MAR 1985
Appears in British
Vogue
editorial
FEB 1986
Featured on her first cover, for French
Elle
1987
Models for Bloomingdale’s catalog
JAN 1989
Appears in
Elle
swimsuit editorial alongside Claudia Schiffer and Famke Janssen, photographed by Gilles Bensimon
FEB 1989
Walks the fall Byblos show in Milan
MAY 1989
Appears on the cover of Italian
Vogue
, photographed by Steven Meisel
SEP 1990
Appears on the cover of French
Marie Claire
NOV 1990
Featured on the cover of
Elle
JAN 1991
Appears in
Details
editorial
JUN 1991
Costars in the Spike Lee film
Jungle Fever
alongside Wesley Snipes and Samuel L. Jackson
1991
Becomes the face of Isaac Mizrahi
1991
Appears in print ads for Nike
1992
Signs an exclusive cosmetics contract with Revlon, becoming the first black model to do so
SEP 1992
Walks the spring Comme des Garçons show in Paris
SEP 1992
Appears in editorials for
Vogue
and
Glamour
OCT 1993
Makes an appearance in the film
For Love or Money
as a model
JAN 1994
Appears on the cover of
i-D
under the headline “Urgent! Special Anti-Racist Issue”
1994
New York
magazine names Webb model of the year
1994
Appears in print ads for Revlon alongside Cindy Crawford
APR 1994
Featured in
Vogue
editorial
OCT 1996
Appears on the cover of
Flare
5 MAR, 1997
Makes an appearance in the television series
Just Shoot Me
as herself
MAY 1997
Featured in
Playboy
DEC 1997
Featured in photographer Thierry Le Gouès’s book
Soul
FEB 1998
Releases the book
Veronica Webb Sight: Adventures in the Big City
MAY 1998
TV Guide
features Webb in an article titled “Worldwide Webb”
SEP 2001
Makes an appearance as herself in the film
Zoolander
2002
Marries George E. Robb Jr.
12 OCT, 2002
Gives birth to daughter Leila Rose Robb
APR 2004
Poses for
Vogue
while pregnant, photographed by Steven Meisel
21 MAY, 2004
Gives birth to daughter Molly Blue Robb
SEP 2005
Walks the “Fashion for Relief” show in New York alongside Nicole Richie and Naomi Campbell
SEP 2007
Becomes the co-host for
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style
7 JUL, 2008
Appears on
The Today Show
with marketing expert Jerri DeVard and Elite’s Neal Hamil to speak about the lack of diversity in fashion
JUL 2008
Appears in the all-black Italian
Vogue
issue, photographed by Steven Meisel
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