- Nationality
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American
- Birth Date
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February 23, 1965
- Status
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Established,
Retired (mostly)
- Known for
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Body,
Smile
- Agencies
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Elite
- Dated
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Robert De Niro,
Spike Lee
- Friends
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Tyra Banks,
Marisa Miller,
Heidi Klum,
Rachel Hunter,
Liya Kebede,
Zac Posen,
Tim Gunn,
André Leon Talley,
Rachel Roy
- Children
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Leila Rose Robb ,
Molly Blue Robb
- Married
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George E. Robb Jr.
- Model Turned
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TV personality (Tim Gunn‘s Guide to Style),
Activist (National Breast Cancer Coalition),
Actress (Jungle Fever, 1991),
Writer
- Interests
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Rollerblading,
Cooking
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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