![]() So the beautiful vegetarian is saying good-bye to her flat-as-a-board tummy, for a little while anyway. Two years later, the couple divorced.Īmber finally ended up meeting renowned Olympic volleyball player Christian McCaw on a chance encounter and is currently pregnant with their child. Amber was also married to Hervé Le Bihan, whom she met on a Calvin Klein photo shoot in 1994. Unfortunately, their relationship didn't last (he's currently dating Gisele Bundchen). On the personal front, Amber dated Leonardo DiCaprio, as did the majority of models in the free world. In 1995, she organized a charity called Supermodels Stepping Out Against Hunger, a fashion show that took place in her hometown to benefit the Tulsa Community Food Bank. She co-hosted MTV's House of Style with best friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow and she even became the face of Elizabeth Arden.Īlthough she didn't end up becoming the sociologist she wanted to be, Amber does use her position as a celebrity to support various charity events. Photographers and magazines alike couldn't get Amber's face pasted on billboards and magazine covers fast enough.īig names such as Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts, Nick Knight, Paolo Roversi, Irvin Penn, Mario Sorrenti and Peter Lindbergh were all scurrying to Amber for her photogenic face and svelte body.Īmber has since appeared in numerous prestigious advertising campaigns such as Versace, Calvin Klein's Escape, DKNY, Prada, Valentino, Jil Sander, Gucci and Chanel. Not too long after that, Amber, like most models began residing in Paris.Īmber immediately became a modeling sensation, having picked up where fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer had left off. Soon after that, Amber got her first big break the cover shoot for French Elle magazine by Hans Feurer. ![]() Knowing that her little girl's beauty stood out among the rest, her mother enrolled her in a modeling school at 15 years old.Ī local agency soon sent the now 5'9" brunette to Milan where her first shoot was posing for Italian Vogue. But her life took a different, albeit blessed, turn and she ended up in a very different career. Growing up, Amber wanted initially to become a sociologist and work in the social scope. Her parents soon moved from Tucson to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Amber was raised. Born on February 9th 1974, Amber Valletta, despite her exotic name, is American, having been born in Tucson, Arizona. ![]()
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