FACE FACTS
Name: Jessica Stam
Date of birth: April 23, 1986
Born in: Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
Agencies: IMG
She was discovered when … she was hanging out at her local doughnut joint on her way back from a visit to an amusement park in 2001. Stam then went on to win LA's Model Look Contest the following year.
She has been linked to … Nicole Richie's ex, DJ AM aka Adam Goldstein; she has also previously dated Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis. Friends Michelle Trachtenberg, Tara Subkoff, Leigh Lezark and Mary-Kate Olsen recently helped Stam celebrate her 22nd birthday at Nobu in New York.
You might also have seen her … campaigns for Dior, Bulgari, Giorgio Armani, H&M and Miu Miu and strutting her stuff in the Victoria's Secret runway show, Hermès, Sonia Rykiel, Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld and more.
Other than modelling she is known for … being the girl behind Marc Jacobs' It bag, the Stam bag. She is also one of the world's highest paid models, earning US$1.5 million in 2007, according to a
Forbes magazine survey.
Don't quote me but … "I feel awkward wearing couture when everyone else here is wearing rugby jerseys and jeans."
— Style.com, "A Day in the Life of Jessica Stam", October 4, 2007.
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