Marisa Miller Biography
Born August 6, 1978, in Santa Cruz, California, this sultry blonde supermodel is most beloved by her fans as a Sports Illustrated model, although her pretty face and sensational body have appeared on many a magazine cover and spread, and she’s also a fairly well-known (and appreciated) Victoria Secret catalog model.
Marisa Miller grew up in Santa Cruz and got very involved in athletics as a child and teenager. In fact, she was a high-school star volleyball player, and has carried a love and passion for surfing since she was a child. She first made it into the modeling limelight with an appearance in Perfect 10 magazine in 1998, at the age of twenty, after coming in third in the magazine’s first-ever (and now annual) model search. The winner was model Ashley Degenford, and model Monica Hansen was the runner-up.
After the contest and her breakthrough appearance on Perfect 10, Miller was featured in a number of follow-up issues, including the mag’s covers for winter 1998, August/September 1999, and fall 2004. Perfect 10, created by Edward Rasen, is no fashion magazine—in fact, it mostly showcases “all natural” (i.e., free of cosmetic surgery) topless and nude women with less makeup than you’d find in other likeminded magazines, like Hugh Hefner’s Playboy; although many aspiring models have become Playboy Playmates or Penthouse Pets after working for Perfect 10.
However, in Miller’s case, her initial work with Perfect 10 allowed her to move out of nude modeling into the coveted mainstream modeling world after she was discovered by modeling photographer Mario Testino who watched her surfing on Manhattan Beach in 2001. (Supermodel and actress Rebecca Romijn was actually discovered in a similar manner.) Miller was soon posing for modeling giants like Victoria’s Secret as well as Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit editions. In fact, Miller appeared in six SI swimsuit editions: in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Besides Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated, Miller went on to appear in such major magazines as Vogue, Glamour, Shape, and Fitness, and also modeled for Tommy Hilfiger as well as J. Crew and Nordstrom. The model attempted to turn actress when she appeared as a judge in 2004 on the short-lived reality series Manhunt: The Search for America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model.
In mid-September of 2005, Miller participated in the New York Fashion for Relief benefit show to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina, along with Beyoncé Knowles, Naomi Campbell, Nicole Richie, Janice Dickinson, Kelly Osbourne, Veronica Webb, Rachel Hunter, Alexandra Richards, Angie Everhart, Wyclef Jean, and Irina Pantaeva. Many celebrities, including famed musician couple Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani, attended the benefit. The model married Griffin Guess, an Encore Hollywood director, on April 15, 2006.
On November 26, 2007, Marisa made a special guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother with her fellow Victoria's Secret supermodels Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Selita Ebanks, Miranda Kerr, and Heidi Klum. The swell in publicity resulting from her 2008 work served to land Miller in the number one spot on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" rankings for 2008, beating out list regulars such as Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, and Eva Longoria-Parker. With a high profile campaign alerting the public to Marisa’s appearance on the cover of S.I. 2008, the David Letterman show featured the unveiling of the 40 foot banner near Times Square, New York on February 11th 2008. This was followed by an appearance of the model on his show the following night.
With her love of all things sport, including surfing, volleyball, boxing and football Marisa has commented that she would have been a sportscaster had she not made a lucrative career in the world of modeling.
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