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  • ...3, just before she turned 18, and just after she won Miss Teen [[Vermont]] and then Miss Teen USA. ...sister, who was in the same foster families but stayed with the Wensleys, and has contact with her brother.
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  • ...at 15 to convince unwilling social workers to finance her ballet training and to endure the vicissitudes of show business. ...sports scholarship foundation for foster children and does speaking events and lobbying for foster children's organizations.
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  • '''South African model and journalist''' ...[[adopted]] aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10.
    2 KB (257 words) - 17:32, 28 May 2014
  • ...iana, and adopted at a month's age as the first of four children of Thelma and Isidore Aucoin, in Lafayette. ...e teacher. Years of petty theft to obtain cosmetics stopped when he was 15 and realized that a boy would be killed if caught stealing make-up.
    2 KB (356 words) - 18:46, 28 May 2014
  • ...of Hazzard. He has also taught acting at the University of [[Mississippi]] and helped found the [[Mississippi]] state film commission. [[Category: Fashion, Hairdressing and Modeling; Beauty Queens]]
    2 KB (308 words) - 16:12, 27 May 2014
  • '''French fashion designer, also known as Coco Chanel''' ...ather was a wastrel and a vagabond, her mother died in 1895, and Gabrielle and a sister were then abandoned in an [[orphanage]] until adulthood, while two
    3 KB (363 words) - 20:28, 21 May 2014
  • '''American pilot, journalist, and businesswoman''' ...ht years old), whose mother beat her birth children as well as Jacqueline, and was working when she was eight, so she never had a proper education, teachi
    3 KB (478 words) - 16:08, 27 May 2014
  • '''American beauty queen''' ...l Cole. She is Miss Tennessee and Miss USA 2000. She also works as a model and an elementary school substitute teacher, but her goal is to become a lawyer
    1 KB (133 words) - 20:35, 28 May 2014
  • ...e was eight. His relationship with his mother was never very satisfactory, and his [[reunion]] with his birth sister did not result in a lasting relations After school he went into the retail trade, selling musical instruments and then clothing, but he is now a fashionable body-piercer in Johannesburg.
    2 KB (223 words) - 20:10, 19 May 2014
  • ...a daily slot on television since 1985, and she also has a daily radio slot and has produced a number of fitness videos. She was voted the number one femal She was orphaned at an early age and was fostered or adopted by a family with nine other children. She frequentl
    1 KB (152 words) - 16:15, 19 May 2014
  • ...alifornia]] and she married actor Max Palmer and he had an otherwise happy and privileged childhood. ...seball he became a sports commentator and also models clothing, plays golf and gardens. He is also National Sports Chairman for the US Cystic Fibrosis Fou
    2 KB (278 words) - 16:10, 27 May 2014
  • ...with their main centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. The tradition is centuries old and continues today, although the heyday of the geisha was before World War II. Until recently delicately beautiful and graceful young girls might be sold by their poverty-stricken parents to an
    3 KB (513 words) - 19:38, 16 June 2014
  • ...f yellow fever. She was then raised for several years by her older brother and sister, but married for the first time when she was 14. ...aby daughter, and soon moved to St. Louis, where she worked as a laundress and attended night school.
    3 KB (382 words) - 19:50, 16 June 2014

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