Fashion Models Jessica Stam

Jessica Stam is an international face of modeling. Jessica Stam, along with very few others, has such a strong background in modeling that she is able to don the title of supermodel. It is her work with top-industry moguls like Vogue that makes her the recognizable and bankable talent she has become.

Jessica Stam was born in Kincardine, Ontario, on April 23,1986. Jessica, along with her six brothers, grew up on a Canadian farm. Jessica Stam family was heavily devoted to religion, and Jessica did not stray from that path. She was a member of her church choir and participated in plays for the church's congregation.

By the age of 16, Jessica had hopes of one day becoming a dentist -- modeling was not something she had even considered. Jessica was a 16-year-old working model when she won the Los Angeles Model Look Search in 2002. Her career in fashion models modeling received a boost from this acknowledgment, but she had to wait to be photographed by a well-known photographer before she could become a household name.

That same year, Jessica met Steven Meisel, and his work with her men seeking led to her international recognition. Meisel attained his own status as a prominent photographer by taking photographs of Madonna for the 1992 book Sex.

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