Fashion insiders say parents can help make or break a model’s career. Here, six supermodels and the parents who influenced them.
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Kate Moss’ mother, Linda, has received several offers from modeling agencies herself.
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Tyra Banks’ mother, Carolyn, worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California. In 2005, she was the first guest on her daughter’s television talk show.
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When Gisele Bündchen was 13, her mother, Vania, sent the aspiring volleyball player to Dilson Stein modeling school in Horizontina, Brazil. Five years later, Gisele hit the cover of Vogue.
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Supermodel Heidi Klum is often spotted with her mother Erna Klum, who was a hairdresser (dad was a cosmetics company executive).
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Niki Taylor’s career began at age 14, when her mother, Barbara, sent photographs to local modeling agencies.
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“The best thing about my mother is that she was my mother, never my girlfriend,” Molly Sims told Self magazine about her mom, Dottie. “She’d tell me when I did something wrong, and I trusted her with everything. Good or bad, she stood by me.”
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