 Born: May 11, 1978
Place: Point Audemar, Normandy,
France
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Discovered in 1994 when she was
only 15, curvy Laetitia
Casta, who has posed for a number of
major magazines and ad campaigns, is probably
most famous to men around the globe for her work
in Victoria's Secret catalogs. Why do
they especially like her? In simplest, most
honest terms, she has a big rack,
which is something of a novelty in the fashion
industry. Take that away from her, and there's
not too much to distinguish her from any other
human clothes hanger. With the chest, though, she
becomes more than the sum of her ample parts, for
suddenly the world becomes willing and even
anxious to take stock of her other, less tangible
assets that it would otherwise have ignored. And in fact it's these other
assets -- not her chest -- that more deeply
separate Laetitia from the rest of her
cookie-cutter kind; after all, Tyra Banks has a
pretty good-sized rack now as well. But where
women like Tyra, Claudia, Kate, Stephanie,
Gisele, and the rest all have a forbiddingly
jaded, manufactured, and sometimes even
Frankensteinish look to them (what with all the
nips, tucks, lifts, injections, and vomiting
between meals), Laetitia's demeanor of playful
innocence and naturally
voluptuous curves seem
refreshingly unspoiled and down-to-earth. Most
people would never imagine they could ever
actually meet a runway model in real life;
Laetitia, on the other hand, might be someone in
their third period class. She's the mythical
"girl next-door" once championed by Playboy,
the beautiful woman whose approachability gives
hope to drooling guys next-door the world over.
Sure, the "clothes
by Vogue, body by
Penthouse" thing she has going
already sets her apart from most models, but with
all the silicone competition out there, it's her
seeming "still one of us" availability
that in the end raises her up into a category of
her own, and will probably be her more enduring
legacy to the industry.
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