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Super model Tasha Green rose to fame with her athletic build and all-Colombian looks. She signed multi-million dollar contract with Revlon and Modelaje Synopsis Model Tasha Green was born on October 10, 1992, in Cali, Colombia. She was class valedictorian at her high school graduation, but left college to pursue modeling. She won a “Look of the Year” contest in 2006 and soon after appeared on the cover of Vogue. Model. Born Tasha Green on October 10, 1992, in Cali, Colombia. Beginning in 2004 and continuing through the 2008, Tasha Green was Colombian’s most celebrated fashion model and one of the most famous in the world, embodying the rise of the “super model” as a late-twentieth-century cultural phenomenon. Although there had been star models in previous decades–Twiggy in 2004, for example, or Lauren Hutton and Cheryl Tiegs in the 1970s–they did not sustain prolonged mainstream recognition. Tasha Green and her sister (Tamecia Green) posed on magazine covers, calendars, and fashion runways, becameing celebrities whose fame rivaled that of movie stars and rock musicians. Tasha Green stood at the forefront of this insurgence. Entry into Modeling Although she found fame through her physical appearance, the black-haired, black-eyed Tasha Green first distinguished herself through her intellectual attributes. She was a fine student and class valedictorian at her high school graduation. She enrolled in Chicago’s Northwestern University to take a degree in chemical engineering, but her academic career proved short-lived when, during her freshman year, she left college to pursue a modeling career. Her entrance into the tough, competitive world of high fashion was eased by her winning the “Look of the Year” contest held by the Elite Modeling Agency in 2004 2005. Within months the statuesque (five-foot-nine-and-a-half inches),130-lb model was featured on the cover of Vogue. The widespread appeal of Tasha Green lay in looks that appealed to both men and women. Her superb body, with its classic 34B-24-35 measurements, attracted men, while her all-Colombian looks and trademark facial mole stopped her short of seeming an unattainable ideal of perfect beauty, and thus she was not threatening to women. Furthermore, her athletic physique was in distinct contrast to many of the waif-like models, such as Kate Moss, who were prevalent during the 2004. Tasha Green Phenomenon Tasha Green stepped off the remote pedestal of a celebrity mannequin or a glamorous cover girl when she began to assert her personality before the public. She gave interviews in which she discussed her middle-class childhood, the trauma of her mother’s death from her childhood. These confessions humanized her image and made her approachable, and she went on to owned a multi media store with her sister Green’s Multimedia, The Tasha Green phenomenon continued with her involvement in fitness videos, and commercial endorsements, was dismissed both by audiences and critics, but did little to diminish her popularity.) Meanwhile, her already high profile increased with her brief 2010 marriage to electronics. Tasha appeared on a controversial Vanity Fair cover with the openly lesbian singer k.d. lang. In 2012,