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Keys to the Castle

Keys to the Castle

Some of the most amazing castles and chateaux in France that are still lived in today. First up: Chateau de Brissac. Located in the beautiful countryside of France, this place has been dubbed the giant of the Loire Valley. It is home to the Marchioness of Brissac, Larissa, and her family, and it’s also a […]

A Few Exotic Victoria’s Secret Models

A Few Exotic Victoria’s Secret Models

http://youtu.be/Oh6ROu6eC-8

*Tyra Banks
*Selita Ebanks
*Naomi Campbell
*Emanuela de Paula
*Oluchi Onweagba
*Chanel Iman
*Sessilee Lopez
*Noemie Lenoir
*Ajuma Nasenyana
*Arlenis Sosa Peña
*Aminata Niaria
*Jessica White
*Lyndsey Scott

Paula Patton

Paula Patton

She is African and German American or Dutch    Paula’s family lived across the street from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up and she was a fan of films from her earliest years. Her mother, who also appreciated good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Study film at […]

The Human Stain: Wentworth Earl Miller III

The Human Stain: Wentworth Earl Miller III

The American actor is the star of the Television series Prison Break, playing Michael Scofield. He was born to a father of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish and Cherokee ancestry and a mother of Russian, French, Dutch, Lebanese and Syrian descent. Regarding his ethnicity and his experience with racism, he made the comment on an interview: “My […]

Rita Hayworth aka Margarita Carmen Cansino

Rita Hayworth aka Margarita Carmen Cansino

Before                                        and                          After   Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino‘s daughter Margarita trained as a dancer from early childhood. At age 12, mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo’s stage […]

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that […]

Salma Hayek aka Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez

Salma Hayek aka Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez

Is of Spanish and Lebanese descent, and fluent in Arabic, Spanish, Portugese and English. Studied international relations & drama at college in Mexico City. Father was born in Lebanon and came to Mexico to start a small business where he met her mother. Her Lebanese-Mexican father was a rich businessman and her mother was an […]

Flash Dance actress Jennifer Beals

Flash Dance actress Jennifer Beals

She is African-American and Irish Jennifer Sue Beals was born in Chicago on December 19, 1963 as the second child of Jeanne Anderson and Alfred Beals. Her mother, an Irish-Catholic retired elementary schoolteacher, still lives in Chicago. Her African-American father owned a grocery store on the South Side of Chicago where she spent the first […]

Beauty Nina Alu and Iggy Pop

Beauty Nina Alu and Iggy Pop

She is Nigerian and Irish.   Iggy Pop has been dating Ms. Alu for at least 10 years.They are now married.   Nina had originally planned to go into broadcast journalism.   Iggy is a songwriter who met Nina when she was a flight attendant.  

Liu Wen photographed by Caroline Knopf

Liu Wen photographed by Caroline Knopf

Liu Wen  is a Chinese fashion model represented by The Society Management and based in New York City. She is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the first spokes model of East Asian descent for Estée Lauder and the first Asian model to ever make Forbes magazine’s annual highest-paid models list. Liu Wen’s modeling career started at a modeling camp to help improve […]

Model: Jenny Boussaert

Model: Jenny Boussaert

Nationality: American       

Gracie Carvahlo

Gracie Carvahlo

Nationality and Place of birth: Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Meet Gracie Carvalho, the newest Brazilian beauty turning heads and stealing shows all over the world. After debuting at the Rio and São Paulo fall fashion weeks in January of 2008, this 20-year-old newcomer caught the eyes of casting agents, and by the following June she was […]

Model: Israela Avtau

Model: Israela Avtau

Nationality and Place of birth: Israel Ethnicity: Ethiopian, African She won the Iaraeli Top Model competition at 16 years old. Article about Miss Avtau below: www.scribd.com/fullscreen She left Israel to seek a modelling career in New York. Israela signed a multi-million dollar deal with Avon Cosmetics in the US.   She is the highest paid model after Bar […]

Anais Mali

Anais Mali

Nationality:French Place of birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France Ethnicity: Polish / Tchad