Background:

American model and actress Stephanie Seymour is perhaps most recognized for her long term association with Victoria's Secret. She has also appeared in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, Playboy, Elle, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Self and has worked with many noted designers and photographers, including Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon and Gilles Bensimon. On the acting front, one of People magazine's “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” in 1994 and  Playboy's “100 Sexiest Stars of the Century” in 1998, the brunette beauty played Helen Frankenthaler in the film “Pollock” (2000) and guest starred as Sara Lindstrom in an episode of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (2002).  

Seymour started dating John Casablancas, the head of Elite Model Management, when she was 16 years old. At the time, Casablancas was still married to model Jeanette Christjansen. The couple lived together until Seymour broke off the relationship. Following a short lived marriage to Tommy Andrews during 1989-1990, Seymour began a new relationship with singer Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses in the mid 1991. She appeared in the band's music videos for “Don't Cry” and “November Rain.” They split up in February 1993 after Rose accused Seymour of being unfaithful. Six months later, Rose sued her for assaulting him during a 1992 Christmas party, for mental and emotional abuse, and for withholding $100,000 worth of jewelry. He also claimed that they were engaged. Successively, Seymour countersued Rose for assaulting her and denied they were ever engaged. Following her break up with Rose, Seymour initiated an affair with affluent industrialist, businessman and entrepreneur Peter Brant, who was married and the father of five children. They married in July 1995. Seymour and Brant have three children (two sons and a daughter). She also has an older son with former husband Tommy Andrews.


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Childhood and Family:

Stephanie Michelle Seymour was born on July 23, 1968, in San Diego, California. She is the middle child of a California real estate developer father and a hairstylist mother. She began modeling when she was a teenager.

Stephanie was married to guitarist Tommy Andrews from 1989 until they divorced in 1990. The marriage produced one son, Dylan Thomas Andrews. In December 1993, she gave birth to her second son, Peter Brant, Jr., who was fathered by then boyfriend billionaire Peter Brant. The couple married later on July 14, 1995 in Paris, France. She gave birth to the couple's second son, Harry Brant, in 1997 and to their their third child and first daughter, Lilly Margaret, on October 28, 2004. After almost 14 years of marriage, Stephanie filed for divorce from Brant in March 2009. The couple have since reconciled.


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Career:

At age 14, Stephanie Seymour began modeling for newspapers and department stores in her local of San Diego, CA. In the following year, she entered the Elite Look of the Year Contest. Although lost, Seymour did win the attention of as well as the heart of Elite's head, John Casablancas. She subsequently moved to New York to work for him at Elite as a model.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Seymour appeared in print ads for Jones New York, Hirshleifer's,   Almay Make-Up,  Almay, Loreal and Versache, among others. She also appeared in the  Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in 1988, 1989 and 1991. However, she did not experience a huge break until she began a long partnership with Victoria's Secret. She appeared in Victoria's Secret Catalog from 1992 to 2000.  Seymour also posed for Playboy in March 1991 and again in February 1993.

From 1995 to 1999, Seymour continued to appear in print ads for clients such as Loreal, Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren,  Paciotti Shoes, Chanel, Versace Jeans and Louis Vuitton as well as in a television commercials for Diet Coke. In 1998, she published a book, “Stephanie Seymour's Beauty Secret's For Dummies.” She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the “Modern Muses.”

Entering the new millennium, appeared in print ads for Victoria Secrets' “Desire” model bra. The same year, she was ranked No. 91 on the North American FHM's list of “100 Sexiest Women of 2000.” It was also in 2000 that Seymour made her feature film acting debut on the biopic “Pollock,” starring Ed Harris as the American painter Jackson Pollock. There she played the role of Helen Frankenthaler. She followed it up with a guest stint as Sara Lindstrom in an episode of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” called “Crazy” (2002).

In 2006, Seymour appeared in a campaign for Gap with her children. The same year, she also did print ads for Marc Jacob. Seymour was featured on Salvatore Ferragamo's creative campaign for his fall/winter 2007/2008 collection, along with Claudia Schiffer. In 2008, she appeared in print ads for Paris Chantelle Beyond Beauty Bra in 2008. Along with supermodels Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, she appeared in a Mario Testino photo shoot for the Vanity Fair magazine in September 2008.


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