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Amber Valletta Biography

Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of sixteen American Vogue covers at the age of eighteen. During the 1990s, Valletta reached the status of supermodel, working as the face of Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Gucci and Versace, and signing multimillion-dollar cosmetics contracts with Calvin Klein and Elizabeth Arden. From 1995 to 1996, Valletta and her friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow hosted the MTV show, House of Style.

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I am super passionate about my new business because it has the potential to disrupt the fashion industry in a positive way. Master & Muse is providing a place to buy better. There are many big issues in producing fashion today, and the consumer doesn't fully understand the problems at hand. That is where we come in. We are providing awareness, information, and great fashion.

Fashion, Hands, Information, Issues, Today

My agent, Didier Fernandez - who's been my agent since I was 18 - has definitely been a mentor and a protector and a trusted friend.

Agent, Definitely, Mentor, Protector, Trusted

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

Mother, Powerful, Sexy, Smart, Strong, Wives

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

Girl, Heart, Kid, Kids

I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine - at least cutting back on caffeine. I exercise and get outside to play. I reconnect with my spiritual practice, which is daily meditation and prayer. Most importantly, I reconnect with my family and friends. If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

Running, Spiritual, Prayer, Practice, Exercise

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

Accessible, Clothes, Interested, Making, Not Interested

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Aging, Dying, Gifts, Honor, Loved, Ones

I feel like I've gotten whatever was meant to come to me and I feel really blessed.

Blessed, Come, Gotten, Like, Meant

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

Brain, Fast, Intelligent, Mean, Working

After the first summer modeling, I came home with almost as much money as my mom made in a year - after being away for about two months. I just decided to give it a shot, and if it didn't work, I was going to go to college.

Home, Mom, Money, Months, Summer

My first really big job was an advertorial for Italian Vogue. I cried on set because I didn't know what to do. That was two weeks after being in Milan for the very first time. I think I had one or two test shoots there.

Italian, Milan, Shoots, Think, Thinking, Week

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

10000, Bed, Days, Gotten

Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

Art, Challenging, Looking, Playing, Son, Sports

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

Hands, Life, Mom, Proud, Stop, Thinking

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Believe, Hurt, Hurts, Like, Make, Trends

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Earth, Face, Fall, Wish

If I hadn't become a model I thought of doing many things. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point, but I was a little kid. I wanted to be a social worker.

Archaeologist, Kids, Little Kid, Point, Social Worker, Worker

I cut my hair short and it basically changed everything overnight. I was about 18 when I cut my hair off - the little pixie haircut. Nobody had short hair at the time. Literally overnight everything changed. I worked with Steven Meisel within a month and a half and I booked every show. Then I got a Vogue cover - my first Vogue - and that came out a few months later.

Changed, Cutting, Nobody, Short Hair, Worked

I don't even know what would have happened to me had I not become a model. I don't know if I would have gotten out of Oklahoma. I was so young when things started happening for me and I realized I could make a living.

Become, Gotten, I Realized, Living, Model, Oklahoma

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Body, Change, Heart, Meet, Mind

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