Who Is Niki Taylor?
Nicole Renee Taylor born on March 5,1975 (Age 48) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a highway patrol lieutenant and a photographer. She is an American model and television hostess.
EDUCATION
Niki Taylor was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Copper City High School. She discovered theatre in high school and graduated early with honours in arts.
In her journey throughout, she realised her love for arts was very flourishing and she landed herself in Los Angeles.
PERSONAL LIFE
In 2006 October, Niki Taylor was together with NASCAR driver Burney Lamar after only few dates. They both met at an autograph session held in January. Their wedding took place at the Grande Colonial Hotel in La Jolla, California on December 27,2006.
In the switch of wedding gifts, the couple asked for donations to be sent to Victory Junction Gang Camp which is a camp for chronically ill children in North Carolina. At the age of 19, she gave birth to twin boys.
FAMILY
She has an older sister, Joelle, and a younger sister, Krissy.
CAREER
In 1988 Niki Taylor’s mother sent pictures of then 13-year-old Taylor to local modeling agencies, and Taylor promptly signed for professional representation with Irene Marie Models (1983–2009). Taylor soon began doing catalog work and subsequently won a Fresh Faces modeling competition in New York City, securing a $500,000 modeling contract.
At age 14 Niki Taylor appeared on the cover of the pivotal back-to school issue of the leading teen magazine, Seventeen (August 1989), and she was subsequently featured with then fledgling model Krissy (March 1990). The two were thereafter often booked together for various modeling assignments to positive reviews.
Initially marketed as “Baby Cindy” because of her resemblance to top model Cindy Crawford, Taylor quickly began acquiring high-profile assignments. In 1991 she made her runway debut at Paris Fashion Week—one of the industry’s four major semiannual events—and was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People.”
Niki Taylor subsequently founded her own company, Niki Inc., to manage her career and in 1992 signed for professional representation with IMG Models—one of the world’s top modeling agencies. In the same year, at age 16, Taylor signed a two-year contract as the new face of the cosmetics company L’Oréal, becoming the youngest model to ever secure a multimillion-dollar deal.
Niki Taylor enhanced her international recognition when she appeared on the cover of the 100th-anniversary issue of the leading fashion magazine, Vogue (April 1992), alongside the year’s top models, including Naomi Campbell, Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Yasmeen Ghauri, Elaine Irwin, Karen Mulder, Tatjana Patitz, Claudia Schiffer, and Christy Turlington.
In the same year, at age 17, she was chosen as the new face of CoverGirl, becoming not only the youngest spokesmodel in the company’s history but also the youngest model to sign an exclusive contract with the company, thereby propelling her to the status of “supermodel”—a top fashion model who appears simultaneously on the covers of the world’s leading
fashion magazines and is globally recognized by first name only. As the supermodel phenomenon began to rise, Taylor was at the forefront of a small group of models—known in the industry as “the supers”— who became worldwide celebrities, increasingly dominating both the high-fashion runways and the global media.
American singer RuPaul captured the phenomenon in the 1993 hit song aptly titled “Supermodel,” which mentioned the year’s top models—including Taylor—by first name only. Taylor was featured in the fashion documentaries Unzipped (1995) and Catwalk (1996).
In May 1996 she appeared on the covers of an unprecedented six leading fashion, beauty, and fitness magazines—Allure, Elle, Marie Claire, Self, Shape, and Vogue—thereafter known as the “Niki Six”.
NET WORTH
Niki Taylor has a current net worth of $6 million. Her financial success can be credited to her glorious modeling and television career, as well as her successful business ventures.
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