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Selita Ebanks
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Selita Ebanks

Selita Ebanks, September 2007. Photograph by Christopher Peterson.
Birth name Selita Ebanks
Date of birth February 15, 1983 (1983-02-15) (age 24)
Place of birth George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Hair color Brown
Eye color Dark Brown
Measurements (US) 33C-24-34 ; (EU) 84-61-86.5
Dress size (US) 4 ; (EU) 34
Shoe size (US) 9 ; (EU) 41
Agency Women Model Management
Selita Ebanks (born February 15, 1983) is a Caymanian top model. She is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret and presently, one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.

Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Education
1.3 Career
2 Personal life
3 References
4 External links



[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life
Selita Ebanks was born on February 15, 1983 in George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. She is of Caymanian, Jamaican,and Indian descent.[1] She was raised in a large family that includes seven brothers. Influenced by her brothers, Ebanks played many sports growing up, such as basketball, football and tennis. The Ebanks family was quite poor, living in what she described as "a little blue, zinc-roof shack on Walkers Road". Often, Ebanks didn't have shoes to wear to George Town primary school. Her family, her mother in particular, encouraged her development through extracurricular programs.[2]


[edit] Education
Later in life, Ebanks moved to the United States, and settled in Staten Island, New York. After moving to New York City she was accepted at prestigious Spelman College, Columbia University, and New York University.[2] She had planned to study Law before she started modeling. Ebanks was a former attendee of the prestigious institution John F. Kennedy Middle School. While attending the institution she was a member of the debate team.


[edit] Career
At 17 years old, while walking through the turnstiles at Six Flags Great Adventure, Ebanks was scouted by an agent from Elite Model Management.[3][1] Ebanks had worked with some of the world's most noted photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, Carter Smith and Mikael Jansson, and for some of the most quintessential American fashion campaigns, including Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie & Fitch, Levi's and Tommy Hilfiger.

Ebanks is currently working as a model for Victoria's Secret. She had previously done work for their Ipex Bra line, before being signed.[1] She and fellow up-and-coming model Izabel Goulart made their major début in the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She is now officially one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.[1] She views Tyra Banks as a mentor. In 2005, Tyra Banks said she was proud of Ebanks to be representing for black women at Victoria's Secret.[4]

In 2007, Ebanks was selected to wear the "Very Sexy" Holiday Fantasy Bra Set with a price tag of $4,500,000 dollars that contains (diamonds, emeralds, rubies and yellow sapphires)--which she is featured in the Victoria's Secret "Christmas Dreams and Fantasies 2007" catalogue wearing the bra set and will wear the fantasy bra set during the Victoria's Secret fashion show on December 4, 2007.

On November 25, 2007 Ebanks was booed at a New England Patriots game while playing host to a lingerie give away on the Jumbotron. She was noticeably reading from a script and the crowd took advantage of her repeated gaffs by booing and heckeling her. She finally ended the promotion with a frown and unenthusiastic "Go Pats".

Ebanks will make a special guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother (episode: "The Yips") on November 26, 2007 with her fellow Victoria's Secret supermodels (Miranda Kerr, Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller, and Alessandra Ambrosio).

She made her first appearance on Sports Illustrated's 2007 Swimsuit Issue.[3]

She started to become an all-around-entertainer. She has recorded some music and appeared on the UPN-series South Beach.


[edit] Personal life
Ebanks was engaged to rapper, actor, and comedian Nick Cannon.[5][6] On October 4, 2007, People magazine announced that the couple has ended their engagement.[7]


[edit] References
^ a b c d "[1]".pr.com,Retrieved on 2007-06-08.
^ a b "Selita Ebanks Biography".askmen.com,Retrieved on 2007-06-08.
^ a b "Selita Ebanks".Sports Illustrated,Retrieved on 2007-06-08.
^ "[2]".The Tyra Banks Show, Retrieved on 2007-06-08.
^ "[3]".Yahoo! News,Retrieved on 2007-06-08.
^ "[4]"startribune,Retrieved on 2007-06-08.
^ Nick Cannon, Selita Ebanks Split Upsource:people.com By Charlotte Triggs. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
smack, going crazy. So I looked over at him with a straight face and said, "How's the food? Because the soundtrack is dope."

About the storyteller:

Esquire usually frowns upon breaking tradition. This page is still Funny Joke from a Beautiful Woman, but Selita Ebanks wanted to tell us a funny story, and sometimes we have a hard time saying no. And, really, come on. It's Selita Ebanks: a 24-year-old Caymanian discovered on line at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey; a Victoria's Secret Angel who holds her own in tiny swaths of satin beside Gisele Bündchen and Adriana Lima; and, come December 4 on CBS, the woman who's going to close the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show by wearing the $4.5 million Holiday Fantasy bra set. Hardware that extravagant requires a certain catwalk flair, and Ebanks has a plan. "They really do want us to have personality, to be fun and sexy at the same time. I might do a pimp limp. Or a breakdance at the end of the runway." Sounds like a painful floor burn waiting to happen, but she's got bigger concerns. The most dreaded fashion-show nightmares? "Falling down. Or having a boob pop out. But that never happens. Thanks, though. Now I'm going to be completely frickin' nervous. I'm gonna fall down and my boobs are gonna pop out." Remember, that's December 4. 10:00 p.m. CBS.

Esquire cannot guarantee that every reader will be able to retell this story effectively, especially if the reader a) has not been engaged to Nick Cannon or b) does not typically use the word dope.