Tyra Banks
This one is only really going to be a surprise if you know nothing about Tyra Banks. Banks’ incredible career began when she signed with Elite Model Management, and she is often said to be the first black woman to appear on the covers of publications like “GQ” and “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.”
She now runs the incredibly successful show “America’s Next Top Model,” and she’s even written a novel. Tyra has been attacking barriers since she was back in her teens, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Keep after it, Banks.
Victoria Justice
That's Victoria Justice on the right there, smiling under her knit cap for Guess Kids. Not sure who her friend is, but she might be pleased to know that Justice went on to appear in numerous Nickelodeon shows, starting with “Zoey 101,” and later as Tori Vega on “Victorious.”
She's been in “The Boy Who Cried Werewolf,” “Fun Size,” “The First Time,” and “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.” She's also gotten into music, singing on the soundtracks of some of her shows, and she's also released a few of her own pop albums.
Keanu Reeves
He's gone from teen hunk to gritty action star and plenty of other places, but innocent kid model Keanu is a new side of the famous actor. His pretty-boy looks helped him get roles in movies such as “Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure” and “Point Break” before he became a worldwide star in “The Matrix.”
From there, he's done it all — a quick-thinking cop in “Speed,” an unstoppable assassin in the “John Wick” series, a master combatant in “Man of Tai Chi,” and a dangerous alien in “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” His most recent big appearance was the voice and model of Johnny Silverhand in the video game “Cyberpunk 2077.”
Cara Delevingne
Her first big break, “Suicide Squad,” might have been dead on arrival, but Delevingne wasn't going to let a single bad project stop her. She started modeling for Vogue Italia at the age of ten and went on to appear on the catwalk for Burberry, Jason Wu, and Dolce & Gabbana. She won Model of the Year during the 2012 and 2014 British Fashion Awards.
It's been said that she quit modeling because she had forgotten what it was like to be happy. After starring in “Paper Towns,” Cara has demonstrated she has what it takes to make it big as an actress, and she's focused on her Hollywood career with all her intensity.
Lucille Ball
It's almost impossible to think of Lucille as anyone other than the ditzy and lovable Lucy from “I Love Lucy,” but as a teen, this famous actress worked in New York as an in-house model for fashion entrepreneur Hattie Carnegie. She got Lucille to bleach her brown hair blonde.
Lucille once said that “Hattie taught me how to slouch properly in a $1,000 hand-sewn sequin dress and how to wear a $40,000 sable coat as casually as rabbit.” How much would such a coat be worth now? Approximately $634,000! Assuming the coat was originally made in 1930, at least. It could be worth even more.