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Amber Valletta on Preventing Mercury Exposure (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Oceana, an international ocean conservation group based in Washington, D.C., has been working to prevent seafood contamination for many years. Consuming big fish high on the food chain is the primary way that we are exposed to mercury, a heavy metal that can cause neurological and other health problems.
Gap Artist Edition T-Shirts (Los Angeles Times)
Limited-edition line featuring work by artists such as Barbara Kruger, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons and Rirkrit Tiravanija will launch Thursday. The spring runways were an art fest with Marc Jacobs collaborating with Richard Prince on bags at Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana hand-painting tulle ball gowns, and Michael Kors taking inspiration from Van Gogh. And now, at last, the trend has arrived at ...
Krissy Mac: Looks like they've got Brit's back (New York Daily News)
Britney's got her sister back, her body back and maybe even her boys back ... must have been a busy week. She's all smiles on Life & Style ("I Got My Body Back!") and OK ("Sisters Reunited!").
Planet of the gapes (Boston Herald)
"Quick! I need a tranquilizer gun and a ton of Purell!" The last time I heard that uttered the vice squad had to be called, but now it was Manolo, my beloved...
Winners and losers at Met's Costume Institute gala (AM New York)
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Iron Man are the talk of the Met, but at the Costume Institute party last night there were heroes and villains, too.
THE NEW VOGUE - JUNE 2008 (British Vogue)
AGYNESS DEYN 's second solo cover ? in teeny weeny white Burberry shorts with her peroxide crop artfully tousled (by Sam McKnight) ? and summer is here at last.
BEST MET (British Vogue)
ANYONE in the need of a little bank holiday glamour could've done worse than turn their gaze on New York yesterday evening, as the Metropolitan Museum hosted one of the most eagerly-anticipated events on the fashion calendar: the annual Costume Institute Gala , aka the Met Ball.
Amber Valletta Biography
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| Born | Amber Evangeline Valletta February 9, 1974 Phoenix, Arizona, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Hervé Le Bihan (1994 - 1996) (divorced) Christian McCaw (September 2003 - present) 1 child |
Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American model and actress.
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Biography
Early life
Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona to a mother who worked at the post office.[1] Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Booker T. Washington High School. She got her start in the fashion industry when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of fifteen at the Linda Layman Agency.
Career
Valletta has gone on to act in several films, been on the cover of magazines and in advertisements for Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Versace and hosted MTV's House of Style with friend and fellow supermodel Shalom Harlow. Valletta was scheduled to appear on Punk'd on Season 6 Episode 3, along with David Boreanaz and Kristin Cavallari, but the show's producer, Ashton Kutcher, had to move the prank played on Valletta to an episode later to make room for the prank played on Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens.
Personal life
Valletta is married to renowned Olympic volleyball player Christian "Chip" McCaw with whom she has a son, Auden. Before this marriage, she dated Leonardo DiCaprio in early-1998. Her first marriage, in 1994, was to Hervé Le Bihan. They divorced in 1996. On August 24, 2006, her publicist announced that she was going into rehab for non-substance abuse issues related to stress and image problems.
Valletta also serves as the spokesperson for Oceana’s[2] Seafood Contamination Campaign,[3] where she brings awareness of the dangers of mercury poisoning in various kinds of seafood. The decision to join Oceana's campaign was prompted by the mercury-poisoning experience of a friend and the fact that she is a mother.
In August 2006, the New York Daily News reported that Valletta completed a stint at The Meadow rehabilitation facility in Wickenburg, Arizona, for stress and non-substance-related issues. Valletta told People magazine, "As was correctly reported earlier this week, my stay at The Meadows had nothing to do with substance abuse or addiction; I am pleased to say I have seven years' sobriety. But I continue every day to heal and grow as a person".[4]
In January, 2008, she participated in a video for Barack Obama produced by Will.I.Am called Yes We Can.
Filmography
- Drop Back Ten (2000) - Mindy Deal
- What Lies Beneath (2000) - Madison Elizabeth Frank
- The Family Man (2000) - Paula
- Perfume (2001) - Blair
- Max Keeble's Big Move (2001) - Ms. Dingman
- Duplex (2003) - Celine
- Raising Helen (2004) - Martina
- Hitch (2005) - Allegra Cole
- Transporter 2 (2005) - Audrey Billings
- Man About Town (2005)
- Dead Silence (2007) - Ella
- Premonition (2007) - Claire
- The Last Time (2007) - Belisa
- Game (2009) - TBA
Television
- Hysteria - The Def Leppard Story (2001) - Lorelei Shellist
- Lucky (2003) - Sarah
- Rock Me Baby (2004) - Summer
- Punk'd (2005) - Herself
- Originally scheduled to appear on Season 6 Episode 3, but moved to Season 6 Episode 4 due to Terrell Owens suspension.
References
External links
- Amber Valletta at the Internet Movie Database
- Amber Valletta in the Fashion Model Directory
- Amber Valletta's work on the Oceana Seafood Contamination Campaign
- AskMen.com website
- Classic photographs from Vogue magazine
- Men's Vogue profile of Amber Valletta
| Preceded by Cindy Crawford |
Host of House of Style 1995-96 (co-host with Shalom Harlow) |
Succeeded by Daisy Fuentes |
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| NAME | Valletta, Amber |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American model and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phoenix, Arizona, United States |
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