Later, Madonna went to Rochester Adams High School, becoming a straight-A student and a member of the cheerleading squad. After graduating, she received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan. She convinced her father to allow her to take ballet lessons, and was persuaded by her ballet teacher to pursue a career in dance. Subsequently, she dropped out of college at the end of 1977, and relocated to New York City. Madonna had little money at the time and lived in squalor, working as a waitress at Dunkin' Donuts and with modern dance troupes.
Gisele Bundchen lends her support and image to a number of charities and humanitarian causes, such as the I am African campaign, in which she painted her face to protest the lack of attention given to Africa's HIV/AIDS victims. Without receiving payment, Gisele Bundchen was, in 2006, the face of American Express Red Card, an initiative launched by U2 front man Bono and Bobby Shriver to send a percentage of monies earned from the financial transactions of this credit card to Africa's HIV/AIDS victims.
In the late 1990s, music video director Little X discovered Melyssa Ford while she was working as a bartender at a Toronto nightclub and helped launch her modeling career. She has appeared in music videos, men's magazines, television programs and films. Ford was an on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio's Hot Jamz channel, Melyssa Ford sells a line of calendars and DVD.
Stacey Dash performed in the 2008 reality television series, Celebrity Circus. Prior to the series premiere, Dash suffered a broken rib while training. Despite the injury, Dash performed on the trapeze bungee during the premiere and continued on to be a finalist. Stacey Dash finished second behind Antonio Sabato, Jr.
On the night of November 4, 2004, photographs surfaced of Tara Reid from the red carpet at Puff Daddy's 35th birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York City, when her dress fell, exposing her left breast.
After moving to Los Angeles, Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared in more than twenty television commercials. Jennifer Love Hewitt's first break came as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989–1991), where she was credited as just Love Hewitt. During this time Jennifer Love Hewitt danced in and sang all the songs for a live action video called Dance! Workout with Barbie released by Buena Vista.
On January 18, 2010 Tara's boyfriend Michael Axtmann, an internet entrepreneur from Nuremberg, proposed to Tara Reid at The Little Door restaurant in Los Angeles. The couple is reportedly planning an intimate ceremony for summer 2010.
In 2005 Jennifer Ellison was voted "world's sexiest blonde" by readers of the UK magazine Nuts, beating model Victoria Silvstedt, who came second, and pop superstar Britney Spears, who was voted third. Jennifer Ellison is also a regular in the yearly FHM "100 Sexiest Women in the World" feature. Jennifer Ellison first appeared in 2003 at number 60; then at number 29 in 2004; by 2005 Jennifer Ellison was at number 17; in 2006 she was number 31; in 2007, she fell to number 87; and in 2008 she did not feature. Jennifer Ellison's drop down the list over the last two years is largely attributable to her taking a break from modeling from late 2006 to early 2008. However, Jennifer Ellison has since returned to modeling. Jennifer Ellison won the Rear of the Year award in 2008. 
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx. Scarlett Johansson's parents met in Denmark, where her mother lived with Johansson's maternal grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher. Scarlett Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared in the film Manny & Lo with Scarlett); and an older half-brother, Christian, from her father's first marriage.
