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Leif Stacey Profile |
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Birth Date: 1982
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Birth Place: Indian, Alaska, USA
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Birth Name: Leif Stacey
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Height: 6'1"
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Biography |
Discovered in a ModelLaunch model search, the journey Leif
Stacey has traveled -- from the Alaskan wilderness to the
runways of Milan -- and the story of how he overcame
disabilitating shyness to become the ultimate cool kid, is
an American saga of epic proportions. Through sheer guts and
determination Leif beat down every obstacle placed in his
path.
Leif Stacey was raised in a cabin in the middle of the
Alaskan wilderness with no electricity, plumbing or TV. His
family hauled the water they drank and used kerosene lamps
for light. When he went to the outhouse as a five year-old
boy, he carried a twelve-gauge shotgun under his arm to
protect himself from bears. And not growing up around many
other children left him painfully shy. "In Junior High
School," he tells me, "I was the only kid sitting by myself
at a table in a lunchroom full of 2,000 students. I was
always looking at the popular kid's table thinking 'how can
I get over there?'"
Today, Leif Stacey is the 6'1", 21 year-old Gemini with
shaggy, light-blond hair gracing the cover of A&F's 2002
Christmas catalogue, right next to supermodel Heidi Klum. He
is also the face representing Ralph Lauren's Polo, Blue
Label, Polo Jeans and Eyewear lines. And that's just his
first season. |
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