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Lauren Hutton: The Model Who Didn’t Give Up

Lauren Hutton is an American model and actress. She was born in South Carolina in 1943, but moved to New York City with her boyfriend, Pat Chamburs, when she was a young women. There, she worked at the Playboy club. From NYC she moved to New Orleans, graduated college in 1964, and then returned to New York City.

It was then that she began her modeling career. She began a model and was on the cover of Vogue magazine multiple times. You’d think at that point she would have been confident that the world enjoyed her appearance, but instead she was advised to hide the gap in her teeth. She tried using morticians’ wax to cover it, and then used a cap, which she often swallowed.