Jessica Stam

Jessica Stam

Jessica Stam info:

COUNTRY: Canadian model

DATE OF BIRTH: April 23, 1986

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kincardine, Ontario, Canada

EYES: blue

HAIR: red

Jessica Stam

Jessica Stam Biography:

Stam was born in Kincardine, Ontario, and grew up on a farm alongside her six brothers. As a child, her family was very religious, practicing the Christian faith. She originally wanted to be a dentist. Stam was discovered in a local Tim Hortons coffee shop by Michele Miller, an agent at the International Model Management agency in Barrie, Ontario, who found Stam on the way back from Canada's Wonderland, a theme park just outside Toronto. Stam attended St. Joseph's High School in Barrie, Ontario, where she lived with roommate and fellow model Michelle V. 

As soon as photographer Steven Meisel discovered the then 16-year-old Stam, he cast her in every ad campaign of his, and suddenly she was a star. "I guess I'm his muse," she has said of her mentor Stam won the Los Angeles Model Look Search in 2002. Her career was set off when she appeared on the cover of UK & German Vogue and she has appeared in advertisements for Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Vera Wang, Valentino, Miu Miu, Gucci, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace and Holt Renfrew. In 2004, Stam appeared in the short film Agent Orange.

Jessica Stam

Jessica Stam