Niki Taylor was born on the 5th March 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. She is a supermodel. After graduating high school, her education included studying special effects and taking song and dance classes. She has an older sister, Joelle, and her younger sister Kristen ("Krissy"), a fellow model, died of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia in 1995, at the age of 17. She grew up wanting to be a model and at age 13, she signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida. There she met up with photographer Jean Renard who became her manager. She subsequently won a Fresh Faces contest in New York City and a $500,000 modelling contract. She began professional modelling at the age of 14 and two years later she was a millionaire and president of her own company, Niki, Inc. Her first magazine cover was an issue of Seventeen and at 17, she graced the cover of Vogue, becoming the youngest model to do so. She has over 400 worldwide magazine covers to her credit and her six covers of Allure, Vogue, ELLE, Marie Claire, Self and Shape, all in the month of May 1996, have become known as the "Niki Six". In 2001, she went to rehab to treat an addiction to a prescription painkiller. On the 29th April 2001 she was critically injured in a car accident in Atlanta, Georgia, she is still in rehab today, six years after the accident.
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