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Who is Yasmin Le Bon?

Yasmin Le Bon was born Yasmin Parvaneh on the 29th October 1964 in Oxford, England. She is a supermodel. She has had a fashion-modelling career of unusual longevity and finally retired in October 2007 at 43 years of age. In 1981, the young Yasmin was discovered by a local modelling agency while working a part-time sales job. One man who was particularly impressed with her was Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran. In 1984, he obtained Yasmin's number, and talked her into going to the movies with him as a first date. Although she thought they were just going to an ordinary movie, the he took her to the red carpet premiere of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. They married in December the following year. Yasmin took a brief hiatus from modelling in early 1986, after her marriage, but soon returned to the business and in April 1987 was hired by Guess? for a key advertising campaign. By 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. She appeared on the cover the first American and British issues of ELLE. Her other covers include Vogue, V, L.D., Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Living. In the spring of 2001, Yasmin, a 36-year-old mother of three, modelled bikinis for Marks & Spencer. In 2003, she signed an exclusive deal with designer Matthew Williamson.