Everyone has to start somewhere. But many of the world's top models started their careers in the places they least expected to.
While some models purposely enter the industry through contests and rounds of auditions, a number of fashion's biggest names launched their careers almost entirely by chance. Some of the industry's biggest icons were unexpectedly discovered while eating at McDonald's, horseback riding, and working in a cornfield, among other surprising circumstances.
Keep reading to learn how icons like Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Adriana Lima were fortuitously scouted to become models.
Victoria's Secret Angel Adriana Lima was discovered at a shopping mall when she was 13, according to Model Management.
Two years after originally being scouted, Lima won Brazil's Ford Supermodel of the World event, which catapulted her to fame.
In 1988, Kate Moss, then 14, was discovered in line to board a flight at JFK airport.
Unbeknownst to Moss, who was returning from vacation in the Bahamas, the woman behind her in line was the Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Model Management. Doukas recruited Moss for her agency on the spot.
Model scouts recruited Gisele Bündchen when she was eating a Big Mac at Mcdonald's, according to Vanity Fair.
When Bündchen was 13, she traveled from her rural hometown to São Paulo, Brazil, as a part of a modeling class. During the trip, she was scouted by an agent while eating her first-ever meal at McDonald's, Vanity Fair reports.
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