Niki Taylor Juggles Many Roles

Niki Taylor is an American supermodel who was one of hottest faces and figures of the 1990s. She is still for being the youngest model to appear on the cover of Vogue. Currently she is the president of her own company Niki Inc. Born as Nicole Taylor at Fort Lauderdale in Florida, Niki began modeling professionally at the age of fourteen. Her first magazine cover was an issue of Seventeen and at the same time she appeared on the pages of several reputed French fashion catalogues.

By the time Niki Taylor was sixteen she had made her first million and next year, she broke the record for being the youngest model to sign a multi million dollar contract when she became Loreals spokesperson and Cover Girls newest model. Her face on the classy magazine Vogue created a record for being the youngest model to appear on its covers at just seventeen years of age.

Niki Taylor has over four hundred magazine covers from all over the world to her credit. In the month of May 1996, she was seen on the covers of six high-fashion magazines like Vogue, ELLE, Allure, Marie Clare, Self and Shape and the phenomenon came to known as Niki Six. People Magazine named her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in 1991 and from 1997 to 1999, she continued to appear on the editions of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1998, she was featured on a swimsuit calendar in the manner of other famous supermodels of her time.

Some of the brands for which Niki Taylor has modeled are Nokia, Ellen Tracy, Liz Claiborne, LOreal, Pantene, Gap, Lee jeans and Victorias Secret. Apart from this she has catwalked for fashion houses like Givenchy, Chanel, Chloe and Calvin Klein on the most famous ramps of the world. At one time, she had six simultaneous and enormous billboards in New York Citys Times Square besides the three yearlong billboards for Liz Claiborne.

Other than modeling, Niki Taylor has been seen on television as well, interviewing for several segments of the international syndicated show Lifestyles, covering for the NBC and guesthosting MTVs Fashionably Loud. In 2001 she struggled with a series of health problem. She had to enter a rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to Vicodin, a prescription painkiller. The same year she was involved in a near-fatal car accident in Atlanta, Georgia which left her with a collapsed lung, severe liver damage and other internal injuries; in fact, she was unconscious for six months.

In 1994 Niki Taylor married Arena football player Matt Martinez and gave birth to twin boys at the end of the same year. However, the couple divorced two years later. In 2006, she married Burney Lamar, a NASCAR driver and currently she lives with her husband and children in Brentwood, Tennessee. Recently she has opened her own clothing store, Abbie and Jesses and has also set up the Begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business which helps women with limited resources to give shape to their business ideas. Niki Taylor