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Date of birth                   April 23, 1986 (1986-04-23) (age 22)
Place of birth                  Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
Height                            1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair color                       Blonde
Eye color                        Blue-Grey
Weight                           108 lb (49 kg/7.7 st)
Dress size                     34 (EU) / 2 (US) / 6 (UK)

Jessica Stam (born April 23, 1986), also known simply as Stam, is a Canadian model.

Jessica Stam was born in Kincardine, Ontario and grew up on a farm alongside her six brothers. She came from a religious family and she attended Sacred Heart High School (in Walkerton, Ontario). Originally wanting to be a dentist, she was soon to be one of the top earning supermodels today.

Jessica Stam was discovered in a local Tim Hortons coffee shop by Michèle 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).

Jessica Stam won the Los Angeles Model Look Search in 2002. Photographer Steven Meisel jump started her career and soon after cast her in every ad campaign of his. Suddenly, she was a star. “I guess I’m his muse,” she has said. She has 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, Dior, BCBG Max Azria, Lanvin, Roberto Cavalli, Bulgari, H&M and DKNY. In 2004, Stam appeared in the short film Agent Orange. She was on the Catwalk for Mango and Victoria’s Secret.

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs created The Marc Jacobs Stam, a bag inspired by and named after her. For the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2006 she opened the fourth runway theme “Pink”. The appearance also included a featurette showing a Victoria’s Secret commercial shoot and what a model sees when walking the runway. In the January 2006, she appeared in the Rochas ad campaign, shot and directed by Bruno Aveillan.

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