![]() She debuted on the catwalk nearly a decade ago and that one time she fell (at a 2011 Concept Korea show), folks still focused on the sexy Snow White outfit she was sporting, not the apple she dropped on the floor in the tussle. She once told reporters she was certainly not the "hottest chick" at school and she and her girlfriends Bella Hadid and Barbara Palvin "all peaked a little later than the other girls." But now she's been on the cover of German, Turkish, Spanish, Thai, and Japanese versions of Vogue magazine. Lions, founded in 2014, and Kavoussi, an out gay agent, has helped shape her career ever since. When Kavoussi struck out on his own as a managing partner of The Lions Talent Management in New York, Maxwell (and a bevy of A-list models) went with him. I can't stress how important it is to have a team around you that you love and trust." Ali and I met, and things just fell into place. "I told him 'no,' but we ended up having mutual friends and we shot for Vogue Japan that same week. "David came up to me at a cafe in The Marais and asked to photograph me," Maxwell recalls. She moved to Paris and soon met photographer David Mushegain, who became her mother agent (the first agency that picks a model up), and it was through him that she met her current agent, Ali Kavoussi. Indeed, the 30-year-old was barely in her 20s when she was scouted while working at a newsstand in college. I can't imagine better places to grow up. I then of course moved to Australia, then New Zealand - what a cool place to be a teenager! Fun and free. I think, let's say your child grew up in L.A., they would have maybe more street smarts, and if they grew up in Brussels or Amsterdam or Copenhagen, they have this certain innocence and also culture. Honestly, Europe is such an amazing place for children. I was born in Belgium and spent some of my most important formative years there. "Of course, your environment growing up affects you," Maxwell muses. Through it all she's become, well, exceedingly well-rounded. Today she lives in Los Angeles, hence the amusement park dates as well as hobnobbing at Nobu and lighting up glitzy Hollywood parties. ![]() The baby of the family (and named after her mother), Maxwell was raised in Belgium until she was 13, then Australia for a year, then New Zealand, the latter of which she tends to think of as home as she spent both her teen years and university days there (she was attending the University of Otago when she was discovered as a model). ![]() Born Stella Maynes Maxwell, she was the first Irish and British Victoria's Secret Angel, having been born in Belgium to Northern Irish parents (her father is a former diplomat).
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