Fashion model, Activist, and UNESCO volunteer who, in the 1980s and 1990s, helped popularize the term "supermodel." She appeared on the 40th anniversary cover of Essence in 2011.
When she was 10 years old, she studied ballet at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and was discovered when she was 15.
She had a long-time feud with fellow model Tyra Banks. She was in Michael Jackson's video for "In the Closet."
She dated Mike Tyson and Robert De Niro. She became engaged to U2 bassist Adam Clayton in 1993, but broke it off in 1994. She is the daughter of Jamaican-born Dancer Valerie Morris.
She and Kate Moss helped spearhead the supermodel era.
