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Veronica Webb

Veronica Webb was born on twenty-third February in the year 1965. She was born in Detroit in Michigan, USA to parents from a poor family. As a teenager, Webb used to enjoy fashion magazines as well as comic books and she had always dreamt of pursuing a career in animation. She did her schooling from Detroit Waldorf School, from where she graduated from in 1983. She then moved to New York in order to study design.

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When a make-up artist saw her while she was in a housewares boutique and convinced her to model, she dropped out of school in order to pursue a career as a model. She was eventually made a spokesmodel for makeup brand ‘Revlon’. She had also appeared in some music videos like ‘Round and Round’ and ‘Technique’ by New Order and also a video by Scritti Politti in 1985.

According to her biography, Webb’s debut into the film industry began with ‘Jungle Fever’ by Spike Lee. She also has several movies in her credit like ‘Malcolm X’, ‘The Big Tease’, and ‘Someone Like You…’. She has also starred in many TV serials like ‘Becker’, ‘Just Shoot Me’, ‘Damon’, and ‘Clueless’. She has also modelled on the runway for fashion designers like ‘Todd Oldham’, ‘Issac Mizrahi’, ‘Karl Lagerfeld’ and ‘Azzedine Alaia’. In the year 2006, she had the opportunity to appear for a feature film titled ‘Dirty Laundry’.

Webb is also known for articles, columns, and essays in several magazines and newspapers like the ‘Interview’ magazine, ‘Panorama’, ‘The Sunday Times’, ‘Ellie’, ‘Details’, ‘Paper Magazine’, ‘Esquire’, ‘The New York Times Syndicate’ and many others. She frequently dedicates time to various charitable organizations like Product Red and LIFEBeat. She is also involved with the RPM Nautical Foundation as her previous husband worked to bring up shipwrecks for institutions like museums. The LIFEBeat organization is special to her as she was affected by the AIDs crisis back in the 80s when she was a model in New York.

Webb had stayed in Paris for a year, where she learnt French from Azzedine Alaia. Webb had also been chosen to promote skin health by Eucerin Skin First Council. She was also co-hosting the show titled ‘Bravo’s Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style’. Webb’s collection of autobiographical essays was published in the year 1998 titled ‘Veronica Webb Sights: Adventures in The Big City’ by a publisher called Miramax. She had also launched a business mentoring program which provided its recipient an opportunity to be mentored by Webb herself.

Webb married George Rob in 2002. She had two children with him before they got divorced in 2009. Her net worth is believed to be in millions, however, no information regarding the exact value is known. Currently she is engaged to Chris Delgatto, who is the founder and chairman of the Del Gatto Luxury Group. Although she came from a humble background, Veronica Webb made it big in life and encourages us all to never give up on our dreams and to keep working until we achieve them.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 25 Feb, 1965
Age: 55 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Detroit
Gender: Female
Description: American model
Net Worth 2021: 8 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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