Marisa Lee Miller (born August 6, 1978) has modeled for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and Vogue Issues as well as famous, lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret.
She has modeled for big name companies like Harley-Davidson and ranked #1 on Maxim magazine’s 2008 “Hot 100” . When she is not working, she is an ambassador for the American Cancer Society.
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Born Marisa Lee Bertetta in Santa Cruz, California, to parents Marc and Krista Bertetta. Miller attended high school at Aptos High and Monte Vista Christian School. She considered herself a tomboy growing up, with mostly male friends and little awareness of anything girly. Out of shyness, she often wore large t-shirts to hide her body and would get fully dressed just to go to the beach. Miller was first “discovered” at age sixteen walking through a San Francisco café by two Italian modeling agents. Soon after, her and her mother made the trip to Italy to launch Marisa’s career. In 2001, she was on hiatus from modeling and running a surf school in California, where she would often be seen surfing.
Noticing her, photographer,Testino snapped pictures of her and approached her with a job offer. It turned out to be editorials for both the American and Italian editions of Vogue. Within six months, Miller was working for Victoria’s Secret and the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, in which she appeared in every issue from 2002 to 2008. In particular, she famously posed wearing only an iPod in the 2007 issue. She has also appeared in a diverse range of magazines, many of them international editions, such as GQ, Maxim, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle, and Vanity Fair. She has featured in advertisements for Nordstrom, J.Crew, Guess?, Tommy Hilfiger, Pepsi, Panasonic, Bath & Body Works and True Religion jeans.
Marisa Miller
In July 2008, Miller took her first step beyond modeling when her shoe line with skateboarder/surfer-oriented company Vans launched. On December 4, 2007, Miller made her debut in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and opened a segment in the following year’s edition. Other runway credits of Miller’s include 2007′s Fashion for Relief show, benefiting victims of Hurricane Katrina. In September 2008, Sports Illustrated released a “Best of Marisa Miller” swimsuit calendar for the 2009 year.
Victoria’s Secret also put her to work in 2008, with a five-city tour to promote the 2008 Swim collection’s release in stores; the April-May tour included stops in New York City, Miami, Chicago (where she threw the opening pitch at a Chicago Cubs baseball game), Boston, and Minneapolis. The relaunch of Victoria Secret’s sports line, VSX, soon followed, along with her first official campaign as an Angel: promoting the company’s fragrance Very Sexy Dare.
For the 2009 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Miller was chosen to wear the year’s “Fantasy Bra,” a harlequin design featuring 2,300 white, champagne, and cognac diamonds, and a 16-carat heart-shaped brown-yellow diamond pendant for a $3-million value and 150 total carats.
She was married to Jim Miller, a Los Angeles surfing contest promoter and lifeguard from California in 2000. The couple separated in 2002 and then divorced soon after. She married music producer Griffin Guess on April 15, 2006.
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