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Selita ebanks biography

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Ebanks, Selita

1983—

Model

Best known as a runway and print model for the lingerie company Victoria's Secret, Selita Ebanks is one of the few black models who have risen to the top of the fashion industry. In addition to modeling, the Cayman Islands native has appeared in the short-lived UPN drama South Beach and in an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She hopes to transition into feature film work. However, she conceded in an interview with the Cayman Net News, "There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry. I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the ‘ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama.’"

Ebanks was born in 1983 in George Town, the capital of the Cayman Islands. Part of the British West Indies, the Caymans are an overseas territory of Great Britain, and a relatively prosperous place thanks to its status as an offshore financial-services haven. About 60 percent of its total population of 50,000 is of mixed race, like Ebanks. Her father was Jamaican, and her mother a native of the Caymans. In an interview with Alli

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Selita Ebanks

Born of Native American, Irish and African descent to a Jamaican father and a Caymanian mother in George Town, Grand Cayman, Ebanks was raised in a large family. She moved to the United States and settled on Staten Island. She was accepted by Columbia University and New York University, but instead chose to pursue modeling. In 2000, at the age of 17, while walking through the turnstiles at Six Flags Great Adventure, Ebanks was scouted by an agent from Elite Model Management.

Ebanks made her debut in February 2001 at the fall show for Tuleh. After working for the likes of Catherine Malandrino, James Coviello, Abercrombie & Fitch, and DKNY, she signed a contract with Victoria's Secret in 2005. She made her major debut in the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, working as an Angel until 2008. With her success at Victoria’s Secret, Forbes ranked Ebanks as the twelfth highest paid supermodel for 2008, earning $2.7 million.

She has got involved in different aspects of the entertainment industry including a guest roles on “How I Met Your Mother,” “South Be

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