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"Karlie Kloss is seriously rocketing into the model stratosphere while barely out of high school--did you hear the news that she&amp;#39;s officially been cast in the Victoria&amp;#39;s Secret fashion show for the first time this year!?--but not every model gets her big break so young. Plenty of now-famous faces have held odd jobs and unlikely roles long before their stars were on the rise...\nPinterestFacebookVictoria&amp;#39;s Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes smiles during the 2009 Victoria&amp;#39;s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Armory in New York November 19, 2009. The show will be broadcast December 1, 2009 on CBS. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)\nPHOTO: AFP/Getty ImagesIn honor of the upcoming VS glitter-and-glitz extravaganza, Modelinia.com is brushing up on facts about their favorite models--and spilled earlier this week that Doutzen Kroes used to be a speed skater in her native Netherlands!\nPinterestFacebookAnother model who used her bod to her athletic advantage? Gisele Bundchen, who played volleyball all throughout school and intended to join a professional team before being discovered at a McDonald&amp;#39;s.\nPinterestFacebookANTIBES, FRANCE - MAY 20: Naomi Campbell arrives at amfAR&amp;#39;s Cinema Against AIDS 2010 benefit gala at the Hotel du Cap on May 20, 2010 in Antibes, France. (Photo by Venturelli/WireImage)\nPHOTO: WireImageNot every child star got their start through Toddlers &amp;amp; Tiaras: Naomi Campbell was dancing in videos while she was still in grade school, starring in Bob Marley&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Is This Love&amp;quot; at age seven and Culture Club&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ll Tumble 4 Ya&amp;quot; video at 12. (Get thee to YouTube. Incredible.)\nPinterestFacebookPHOTO: CATWALKING.COMCoco Rocha was discovered by model scouts at an Irish dancing competition--and still busts out her best moves now and again, as she did on the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier&amp;#39;s highlands-themed collection a few years back.\nPinterestFacebookPHOTO: 2008 Valerie MaconAnd finally, if you ever doubted that Cindy Crawford was more than just a pretty face, get this: The queen of the 90s catwalks was valedictorian of her high school class in 1984.\nKinda cool to see that most models were just regular girls like us before they became fashion icons, isn&amp;#39;t it? Which one of these hidden talents surprised you the most? Discuss!\nWant more model scoop?\n\nOMFG: A gold sculpture of this super sold for a cool mil\n\n\nAlessandra Ambrosio answers YOUR style questions\n\n\nE!&amp;#39;s new show &amp;quot;Scouted&amp;quot; tries to find the next big thing in a burger shop\n\nMore Ways to Get Glamour:\nChat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;#39;s schedule\nGet the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion\nCheck out our chic Tumblr!\nRead Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;#39;s now part of your subscription plan!\nLike freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nSign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#39;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise).\nAnd, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;#39;s the ultimate boredom buster.\nWant even more STF? Follow us on Twitter!\nLatest Tweets!\nFollow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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