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Cheryl Cox Tiegs (born September 25, 1947, in Breckenridge, Minnesota
Breckenridge, Minnesota

Breckenridge is a city in Wilkin County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,559 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wilkin County, Minnesota....
) is an American model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
.

Swimsuit modeling and acting career
She is best known for her long-running affiliation with the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales....
, which featured her on the cover in 1970, 1975, and 1983.






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Cheryl Cox Tiegs (born September 25, 1947, in Breckenridge, Minnesota
Breckenridge, Minnesota

Breckenridge is a city in Wilkin County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,559 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wilkin County, Minnesota....
) is an American model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
.

Early years


Tiegs was born in Minnesota, but raised in California, where she graduated from Alhambra High School
Alhambra High School

Alhambra High School is a secondary school located at 101 South Second Street in Alhambra, California, USA. It is the largest secondary school in the Alhambra Unified School District....
 in Alhambra, California
Alhambra, California

Alhambra is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California which is approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center....
 in 1965. She also attended the California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Los Angeles is a public university, part of the California State University system. The campus is located in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the University Hills, Los Angeles, California district at the center of Los Angeles metropolitan area just five miles from Los Angeles civic and cultural center....
 and became a little sister to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. By the time she was 17 years old, she appeared on the cover of Glamour
Glamour (magazine)

Glamour is a women's magazines published by Cond? Nast Publications. Glamour is a very successful magazine. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
 magazine. Other covers followed, including Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar is a well-known American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper's Bazaar considers itself to be the style resource for "the well-dressed woman and the well-dressed mind"....
, ELLE
Elle

Elle may refer to:*Elle **Elle Girl, a spin-off magazine*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle, orthographic unit consisting of ll in Spanish alphabet...
, Time
Time (magazine)

Time is a weekly United States newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition is published from London....
, and Vogue
Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in eighteen countries by Cond? Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design....
.

Swimsuit modeling and acting career


She is best known for her long-running affiliation with the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales....
, which featured her on the cover in 1970, 1975, and 1983. The 1978 poster of her in a pink bikini
Bikini

File:Girl with red flowered bikini.jpgA bikini or two piece is a women's swimsuit with two parts, one covering the breasts , the other the groin , leaving an uncovered area between the two ....
 became an iconic 1970s pop culture image.

While posing for the 1978 swimsuit issue, she took a quick dip in the water on the beach wearing a white cotton fishnet swimsuit. When she emerged from the water, photographer
Photographer

A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living whilst an amateur photographer does not earn a living and typically takes photographs for pleasure and to record an event, place or person for future enjoyment....
s—professional and amateur—flocked to her and asked her to pose for an extended amount of time—about 50 minutes. She later said she had no idea why the photographers suddenly took such an interest in her, and didn't discover why until she saw the final prints from the shoot: when wet, the suit was almost completely translucent
Transparency (optics)

In optics, transparency is the material property of allowing light to pass through. In mineralogy, another term for this property is diaphaneity....
.

Tiegs has resumed modeling, is appearing in the HGTV series Living With Ed
Living With Ed

Living With Ed is a reality television show which originally aired on HGTV, but can now be found on the new Planet Green channel in the United States....
 and has an accessory and wig line for Revlon
Revlon

Revlon is an American cosmetics company....
. She also appeared in Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo

Vincent Gallo is an United States film actor, Film director, Film producer, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and Painting. Although he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent film....
's controversial film The Brown Bunny
The Brown Bunny

The Brown Bunny is a 2003 in film United States independent film written, produced and directed by actor Vincent Gallo about a motorcycle racer on a cross-country drive who is haunted by memories of his former lover....
. She is a judge on the new ABC series True Beauty
True Beauty (TV series)

True Beauty is a television series in which contestants are competing to see who is the most beautiful. However, they think they are only being tested on outer beauty....
 that premiered on January 5, 2009.

Marriages and children


Tiegs was reputedly never comfortable in the spotlight and did not welcome the scrutiny that came with it. She has been divorced four times; her ex-husbands are Stan Dragoti
Stan Dragoti

Stan Dragoti is a film director, most notable for his mid-1980s comedies such as Mr. Mom and The Man With One Red Shoe.Stan Dragoti was born in New York city of Albanian parents....
 (1970–1979), Peter Hill Beard
Peter Hill Beard

Peter Hill Beard b. 22 January 1938 in New York is a photographer, artist, diarist and writer....
 (1981–1983), Tony Peck (1990–1995), and Rod Stryker (1998 - 2001).

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