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She grew up on her parents'
horse-breeding farm in Thames, New Zealand. Having been a beauty queen,
Bax was first discovered in a New Zealand shopping mall by an agent from
modelling agency Clyne Model Management.
After discovering her marketing abilities as a fashion model, she soon
moved to New York in to work as a model. Bax became Steven Meisel's
protege. With her new "boyish looks" but still very feminine, she went on
to work with top photographers such as Karl Largerfeld, who treated her
like his daughter, Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon.
Bax is currently married-to fashion photographer Spiros Poros and has two
daughters, Lito and Dione Nefeli. Bax also has a stepson named Aris.
Bax is branching out of modeling to pursue an acting career. She appeared
in the films The Big Tease and Get Over It with Kirsten Dunst.
On November 3, 2006, Bax filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles Friday
against a French men’s magazine for putting two breast-baring photos of
her on its wrapper. Bax claims she did not give permission for the racy
photographs, which were taken about six years ago, to be used on the front
and back of Max Magazine’s April 2006 wrapper
Once discovered Bax became an international modeling success, signing with
Women in New York, Marilyn in Paris, and Storm in London. She has appeared
on numerous international magazine covers, including Vogue, Marie Claire,
Harper's Bazaar & Mode Australia, Maxim, Vanity Fair, ELLE and Sports
Illustrated. She has also appeared on more than 20 Vogue covers around the
world.
In 2000, Bax joined a list of beauties like Estella Warren, Veronica
Varekova and Michelle Behennah in Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue of
2000. Soon after Bax appeared in Playboy magazine in a full frontal
spread.
She has appeared in campaigns for international products such as Club
Monaco, Anna Sui, Clinique, Ann Taylor, DKNY, Escada, Gianfranco Ferre,
Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Oscar de la Renta, Sonia Rykiel, Versace,
Moschino,Nars, Valentino..
She has walked down catwalks for high fashion houses such as Moschino,
Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, and
Valentino, Gucci, Galliano, Donna Karan, Cynthis Rowley, Calvin Klein,
Joop, Alexander McQueen, Phillip Treacy, Karl Lagerfeld, Chloe, Ralph
Lauren,Prada, Miu Miu,.....
Bax has had various roles in film, with appearances in 1999's Storm
Catcher and The Big Tease. She also appeared in the 2000 comedy, We
Married Margo, as well as Jill Rips that same year.
She then moved on to teen films, with a role as a Victoria's Secret
supermodel in the romantic comedy Boys and Girls, along with fellow models
Ines Rivero and Kristy Hinze. In 2001, Kylie and Carmen Electra appeared
in Get Over It, starring Kirsten Dunst. |
