How Your Favorite Supermodels Got Their Start

Doutzen Kroes

This Holland native needed some extra cash when she turned 18, so she took a chance and sent some photos of herself to a modeling agency. She was signed immediately. "I felt super-young coming from the north of Holland," she later said in an interview, "I went to Amsterdam only once before I went to New York. It was a really big adventure to go there."

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.