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| Karima Adebibe |
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?I've always been quite athletic, but I've had to step it up because the outfit is very? unforgiving. The shorts are very short, and the latex is very tight.?
-Karima Adebibe
| Date of Birth: 1985 |
| Birthplace: London, UK |
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| Karima brings all of our fantasies to life by giving a human face to the world?s curviest cyberbabe. ?Becoming Lara means being strong, ladylike yet rugged and very sexy,? she explains. ?As Lara I can do anything I want and not have to explain it. After all, who is going to mess with me?? |
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Karima was a relative unknown until recently. The 20-year-old British babe will be the seventh model to portray Lara Croft in the successful Tomb Raider video-game series.
"This is an incredible opportunity for me and one which I plan to grasp with both hands," she says. "It's a huge challenge to follow in the footsteps of people like Nell McAndrew and Angelina Jolie, but life is all about challenges and this is perhaps the biggest one for a model and actress." |
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Born in 1985, it has taken 20 years for the full impact of Karima?s birth to come to fruition. She was born in London?s East End and raised in her family?s ancestral homeland of Morocco until she was 7 years old, at which time she and her doting parents returned to London?s Bethnal Green.
A natural -- and naturally busty -- beauty, Karima grew up with a desire to be in front of the camera. However, despite some work and a bit part in AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004), Karima?s career was going nowhere fast. That?s when she heard that Eidos Interactive, the makers of Tomb Raider, was looking for a new model to portray the cyberbabe Lara Croft.
?I was about to quit modeling,? she admits. ?Going to all the castings was getting a bit tiresome and I wanted to do photography. Then this happened. It must have been a sign to stick with it.?
Despite a successful first audition, Karima didn?t think she had a shot at the coveted role. ?I don't know if it was a lack of confidence on my part, but when I saw the competition I was up against, I thought the girls were fantastic, and were in much better shape than I was,? she recalls. ?I did something really stupid during the casting. They asked me if I had seen the other girls, and I said, 'Oh yeah, wait 'til you see the next two girls, they're so much better than me.'"
Her self-deprecating nature must have worked, because Karima was soon told that she had beaten out thousands of other applicants from around the world to become the next Lara Croft. |
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