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| Selita Ebanks |
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"There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry, I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama,' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something."
-Selita Ebanks
| Date of Birth: February 15, 1983 |
| Birthplace: Georgetown, Cayman Islands |
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| We always like a good rags-to-riches story, and Selita Ebanks, having gone from walking barefoot through Georgetown, Cayman Islands, to strutting down the catwalks of Paris and New York, fits the bill. With a grounded outlook as impressive as her physical charms, we think it couldn't have happened to anyone more deserving |
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| Best known for being one of the new faces (and figures) of Victoria's Secret, Selita Ebanks has an impressive modeling portfolio, having posed for everyone from Sports Illustrated to Neiman Marcus. She also had a small part on the new UPN show South Beach. |
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Selita Ebanks was born in Georgetown, Cayman Islands on February 15, 1983. She was raised in a large family that included seven brothers, and because of that, Selita played many sports growing up, such as basketball, football and tennis. But the family was quite poor, living in what Selita later described as "a little blue, zinc-roof shack on Walkers Road." Oftentimes, Selita didn't even have shoes to wear to Georgetown primary school. Yet Selita's family, and her mother in particular, encouraged her development through exposure to extra-curricular programs.
Eventually, the young Selita Ebanks found herself moving to America, and she settled on Staten Island. She proved to be a good student in high school, and was later accepted into Columbia and New York University. But Selita's life had already taken an unexpected turn which would put her higher education on hold. At the age of 17, Selita was discovered by a modeling agent at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure. |
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