Nikki Taylor

On July 19, 1994, a 4-months-pregnant Taylor married Martinez in a more traditional wedding ceremony in McCammon, Idaho. The following year, Taylor became the first spokesmodel under 18 to sign a major contract with CoverGirl and she became a feature in their national advertising campaign.

She has an older sister, Joelle, and had a younger sister, Kristen ( Krissy ), a fellow model, who died of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia on July 2, 1995, at the age of 17. When she was 13, Taylor signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida. Taylor also simultaneously had six enormous billboards in NYC s Times Square, for Liz Claiborne. In May 1996, she set a record Outside of modeling, Taylor was once an interviewer for segments of the syndicated program, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

She also covered events for NBC and guest-hosted MTV s Fashionably Loud. In the late 1990s, it was announced that Taylor would work on a line of clothing, bearing her name, for Target. She then took them again to cope with the sudden death of her best friend and younger sister, Krissy, and the demise of her marriage. On January 29, 2007, Taylor filed a federal lawsuit charging E! Entertainment with slander and emotional distress for its profile, Boulevard of Broken Dreams. The lawsuit indicates the documentary alarmed a cosmetics company with which she was negotiating to start a cosmetics line.

Niki had been taking pain killers since her delivery of twins. After only a few pieces, the line was suddenly dropped. Niki also appeared in Keith Urban s Somebody Like You music video in 2002.

Taylor and her twin sons later moved from South Florida to Nashville, Tennessee to be with Urban. Some of her other ad campaigns have been for Liz Claiborne; Nokia; Ellen Tracy; L Oréal; GAP, Lee Jeans; Rampage clothes, and Pantene.

Then-boyfriend Chad Renegar, the driver, was attempting to answer his cell phone. During a 1997 television interview, Taylor told reporter Nancy Collins, on ABC s Primetime Live, that she rushed into marriage at age 18: I didn t know him, and he didn t know me. Taylor went on to date NHL hockey player Rob Niedermayer, Miami night club king and convicted mobster Chris Paciello, Chad Renegar, and country music artist Keith Urban, whom she met on the set of Urban s 2002 music video Somebody Like You .

The following year, at 15, she graced the cover of Vogue. It premiered on January 10, 2008. A few months after graduating from high school in the fall of 1993, Taylor met former Miami Hooters linebacker Matt Martinez during a coin-toss at an Arena football game in Miami.

In December 1994, the couple had twin sons, Jake and Hunter. The store was named after Niki and Lou s dogs. In the fall of 2005, Taylor launched her first fragrance, Begin by Niki Taylor. She also founded the Begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business.

There she met photographer Jean Renard, who later became her manager. Nicole Renee Niki Taylor (born March 5, 1975) is an American model. Nicole ( Niki ) Renee Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a Broward Sheriff s Deputy and a photographer, respectively.

The lawsuit was, supposedly, thrown out of court. . They dated on-and-off until December 2004. In October 2006, (nine years after her rushed first marriage ended) Taylor became engaged to NASCAR driver Burney Lamar after just three dates. Taylor lives with her husband and daughter in a French colonial house on 7 acres (28,000 m2) in Brentwood, Tennessee. Taylor and Lamar s first child together, daughter Ciel Taylor Lamar, was born on March 4, 2009, one day before Taylor s 34th birthday.

She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida and attended Cooper City High School. There appears to be no paparazzi photos of them together. In July 2005, Niki Taylor opened a clothing store, Abbie and Jesse s, in Franklin, Tennessee with her manager and friend Lou Taylor (no relation).

He lost control of the car and smashed into a utility pole. She subsequently won a Fresh Faces contest in New York City and a $500,000 modeling contract. Taylor s first magazine cover was an issue of Seventeen (August 1989) at the age 14.

Taylor and Urban dated quietly from 2002-2004. Her official website, nikitaylor.com and numerous articles and television shows claim that she was the youngest model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue.

Less than two years later, Taylor and Martinez divorced. Three months later, in January 1994, they eloped in Las Vegas.

A pregnant Taylor, her sons, and Lamar were featured in a March 2009 magazine advertisement for Sketchers Footwear. On May 2, 2001, Taylor was critically injured in a car accident in Atlanta, Georgia. Niki introduced the finalists on friend and co-Cover Girl spokesmodel Tyra Banks talkshow in 2007. Niki and male model Tyson Beckford co-hosted the new Bravo series Make Me A Supermodel.

However, the record belongs to Brooke Shields, who was 14 years and 9 months old when her February 1980 issue came out. In 1991, Taylor was named one of People magazine s 50 Most Beautiful People, wearing a bright orange one-piece bathing suit with long, lime-green gloves on the beach.