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“The most beautiful of all the models I have known “the shrimp”. Big eyes, perfect face and thin legs: JEAN BECAME
was Jean Shrimpton. To walk down the King’s Road, she is Jean Shrimpton. British model who, in the ONE OF THE
Chelsea with Shrimpton was like walking through 60s, changed the model of female beauty: a beauty WORLD’S FIRST
the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left made of spontaneity and freshness. Jean Shrimp- SUPERMODELS
as she strode up the street ... Shrimpton herself se- ton was born on November 7, 1942 in Buckingham- AND THE HIGHEST-
emed to have no awareness of her extraordinary shire, England. After being discovered and encou- PAID MODEL OF
HER TIME. SHE IS
looks”, Mary Quant. Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is raged to enroll in a modelling school in London, REGARDED TODAY
an english model and actress. she was an icon of Jean became one of the world’s first supermodels AS THE FACE
swinging london and is considered to be one of and the highest-paid model of her time. She is re- OF “SWINGING
the world’s first supermodels. she appeared on garded today as the face of “Swinging London”, and LONDON”,
numerous magazine covers and was nicknamed for popularizing the miniskirt: when she appare at

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