Google the name “Ali Stephens” and you’re likely to find a few dozen sites featuring a girl whose beauty is simply out of this world, a muse for Balenciaga, Chloé, and Prada strutting down the runway like a seasoned pro. When I searched for her, I kept clicking through the list, hoping to see more photos and started coming across statistics for a cross-country runner named Ali Stephens from Utah with an interest in marine biology!
As it turns out, these two girls are the same person: the girl that glides down the catwalk can also run a blisteringly fast cross-country race! And the reason why photographs are relatively few and far between is because Ali was discovered only last August! Yes, August of 2007 and she landed on the runways of the crème de la crème of designers’ weeks later in the Milan and Paris Fashion weeks.
(talk about getting "discovered"...)
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