Africa’s Angel: Nicola Breytenbach-Steiner
South African-born beauty Nicola Breytenbach-Steiner has graced the pages of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue and American Marie Claire, to name a few. She’s walked the runways of Milan, Paris, London and New York for designers Chanel, Galliano and Dior. She’s done campaigns for Revlon, L’Oreal and worked alongside international supermodels Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer.
And it all started when Nicola’s mother’s hairdresser spotted her and managed to convince her to see a modelling agent in Amsterdam when she was 14. Born in Durban, South Africa, raised in Europe, and now residing in the United States, Nicola got her big break when she was appointed as Dior’s in-house model and it wasn’t long before she turned into one of the hottest ramp models in Europe. But the excitement didn’t stop there. A few years later she was approached by Trump Models in New York and moved her life to The Big Apple.
Within months she joined Trump Models, owned by Donald Trump, and landed a contract with cosmetics giant, Revlon, as the face for their Absolutely Fabulous campaign. Mr. Trump also handpicked Nicola to appear in the second and third season of the popular reality TV series, The Apprentice.
She says the most challenging part about modeling at that time was maintaining a balance between her career and personal life. Downtime for Nicola means being able to relax with her husband, Ben Steiner and toddler daughter Evangeline, and family and friends. She loves painting and cooking and is increasingly spending more time and energy working for her favorite charity, the Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F.), in her role as the organization’s first Angel Ambassador.
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