• Celebrity Host, Model and Entrepreneur Brooke Burke Joins SKECHERS ...

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  Edinburgh Evening News - Found Jun. 19, 2009 Top Scottish designers Niki Taylor and Chloe Patience have also created luxury bras to auction off at a charity event after the walk. Walkers get out their bras to support breast cancer cause - Edinburgh Evening News Walkers get out their bras to support breast cancer cause - The Scotsman Explore All

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  Portsmouth Today - Found Jun. 27, 2009 I called my dad earlier and he was gutted.' Niki Taylor, 23, from Buckland, cried when she heard the news.

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  Business Wire - Found Jun. 25, 2009 ... that has included Tori Spelling, Brandy, Jack Coleman, Trista and Ryan Sutter, Holly Robinson Peete, Niki Taylor, and most recently Cesar...

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• Track: Girls relay team medals at New England championships

  York Weekly - Found Jun. 17, 2009 11th in the 300 hurdles (45.9), and the state champion 4x400 relay team of Danielle Clements, Niki Taylor, Michaela Swiatek and Carl placed...

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  ShoppingBlog.com - Found May. 24, 2009 Jamie Lee Curtis, Isla Fisher, Jennifer Garner, Jennie Garth, Melissa Joan Hart, Julianne Moore, Kyra Sedgwick, Niki Taylor and Kerri Walsh.

• Lamar, Taylor are NASCAR's odd couple

  Daily News Journal - Found Jun. 6, 2009 GOODLETTSVILLE ? Burney Lamar and Niki Taylor were the odd couple in 2006 when they first met at the annual Sprint Sound and Speed event in ...

Niki Taylor
Birth name	Nicole Renee Taylor
Date of birth	March 5, 1975 (1975-03-05) (age 34)
Place of birth	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Height	5 ft 9.5 in (1.77 m)
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Hazel
Measurements	34.5-25-34.5 (US) 87-64-87 (EU)
Shoe size	9 (US) 40 (EU)
Spouse(s)	Matt Martinez (1994–1996, 2 children, twin sons) Burney Lamar (2006–present, 1 child, daughter Ciel Taylor Lamar)
Official website

Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor (born March 5, 1975) is an American model.

Biography

Early life

Nicole ("Niki") Renee Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a Broward Sheriff's Deputy and a photographer, respectively. She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida and attended Cooper City High School. 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.

Modeling career

When she was 13, Taylor signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida. There she met photographer Jean Renard, who later became her manager. 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. The following year, at 15, she graced the cover of Vogue. 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. 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. 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. Some of her other ad campaigns have been for Liz Claiborne; Nokia; Ellen Tracy; L'Oréal; GAP, Lee Jeans; Rampage clothes, and Pantene. Taylor also simultaneously had six enormous billboards in NYC's Times Square, for Liz Claiborne.

In May 1996, she set a record by appearing on the cover of the six major American women's fashion and fitness magazines in the same month: Allure, Vogue, ELLE, Marie Claire, Self, and Shape. They have become known as the "Niki Six." Taylor appeared in the 1997, 1998 and 1999 editions of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, as well as on the 1998 cover of its swimsuit calendar. Taylor has been on the cover of over 400 magazines to date.

Taylor is currently represented by New York Model Management.

Business Ventures

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 Niki would work on a line of clothing, bearing her name, for Target. After only a few pieces, the line was suddenly dropped.

Niki also appeared in Keith Urban's "Somebody Like You" music video in 2002. Niki and Keith dated quietly from 2002-2004. 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).¹. The store was named after Niki and Lou's dogs.

In the fall of 2005, Niki launched her first fragrance, "Begin by Niki Taylor." She also founded the Begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business. Niki introduced the finalists on friend and co-Cover Girl spokesmodel Tyra Banks talkshow in 2007.

Niki and male supermodel Tyson Beckford co-hosted the new Bravo series Make Me A Supermodel. It premiered on January 10, 2008.² Although the show was renewed for a second season, Taylor did not return as co-host. ³.

Personal Life

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. Three months later, in January 1994, they eloped in Las Vegas. On July 19, 1994, a 4-months-pregnant Taylor married Martinez in a more traditional wedding ceremony in McCammon, Idaho. In December 1994, the couple had twin sons, Jake and Hunter. Less than two years later, Taylor and Martinez divorced. 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."^{cite this quote}

Taylor went on to date NHL hockey player Rob Niedermayer, Miami "night club king" and convicted mobster^{citation needed} 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". Taylor and her twin sons later moved from South Florida to Nashville, Tennessee to be with Urban. 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.⁴ Their wedding was on December 27, 2006, at the Grande Colonial Hotel in La Jolla, California. Instead of gifts, the couple asked for donations to be sent to Victory Junction Gang Camp, a camp for terminally ill children in North Carolina.⁵

Taylor lives with her husband and sons in a French colonial house on 7 acres (28,000 m²) in Brentwood, Tennessee.⁶.

Taylor and Lamar's first child together, daughter Ciel Taylor Lamar, was born on March 4, 2009, one day before Taylor's 34th birthday.⁷ A pregnant Taylor, her sons, and Lamar were featured in a March 2009 magazine advertisement for Sketchers Footwear.

Health struggles

On May 2, 2001, Taylor was critically injured in a car accident in Atlanta, Georgia. Then-boyfriend Chad Renegar, the driver, was attempting to answer his cell phone. He lost control of the car and smashed into a utility pole.⁸ Taylor was wearing her shoulder belt, but not the lap belt at the time and was not thrown from the vehicle; however, she suffered severe internal injuries, including a collapsed lung and serious liver damage. The accident left her unconscious for six weeks and then bedridden for an additional month. Taylor was treated at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and had approximately 56 operations, as well as substantial physical therapy. In 2001, she went to rehab to treat an addiction to Percocet, a prescription painkiller.⁹. Niki had been taking pain killers since her delivery of twins. 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.

Lawsuit

On January 29, 2007, Taylor filed a federal lawsuit charging E! Entertainment with slander and emotional distress for its profile, Boulevard of Broken Dreams.¹⁰. She alleged the producers promised to promote her successes but instead misrepresented her as a failure whose life has been filled with tragedy. "The first episode," the Complaint stated, "... is a false portrayal of Ms. Taylor as being continually plagued by ill fortune and tragedy."¹¹.

The lawsuit indicates the documentary alarmed a cosmetics company with which she was negotiating to start a cosmetics line with.¹² The lawsuit was, supposedly, thrown out of court.

References

1. ^ Callaway, Libby (2005-08-04). Niki Taylor has always kept the faith, from the runways of Paris to her new boutique in Cool Springs. Tennessean.com.
2. ^ "Niki Taylor, Tyson Beckford to host Bravo's 'Make Me a Supermodel'". Reality TV World.com. 2007-10-22. http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/niki-taylor-tyson-beckford-host-bravo-make-me-supermodel-5962.php. 
3. ^ Niki Taylor, Judges Dropped from Make Me a Supermodel 2 Realityblurred.com, January 7, 2009
4. ^ "Niki Taylor Engaged". US magazine. 2006-10-10. http://www.usmagazine.com/niki_taylor_engaged. Retrieved on 2007-06-02. 
5. ^ "Model Niki Taylor Weds NASCAR Driver". People magazine. 2006-12-29. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20005541,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-02. 
6. ^ "Niki Taylor Picks Motherhood Over Modeling". people.com. 2006-07-22. http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1217423,00.html. 
7. ^ It's a Girl for Niki Taylor! People, March 4, 2009
8. ^ "Model Niki Taylor out of surgery". CNN. 2001-05-03. http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/05/03/taylor.surgery/. Retrieved on 2007-06-02. 
9. ^ Stephen M. Silverman (2001-06-27). "Niki Taylor Begins Physical Rehab". People magazine. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,622151,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-02. 
10. ^ "Supermodel Files Lawsuit For E! Profile". Playfuls.com. 2007-01-30. http://www.playfuls.com/news_0004873_Supermodel_Files_Lawsuit_For_E_Profile.html. 
11. ^ Supermodel Niki Taylor's Lawsuit Against E! Entertainment and E! Networks
12. ^ http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/ent/taylore12607cmp7.gif

External links

• Niki Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
• Niki Taylor's profile in the FMD-database
• SI Swimsuit Collection gallery - Niki Taylor
• Niki Taylor official site