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Jean Shrimpton
English model and actress (born 1942)
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Shrimpton in 1965 | |
| Born | Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (1942-11-07) 7 November 1942 (age 82) High Wycombe, England |
| Other names | Jean Cox,[3] The Shrimp, Jeannie Shrimpton |
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| Spouse | Michael Cox (m. ) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Chrissie Shrimpton (sister) |
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| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1][2] |
| Hair colour | Brown |
| Eye colour | Blue |
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942)[4] is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels.[3][5][6][7] She appeared on numerous magazine covers including Vogue,[8][9]Harper's Bazaar,Vanity Fair,Glamour,Elle,Ladies' Home Journal,Newsweek, and Time.[10] In 2009,
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Happy birthday, Jean Shrimpton
What do you see when you think of London in the 60s? Mary Quant miniskirts, Carnaby Street, the Beatles, David Bailey, and Jean Shrimpton – a Buckinghamshire farm girl who became the face of a decade. Today, the Shrimp turns 71.
Let's be frank: as the baby boomers of the 50s and 60s grew up, got respectable jobs and became the establishment they fought so hard against, so have their youth icons – Shrimpton among them. Forty-eight years ago, the BBC would have never put on a show about a woman who dared to wear a dress 10cm above the knee at the Melbourne Cup. Last year, it devoted an entire TV movie to her (We'll Take Manhattan, starring Karen Gillen).
In 2013, it's hard to imagine a geometric shift dress or a messy ponytail as being particularly outrageous. But Jean Shrimpton was radical, even revolutionary, for her time. Even the idea of Jean Shrimpton – the working-class daughter of a self-made builder, hoisted onto a global platform and proclaimed the new face of youth culture – was radical.
In fact, youth, as we know it now, did no
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to her disenchantment with her past and unwillingness to remain in
the public eye. In an interview with the Guardian in 2011
she gave an insight into this mentality, stating: "Fashion is full
of dark, troubled people. It's a high-pressured environment that
takes its toll and burns people out. Only the shrewd survive - Andy
Warhol, for example, and David Bailey."
In an interview with BBC Radio 4 in 2011, Shrimpton spoke about being perceived as a great beauty. "You never like your looks," she said. "I thought I was too 'pretty, pretty' and a bit vacant-looking. I think if you are prone to neurosis, which I might have been, you never think you are that pretty. You hear models say that all the time. I was more interested in animals, so I wasn't bothered at all about my looks."
She has maintained that she was a reluctant model, and that her
success was more a matter of chance than ambition. "I never liked
being photographed. I just happened to be good at it," she said in
an interview with the Guardian in 2
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