As a girl growing up in Oshawa, Ontario, Canadian supermodel and actress Shalom Harlow studied ballet and dreamed of becoming an astronaut when she grew up. Instead she reached the stratosphere of high fashion celebrity, making it into Forbe's magazine's list of the World's Top-Earning Supermodels, with an estimated net worth of over $10 million.

Shalom was named by her mother after the Jewish word for 'Peace', but her family is not of Jewish descent. The leggy 5' 11" beauty was discovered at the age of 16 by Anne Sutherland at a concert by The Cure in Toronto. Shalom started modelling straight out of high school and it didn't take long before she was gracing the covers of magazines like Vogue and strutting down the catwalk for top designers such as Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, Isaac Mizrahi, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano. She has a a 'Nars' lipgloss named after her and is probably best-known as the face and spokesperson of Chanel's 'Coco' fragrance.

In 1996, Shalom Harlow and fellow model friend Amber Valletta took over hosting MTV's House Of Style from Cindy Crawford. She's also turned her hand to acting, starring in a series of movies which include the likes of Vanilla Sky, The Salton Sea, Head Over Heels and In & Out. In 2007, well into her thirties, Shalom Harlow was still modelling for Jones New York, Tumi, Tiffany & Co, Nautica, and Chloé. And in 2008 she appeared in the Valentino's Spring/Summer 2008 campaign. Once asked by Cindy Crawford if she had ever posed nude, Shalom Harlow gave the sort of answer we like to hear from all our favourite celebs. "Oh, yeah...I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!" she said.