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Lyndsey Scott (born December 7, 1984) is an American model.

Biography[]

She grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, as the eldest of four children. Her father founded a home healthcare company after having been a programmer for the National Security Agency. Her father died of leukemia in early 2017.

She practiced martial arts since the age of nine, and earned a black belt in Taekwondo.

She endured bullying and taunting while growing up. She says she was the only black person in her first three years at Newark Academy, her New Jersey preparatory high school, and so thin – at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) and 80 pounds (36 kg) – that she said she was called a "monster". She says peers would invite then uninvite her from parties, and tell her she couldn't sit with them in the dining room.

She attended Amherst College, where she studied theatre, economics, and physics, before taking computer science. She also ran and did high jump for the Amherst track and field team, earning All-America status for the 400 meter dash. She graduated Amherst College in 2006 with a joint degree in theatre and computer science.

Career beginnings[]

After college, she was more interested in acting than computer science, and began pursuing auditions in New York City. Her body had changed in college, partly due to taking weight-gain supplements, and she says she "started looking more like a model". So, with the encouragement of friends, she applied for modeling work, but was turned down by every agency she approached for two years; her parents urged her to take up computer science jobs.

She had, however, put her picture on the website Models.com, and in 2008 she was contacted by Click Model Management of New York City. Elle Girl featured her in a video about the day of a fashion model, including some of her Click new model training. She was then 24, which was considered old for a model. The agency asked her to trim five years from her age,and for her first few years modeling she claimed to have been born in 1990.

Personal life[]

She is also a software developer, and actress.

Early in her modeling career, she lived on Roosevelt Island in New York City; she said that compared to downtown Manhattan, her apartment was bigger for less money, and she could be involved in the community. By 2017, she lived in Beverly Hills, California. In 2016, she was sued by an unhappy renter who leased her Roosevelt Island apartment through Airbnb, and said that the apartment was dilapidated and the area unsafe; she said the posted photos, descriptions and reviews were verifiable and accurate. The case was dismissed.

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[]

Lyndsey walked in one Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

2009[]

Lyndsey walked in Segment 3: PINK Planet.

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