Marisa Miller’s model year just got ‘Maxim’ exposure
Marisa Miller, 29, might just be having the best year ever. She landed the coveted Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover in February, she’s going into her seventh year as a Victoria’s Secret model, and now she’s the first to debut at No. 1 on the Maxim Hot 100 List.
Models are “constantly competing for campaigns and magazine covers as the industry really changes and becomes celebrity-saturated,” the California native says. “So to get that kind of notoriety now is really, really incredible.”
Maxim editorial director James Kaminsky says 2008 is indeed the year of Miller. “She represents the return of the great American supermodel, and she’s veering towards ubiquity,” he says. “But in a really great way.”
In addition to basking in the glow of her newly appointed hotness, Miller is developing a shoe line with Vans and supporting the Young Survival Coalition, which promotes breast cancer awareness among women in their 20s and 30s.
And although Miller, who’s married to movie producer Griffin Guess, calls the past year “a dream come true,” she’s more than willing to share the spotlight.
She says there are plenty of women she’d pull into the Maxim top 10 with her, including fellow Victoria’s Secret angel Heidi Klum and a slew of vintage supermodels.
“Cindy Crawford, Christie Brinkley, Stephanie Seymour; I really like the (classic) American supermodels,” she says. But “how do you pick? There’s so many gorgeous girls.”
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