Meet Karen Duffy, born May 23, 1962, an American model, TV personality, and actress. Known as “Duff,” she’s also a writer and certified hospital chaplain.
She was crowned Coney Island Mermaid Queen back in the day and named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful Women” in ’93. In ’95, she got hit with a rare form of sarcoidosis called neurosarcoidosis. Since then, she’s penned two books about livin’ with chronic pain and reps the Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Pain Patients.
Meet Leonore “Leo” Julia Roberta Cortes Holmström, born Bartsch on September 14, 1988, in Göttingen, Germany. She’s a German pop singer and songwriter. From 2008 to 2012, she was rockin’ with the pop group Queensberry. In 2014, she teamed up for the duo Resaid. Since 2019, she’s been droppin’ music under her first name, Leonore.
Meet Alexandra Ndolo, born August 13, 1986, a left-handed épée fencer from Germany who flipped to rep Kenya in 2022. She’s headin’ to the Paris Olympics in 2024 as Kenya’s lone fencer.
Meet Oxana (Oksana) Voznyuk from St. Petersburg, named Russian Playboy’s Girl of the Month for June 2012. Not a model, just a chick with bangin’ stats (bust-waist-hips: 89-62-92 cm), managin’ a chain of clothing stores.
Meet Sabina Kontor, born September 15, 1992, a Polish social media star and model. She’s got over 400,000 followers on her sabikontor Instagram account.
Grew up lovin’ pageants, hittin’ up live events with her fam. Snagged third runner-up in the Miss Polski 2015 pageant. Born in Rzeszow, Poland, she’s in the same league as other pageant queens like Zara Holland.
Meet Kristin Cavallari (born January 5, 1987), a TV star who blew up on the reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off, The Hills. She’s also a hustler, kickin’ off her own jewelry biz, Uncommon James, in 2017. In 2018, she started rockin’ her own reality show, Very Cavallari.
She first popped up on Laguna Beach as a high school junior. She became a voice for PETA and teamed up with Mark Ballas for season 13 of Dancing with the Stars.
In 2013, she tied the knot with NFL quarterback Jay Cutler. They had three kids—Camden, Jaxon, and Saylor—before splittin’ in 2020. Before Jay, she dated Matt Leinart, Brody Jenner, and Stephen Colletti. In 2020, she had a quick thing with Jeff Dye. She started seein’ country singer Chase Rice in 2021, but they called it quits later that year. In February 2024, she went public with Mark Estes while chillin’ in Mexico, but they broke up by September.
Her romance with Stephen Colletti in the early days of Laguna Beach stirred up some drama with co-star Lauren Conrad.
Meet Lana Asanin, a German actress and TV star, born September 29 in Frankfurt, Germany. She kicked things off by snaggin’ the Miss Montenegro crown at 17. Right after, she was globetrottin’ as a model, hittin’ spots like Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Asia, and the US. Lana’s graced covers of mags like FHM, Maxim, People, Cosmopolitan, and Avon.
She got her big TV break in the Philippines, starrin’ in 5 shows and 2 flicks, most made just for her, includin’ some E! Entertainment gigs. She’s been in commercials for Nescafe, LG Electronics, Shell, and Coca-Cola. Now livin’ in the US, Lana’s been polishin’ her skills in hostin’, modelin’, and actin’ while flexin’ her fluency in English, German, and Serbian.