Antz Pantz Model Michelle Leslie
Antz Pantz Model Michelle Leslie
By Michelle Wiese Bockmann
Antz Pantz model Michelle Leslie's recent success as an in-demand model was no overnight accident.It followed years of beauty pageants, shopping centre catwalks and supplementing her income with work in nightclubs after she dropped out of a Catholic private school at 15 to pursue a full-time modelling career.
After Leslie left Sacred Heart College, near the Adelaide beachside suburb of Glenelg, she found it tough and at one time worked as a "doorbitch" at a nightclub.
She also appeared on the Search for a Supermodel program on the Ten Network in 2000, was a finalist in The Look competition, and was first runner-up at a Miss World Australia pageant in Darwin in 2000.
But she was catapulted on to the international catwalk three years ago when the Filipina and Australian heritage that gave her exotic Eurasian features was suddenly the in-demand look, especially sought in Asian countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong. Leslie had just completed an assignment in Singapore before she flew to Bali for a holiday.
Best known as the face of Antz Pantz and Crystelle lingerie, she had modelled as Michelle Leslie in Australia, but was also known as Michelle Lee in Asia.
She divided her time between Sydney and New York, with regular runway work in Asia, recently completing part of the Myer spring-summer catalogue, and featuring in a television commercial for department store Target.
Although she works in an industry where drug use is common, Leslie's family reject any suggestion she uses drugs.
"I'm a family friend and have seen Michelle grow up and everything like that, and she's the last person I would think to be involved in things like that because she is so careful with all her profession and (is a) very responsible and mature girl," said a family friend.
The woman, who declined to be identified, was comforting Leslie's parents, Violeta and Albert, who live in Glenelg North. Albert Leslie is an Olympian and assistant coach for Adelaide basketball team the 36ers.
Their daughter returned to Adelaide in December and talked of her hopes to establish a fashion label and a television career, having completed pilots for several projects. The 24-year-old lived with her new boyfriend, Scott Sutton, after breaking up with fellow Chic agency model Matt Ingham.
Source: The Australian
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