Cheryl Tiegs

Cheryl Tiegs: Biography in Details

Who is Cheryl Tiegs?

The American model and fashion designer, Cheryl Tiegs is famous as the first American supermodel.

Similarly, she is famous for appearing many times in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and TIME.

Likewise, her Pink Bikini poster became an iconic image in 1970s pop culture in the year 1978.

Cheryl Tiegs: Age(75), Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Nationality, Ethnicity

Cheryl Tiegs was born on 25th September 1947 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, U.S.

She is the daughter of Phyllis and Theodore Tiegs. Her parents were auto-assembly linemen turned funeral directors.

Her family moved to Alhambra, California, in 1952. Similarly, her nationality is American whereas her ethnicity is unknown.

Cheryl Tiegs: Education, School/College, University

Talking about her education, she attended Alhambra High School.

She posed for a swimsuit ad for a bathing suit manufacturer Cole of California; the ad appeared in Seventeen.

Likewise, she enrolled as an English major at California State University, Los Angeles. But she left college before her junior year to pursue her career.

Cheryl Tiegs: Professional Life, Career

The American supermodel, Cheryl Tiegs started her career when she was 17. After that, the editorial staff at Glamour saw Cole’s bathing suit ad.

She was booked on a shoot in Saint Thomas with Ali MacGraw which resulted in her first Glamour cover. In the same year, she made the covers of Seventeen and Elle.

Likewise, she subsequently appeared on the covers of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, among others.

She was the first model who appeared twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Talking about the covers she did, she made the cover of People four times, the cover for TIME three times, and the All-American Model cover story in 1978.

Similarly, she signed the $1.5 million two-year contract with Cover Girl cosmetics which was recorded as the biggest contract ever.

In the year 1980, she launched her signature line of clothing and accessories for Sears.

Her collection neared $1 billion in sales by 1989. Furthermore, she is active in the philanthropic community.

She serves on the Board of Directors of C.O.A.C.H. for Kids and the Earth Conservation Corps.

Cheryl Tiegs: Shows

In the year 2012, she was a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice which benefitted the Farrah Fawcett Foundation.

Similarly, she has appeared on NBC’s Just Shoot Me and Oxygen’s Girls Behaving Badly.

Likewise, as a recurring role, she portrayed herself on Family Guy. Likewise, she hosted a 13-part travel adventure series Pathfinders: Exotic Journeys.

Some other shows she appeared on include True Beauty, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Access Hollywood, Extra, and many others.

Her film credit is Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Cheryl Tiegs: Awards, Nominations

Cheryl Tiegs has not received any awards any nominations yet.

She was included on People’s 2008 50 Most Beautiful People list. Also, she was featured on the 100 Hottest Women of All Time.

Cheryl Tiegs: Net Worth($30 M), Salary, Income

The net worth of the American model, Cheryl Tiegs is around 30 million dollars as of 2023.

After starting her career at the age of seventeen, she might have earned a huge amount of money. There is no information about her salary.

Similarly, her house in Bel Air, California placed on the market in May 2015 for $15 million.

Cheryl Tiegs: Rumors and Controversy/Scandal

On Sports Illustrated’s first plus-size swimsuit issue cover model, Cheryl said that she thinks that the acceptance of full-figured women sends a bad message.

She referenced to the plus-size model Ashley Graham’s appearance on one of three 2016 SI Swimsuit Issue covers.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size

Talking about the body measurements, Cheryl Tiegs has a height of 5 feet 10 inches and weighs around 56 kg.

Her body measurements are 34-24-34 inches and her shoe size is 9.

Similarly, her hair color is Blonde and she has blue eyes.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Cheryl Tiegs is active on Twitter.

She has around 9.2k on Twitter. But she is not active on Facebook and Instagram.

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