Josie Maran was born in Menlo Park, California to a father of Russian and Polish descent, and a mother of Dutch, French, and German ancestry. She began modeling part-time after an agent spotted her at a local barbecue restaurant at the age of 12. Maran continued a more dedicated career after graduating from the Castilleja School. Considered by some to be too short for runway modeling at 5 feet 7 inches tall, her career consists mostly of editorial modeling and advertising/image modeling.
Signed at age 17 with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles, Josie appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998, and she was the featured Guess? Girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. After building a resumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including a music video for the popular boy-band the Backstreet Boys, Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City. In 1999 she landed a multi-year deal with Maybelline following in the footsteps of her idol Christy Turlington. She appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for three consecutive years—2000, 2001, 2002.
Pretty Maran
"California native model and actress Josie Maran was launched to supermodel by being a spokesperson for Mabelline cosmetics. The chestnut haired beauty has a notable resume which includes modeling gigs for Guess?, Marie Claire, Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. She also established herself as an actress."
"Here is a highly accomplished model in the non-traditional sense. Although she is slim and relatively short like Kate Moss, she is not a runway model or fashion model that most of us associate the word with. Instead, Josie is an "everyday" type of model, wearing clothes normal people would wear themselves, and gracing covers of various women's magazines. She's a much used pretty face in many television commercials and magazine advertisements. In other words, she's not outworldly looking like your average supermodel. But that's not to say she isn't beautiful. She's strikingly so and took my breath away the first time I saw her in a Backstreet Boys music video. She stands out and righteously so."
Who's That Girl?
Josie Maran, with the scoop on her Glamour cover
Your very first magazine cover was Glamour's June 1998 issue. Remember it?
"Totally! I was living in Los Angeles at the time and flew into New York for the shoot. It was a big deal--my first one--but Stewart [Shining, the photographer] said, 'You can do this.' The mood was fun so I was like, 'OK,' and it was so easy! It was a perfect modeling moment. To work for Glamour is like being with family!"
Is there a certain "uniform" you wear to shoots?
"Something comfortable. I know they're going to be dressing me, but still, I try to be a little bit fashionable so people don't think I'm totally out of the scene! There's nothing else I need--just my phone."
Is it true that you just finished filming a movie?
"Yes, I just shot my first film, in Montreal--a low-budget independent movie, The Mallory Effect. It's a dark comedy, and I play Mallory. It's slated for release next year."
What do you want people to think when they see this month's Glamour cover?
"Just that it's fresh and beautiful. And happy and alive."
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Where'd you get that dress?
When Glamour editor Karen Hanes de Larrain spotted this Oscar de la Renta Pink Label dress, she immediately knew it was cover-ready. Josie agrees: "It felt like it was made for my body. It would be fun to wear it to a premiere."
JOSIE MARAN has landed some of the world's most competitive modeling gigs: the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the Victoria's Secretcatalog, and cover after cover of Glamour,Maxim, Self, and other big-name glossies. These days, though, the porcelain-faced beauty, 33, focuses on promoting her eco-makeup brand (josiemarancosmetics.com) and raising her 5-year-old daughter, Rumi Joon. A chunk of the proceeds from her company goes to a variety of charities, including ones that help protect polar bears and argan forests.
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