The Beauty of Retrospect, Part Nine: More Karen Graham Photos

Sooner or later, I always revisit seventies supermodel Karen Graham, my first celebrity crush. :-D

The picture above, from 1973, may or may not have come from one of her Estée Lauder ads, but I actually found it in the archives of, of all places, a Russian fashion magazine!

These two pictures are from Estée Lauder ads, taken by the Chicago photographer Victor Skrebneski. The one above is from 1976, the one below from 1981.

While not an actress - her original ambition was neither modeling nor acting but teaching French - the Mississippi-born-and-bred Karen Graham had many people believe she was the glamorous woman in the ads, even though she was and remains far more down to earth and simple than these photos suggest.

But the class she exhibited in these poses was very much for real. :-)