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Though her face has graced the covers of magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar, model Angela Lindvall remains anonymous.</p><p> Except for her height, you’d never associate Lindvall, who grew up in Lee’s Summit, with high fashion — or any kind of fashion for that matter.</p><p> And what’s even stranger, she likes it that way. </p><p>“Even when I first started modeling I told my agents, ‘OK, I’ll do this, but I don’t want to be on the cover of anything.’ I didn’t realize that being on the cover is what made you famous; it’s what gets you beauty contracts and all you want. I don’t walk around with my hair done and high heels. So nobody would know.”</p><p> They’re probably going to know when “Project Runway All Stars” premieres at 8 p.m. Thursday. As hostess and one of the judges of the show — which features favorites from the network’s previous “Project Runway” episodes — Lindvall’s face will be front and center.</p><p> She’s aware that might change her life. </p><p>“I’m nervous about being out there and being recognized because I’m kind of a hermit,” she says. “I’m trying to take a positive look on it. One, I hardly ever leave home and my little community already knows me because it’s a little village, and that’s no problem. It’s primarily in airports (that I’m recognized).”</p><p> There’s not much that frightens Lindvall, who became a model when her sister Michelle talked her into signing up for a fashion show in Kansas City when she was 14.</p><p> “I was a serious tomboy and my oldest sister, she used to watch those beauty pageants and she was like, ‘Oh, Dad, I want to do this.’ My grandmother passed away and left some money, so Dad enrolled the two of us in a modeling school in Missouri” — Hoffman International Agency. “And secretly — even though I was a tomboy — I kind of enjoyed it because we learned how to put outfits together.</p><p> “It was kind of an etiquette school as well, so we learned basic etiquette and then learned how to do hair and makeup and put these outfits together and did a little runway show. And agents from all around the world came to watch. They were going to choose who got to go where, and I did not even consider myself a candidate. I didn’t know a thing about the fashion industry. I didn’t know you had to be tall. I certainly was not the pretty girl in high school. I was the awkward one. … </p><p>“When they called my name I was completely shocked. So I was invited to go to New York and chose an agency.”</p><p> She waited six months and at 17 moved to New York on her own and began high fashion work. “I grew up really quickly. I now say I’m getting younger as I’m getting older,” she laughs.</p><p> “You’re really exposed to aspects of society that most people aren’t. So it also gave me a real sense of what’s real to me. I thank my parents for raising me in a humbler, moral way that kept me connected to my roots and the people I grew up with,” she says.</p><p> “I have been exposed to all this, but I’ve made a point to remember where I come from, who I am and know what’s important. OK, it might be fun to put on a ball gown and go to a ball — not many women get to do that — but this isn’t what quantifies what life is about. It was my children (who were) a big part of making that clear to me,” says Lindvall.</p><p> She was 21 when she became pregnant with her first son. </p><p>“I’ve got to say that was the best thing that ever happened to me because all of a sudden my life wasn’t centered around this career that didn’t necessarily move me from a passionate place. When I had my son everything made sense.”</p><p> While she realized that modeling was a rare opportunity, she says she felt like an outsider. </p><p>“I didn’t care about makeup. I didn’t care about clothes. … There were all these crazy fashion people and it was, ‘Where do I belong in all this?’ ”</p><p> Now the mother of two boys, 6 and 9, Lindvall is also exploring other possibilities. She’s taking Kundalini yoga teacher training, has a line of jewelry on QVC and has appeared a time or two in the movies.</p><p> Mostly what she loves is being at home, growing vegetables in her garden and being with her children. She and her husband are separated. </p><p>“We don’t cohabitate,” she explains, “but he lives five minutes away. He’s a great father but we didn’t make a great husband and wife together.”</p><p> Would she be willing to marry again? </p><p>“All the career stuff has happened really easily, but a domestic partner would be great. I’m willing to try it again. I have a potential one in mind but I’m not rushing anything.
Source: Kansas City Star
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I don't walk around with my hair done and high heels. So nobody would know.” They're probably going to know when “Project Runway All Stars” premieres at 8 pm Thursday. As hostess and one of the judges of the show — which features favorites from the ...
