Daria Werbowy

Daria remains intensely devoted to her family. To date, she has not married but has stated publicly that she intends to marry and raise a large family in the future.

She currently lives in Cork, Ireland but maintains an apartment in New York City. Her current ambition is to sail solo around the world in the ‘Volvo Ocean Race’.

Daria was born on November 19, 1983 in Krakow, Poland to Ukraininan parents named Daniel and Anna Werbowy. She has two siblings Orest and Oksana.

In 1986, Daria's family moved to Mississauga near Toronto, Canada although none of them spoke any English.

Daria is very close to her father, and considers him to be her best friend. She credits her father for encouraging her to work as a model after her first professional bookings were unsuccessful.

As a young girl, her favorite activities were snowboarding, beach volleyball, ice hockey, rugby and basketball and she considered herself to be a quiet, solitary child who was very shy.

She attended ‘Saint Sofia Ukrainian Catholic Elementary School’ followed by ‘Casthra Park Secondary School’ in Mississauga, where she studied visual arts.

In 1998, a schoolmate's mother was the head of a Toronto-based modeling agency and Daria spent one year doing modeling work for her without much success.

In 2001, she moved to New York City and began to work for ‘Elite Models’ but failed to achieve much traction. She then spent six months in Greece and other European countries but was unable to find any lucrative work as a model. The next year, she returned home to Canada and worked briefly as a sailing instructor.

In 2003, her father encouraged her to give modeling another try and then her agent landed her a gig modeling for ‘Prada’, which was the start to her meteoric international career. In the same year, she appeared on five ‘Vogue Italy’ covers and did work for ‘Jil Sander’, ‘Prada’, ‘Alessandro D'Acqua’, ‘Nina Ricci’ and ‘Chloe’.

She was the last model photographed by the legendary photographer Helmut Newton before his death in 2004.

Throughout her career she has modeled for Alberta Ferretti, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, D&G, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, amongst other elite fashion brands.

Daria is best known for her work as a spokeswoman for ‘Lancôme’, a position that she has held for nearly a decade, the highlight of her long career as a Top 10 elite supermodel.