Free Preview: Playmate of the Month February 1985 - Cherie Witter
There are only a few professions in which you can be considered a seasoned veteran before you become an adult. Chess master and Mousketeer come immediately to mind. And, of course, fashion model. Indeed, as a model, you can be a phenom, a rookie, a seasoned vet and all washed up in the course of your senior year in high school. So those who survive, like Cherie Witter, are special. <br> The reason is that modeling takes, as Cherie would say, "a major amount" of dedication. Especially in an area that's somewhat off the beaten track for the fashion industry. The towns where Cherie grew up - Marysville, Everett, Edmonds, Bellevue -- appear only on fairly detailed maps of the hilly farm and forest land, lakes and seashores surrounding Seattle. Although it's a picturesque area, it hasn't been a center of fashion since the boom days of the Klondike gold rush. Of course, few people today wear miners' boots. And with the gold all but played out, people in Seattle have been forced to build ships and planes, catch fish and harvest timber. <br> Cherie began her career in her freshman year of high school, putting on noontime fashion shows for the other girls in the school. By the age of 17, she had enrolled in modeling school in Bellevue. By 18, she had been signed by an agency in New York, and a few months later she was in Paris. <br> "Paris when I was 18," Cherie recalls, "was really an experience for me. Compared with Everett, Paris was like a dream. I'd never been far from home...
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