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Elsa Benitez Biography
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A lot of modelling gigs poured in for her, first in Mexico, where her career began and then, in the United States followed by Europe. In 1996, Elsa Benitez appeared three times on the cover of Vogue Italy – in April, August and September.
When the site supermodels-online.com was established in 1998, Elsa Benitez was featured as a rising star. Since then, she was credited as one of the world’s top supermodels. She has been seen on countless magazine covers and has been chosen as Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model for the year 2001. She has also graced the covers of many top fashion magazines which includes Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Clair.
Elsa Benitez is one of the famous models of Victoria’s Secret. Her face is almost everywhere you look. This Latin beauty has walked down the cat walk of the biggest fashion designers and is set to become the next biggest Latin supermodel.
Elsa Benitez also became the spokesperson for Budweiser and Bud Light and appeared in ads for the Taco Bell fast-food chain and its new stuffed called burrito. One television commercial for the said product showed her in a dream sequence where she was seen walking past two men, who fell in love with the burrito she was carrying, not with her. The San Francisco based advertising agency acknowledged that Elsa Benitez has helped the product earn quick recognition with fickle fast-food customers. It also considered her as the ideal spokesperson because she could perfectly embody the essence of the product.
Elsa Benitez stands 5’10 and her hair is dark brown. Benitez seemed to drop out of the public eye after when she married NBA player Rony Seikaly, whom she had met in 1997. Since then, she divided her time between their homes in Miami and New York City. Rony, who has retired from the New Jersey Nets in 2000, was nonplussed by the attention his wife usually receives in public. He is always proud to say that he is the luckiest guy in the world because he married a woman who is not just beautiful on the outside but also on the inside. The couple had one child whom they named Mila, born in February 2003.
