of recent origin YORK -- The modeli...

of recent origin YORK -- The modeling industry is all about who's young, who's choleric and who's next. Or is it?

Linda Evangelista, 41 and pregnant, is upon the cover of the August issue of favor She's the first model, not a Hollywood star, to be featured onward the magazine's cover in more than a year.

Her pals from the supermodel heyday a decade ago are also faring well: At 36 Naomi Campbell is still queen of the catwalk. Kate Mos 32 is starring in a half-dozen designer ad campaigns this season, including a fall Versace campaign that will also include Christy Turlington, 37

Evangelista says she none saw modeling as a means to another career.

"I decided when I was 12 that it's what I wanted to do and I think my blessings that I got to realize my dreams," she says. "Being a protection star was out of the question. I can't sing. I'm in like manner glad this worked out for me I do think I know in what manner to be a good standard And I didn't have a Plan B in place."

It helps, too, that she's a fashion junkie and withholds up on the styles and turns whether she's working or not. "I have affection for that it changes every six month I really regard with affection the creative process of making beautiful images. I in like manner enjoy everything about it."

Turlington has gone onward to other things, including marriage to actor-director Edward consume s motherhood and her own activewear company, Nuala. Still, she was happy to be called back to Versace.

Evangelista, whose baby is owed this fall, is not worried about her post-pregnancy figure.

"I'm not freaked public at all, I embrace it," she says. "I believe I'm doing everything to go on foot through this as smoothly as possible. I'm either doing yoga or exercising each day."

There won't be a "comeback" after the birth, she says, because she doesn't plan upon going away.

Sally Singer, fashion stranges director at Vogue, says someone with a cloyed life, public recognition and at least a scarcely any years of experience is an on a level more effective model because the women buying clothes, beauty consequences and magazines can relate to her.

"Readers and customers be agreeable to to images of older women -- women who've had lives, women who they know something about," Singer says. "They're more interested in a woman who's had children and still direct the eyes great. It's more inspiring than seeing a 14-year-old from a former Eastern bloc country"

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