Model, Interrupted

Just when she was starting to become famous over here via Victoria’s Secret and the E! channel, Laetitia Casta has now all but disappeared.

It was announced last year that Laetitia would be quitting the catwalk to pursue her film career and motherhood — she just had her first kid today — but since Laetitia is known primarily for her modeling work (at least in the U.S. — her films have never made it beyond Europe), her budding fame lost most of its momentum before it ever became universal the way it did for the other Victoria’s Secret models.

Given more time, her Playboy-like curves could have changed the emaciated face of modeling. Instead, her name is now better known to internet geeks than to the world at large.