Niki Taylor Is The Woman You'd Give Your Undivided Attention To

Nikki Taylor has a supreme hotness that we can all agree on. One look and there you are. A part of you has turned to stone, and your face will show an awe that even your closest friend won’t be able to describe.

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Who is Nikki Taylor

Niki Taylor isn’t just a supermodel—she’s a Guinness World Record–holding super‑seller. At 16, she locked in a six‑figure contract (yes, while most of us were still locking our diaries), and a few years later she pulled the unheard‑of hat trick—well, six‑trick—of landing the covers of Vogue, Allure, Elle, Self, Shape, and Marie Claire all in the very same month. Entertainment Weekly cheekily dubbed the feat “Niki Six,” and no one has beaten it since.

Need more name‑dropping? She’s appeared on more Seventeen and Allure covers than any other model ever. She even flew to Hong Kong in 1997—during the dramatic British‑to‑Chinese handover—to strut as the first (and only) supermodel at Chinese Fashion Week. Back home, Nashville tapped her as cultural ambassador for its “Visit Music City” campaign, because who better to sell a town than the woman who can apparently sell anything?

And sell she does. Marketers talk about the “Niki effect”—her face alone has moved billions of dollars’ worth of products, sparked entire multi‑year ad blitzes, and bumped magazine newsstand sales. Her calendars? Instant best‑sellers—and the only supermodel pin‑ups Wal‑Mart ever stocked, a feat in retail diplomacy.

Bottom line: if Niki Taylor’s image is on it, expect it to fly off the shelves.

Her Early Life

Niki Taylor was born on March 5, 1975, in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She grew up in nearby Pembroke Pines, where her dad, Ken, worked as a highway patrol lieutenant and her mom, Barbara, was a photographer. Niki attended Cooper City High School, balancing the usual teenage life with what would soon become a skyrocketing modeling career.

Career Journey

Niki Taylor’s modeling journey took off when she was just 13. After signing with Irene Marie Models in South Florida, she met photographer Jean Renard, who quickly saw her potential and became her manager. Not long after, Niki won the Fresh Faces contest in New York City, along with a $500,000 modeling contract—an extraordinary start for a teenager from Florida.

By 14, she had already landed her first magazine cover with Seventeen (August 1989). A year later, she made headlines again by gracing the cover of Vogue, becoming the second-youngest model ever to do so at just 15—only Brooke Shields had done it younger.

In 1991, that same 15-year-old with the all-American charm and dazzling smile made her runway debut in Paris for Thierry Mugler, wearing a dramatic latex silhouette alongside supermodel legends.

At 16, Niki made history again, becoming the youngest person ever named one of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People. Then came the contract with CoverGirl—she was the first spokesmodel under 18 to sign such a major deal, and she quickly became the fresh face of their national campaign.

Her face soon became a fixture in advertising, appearing in campaigns for powerhouse brands like Thierry Mugler, Escada, Liz Claiborne, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Anne Klein, L’Oréal, Gap, Lee Jeans, and Pantene. At one point, she even had six billboards in Times Square at the same time—three of them stayed up all year long, a record still untouched.

Then came May 1996. In an unprecedented media moment, Niki appeared on the covers of six major American fashion and fitness magazines in the same month—Vogue, Elle, Allure, Marie Claire, Self, and Shape. The press called it the “Niki Six,” and it became one of the most iconic moments in modeling history.

Niki also made waves in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, appearing in the 1997 and 1998 editions and on the cover of the 1998 swimsuit calendar. Sports Illustrated even released three special behind-the-scenes video features of her swimsuit shoots: one with Naomi Campbell in 1997, another with two models in 1998, and one solo spotlight in 1999.

After a break from the spotlight, Niki staged an impressive comeback in 2016. She returned to fashion with features and covers in Paper, Flaunt, British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and American Vogue, and modeled for designers like Marc Jacobs and Jennifer Fisher. In 2017, she was back on the best-dressed lists in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Hello!, and WWD.

In a full-circle moment, Niki returned as the face of CoverGirl in April 2021—more than two decades after first representing the brand. It was proof that true icons never go out of style.

Facts and Trivia

On April 29, 2001, life threw Niki Taylor a plot twist worthy of a soap opera: a car crash in Atlanta. Her boyfriend at the time, Chad Renegar, looked away to answer his cellphone, lost control, and slammed into a utility pole. Niki was belted in, but the impact was brutal—collapsed lung, damaged liver, and a spine now held together by two steel rods. She spent six weeks in a coma and another month stuck in bed, proving once again that supermodels are still very much human (even if their recovery stories read like medical miracles).

Surviving that ordeal super‑charged her passion for wellness. “Fitness and wellness aren’t fads—they’re life insurance,” she likes to say. Niki now uses her social‑media channels to dish out fashion tips, workout routines, and pep talks about living your best life (no runway required).

Before Instagram was even a glimmer, she moonlighted as an on‑camera host for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, covered red carpets for NBC, and briefly steered the chaos on MTV’s Fashionably Loud. In 2005 she bottled her sunny optimism in a fragrance called “Begin by Niki Taylor” and launched the Begin Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Business—because why stop at smelling great when you can also empower entrepreneurs?

Fast‑forward to 2011, and Niki joined The Celebrity Apprentice. She crushed the first task, netting $35,000 for the American Red Cross, but was memorably “You’re fired!” two weeks later (hey, even icons get board‑room booted). She still popped back in to help the guys’ team on a later episode—because teamwork, people.

Love life? Buckle up: Niki met NASCAR driver Burney Lamar at an autograph session in January 2006. Three dates later, they were engaged. They tied the knot on December 27, 2006, at La Jolla’s Grande Colonial Hotel, asking guests to skip the gravy boats and donate to Victory Junction Gang Camp for chronically ill kids instead. Fast cars, fast love, and an even faster recovery—that’s Niki Taylor’s kind of speed.