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TV personality Vanessa Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, on the Clark Air Force Base, in the Philippines and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1997 she became Miss Teen South Carolina, and the next year she was Miss Teen USA. Then in 2003 she landed the job of VJ on MTV's popular "Total Request Live." Vanessa has been romantically linked to Nick Lachey and Yankees Shortstop Derek Jeter.
Actress Vanessa Minnillo grew up as an army brat, living in Germany, Japan, Florida, Nevada, and California before her family settled in South Carolina. After her parents divorced when she was six, Minnillo lived with her mother and stepfather at the Air Force base in Turkey where he was stationed, before returning to the States when Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait. Thereafter, Minnillo began living with her father and stepmother in South Carolina, where she settled in and began competing in the pageant circuit. She won the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2000, and continued to model and host other pageants.

In 2003, she became a host of MTV's Total Request Live, where she would continue to work until 2007. She also made headlines that year both for being seen on the arm of singer Nick Lachey, and for appearing in the movie Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

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