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Alex Thompson (Born: June 30, 1975) Model and Fashion Stylist. She made her start in the Fashion industry as a teen age Model. She worked on National ad campaigns, walked the runway for International Designers. She has been most recently noted for her work as a Fashion Stylist and her breath taking photoshoots with famed photographer Kendal Carr.

Biography
Alex Thompson: was born in Manhattan, New York city in St. Vincents hospital and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. One parent Cuban and Trinidadian mix and the other from Cuba. Alex came from humble beginnings and her family stressed the importance of education and helping others on a daily basis. Growing up in Brooklyn surrounded by a rich Caribbean and Latin culture embedded in New York City, she understood all three of her cultures very well and has always felt blessed to have such an abundant backround and knowledge of self. This gave Alex the confidence she exudes to this very day from child hood. Alex Attended her first year of high school at Abraham Lincoln high in Brooklyn, then her family moved to the suburbs of Maryland where she finished high school at Paint Branch High. By the time Alex was a senior in high school she was getting high paying modeling jobs and traveling from Maryland to New York after being discovered my a scout from Next Model Management and introduced to founder Faith Kates. She was actually discovered in Washington, D.C's Georgetown at 16yrs old. At this point Alex was interested in becoming a Art/History major. As a very stylish teenager, Alex was always setting trends and expressing herself through her clothes and she had many admirers, and of course many followed her sense of style. At the age of 17 she met her first husband who was significantly older than she was, however provided a life for her she never knew, multi-million dollar home in Potomac, MD and fancy cars, staff for house keeping and cooking, designer clothes and shoes, but with her traveling and modeling and going to school, she only enjoyed these benefits infrequently. Alex decided to continue her Modeling full time and this caused a conflict in her marriage ending in divorce in 2002. She was left with a Condo in D.C and her career as a Fashion Model, so she build from that. In her mid 20s, single and confused about where she wanted to take her Modeling career and what she wanted to do in general, she took a break and traveled to Brazil for 2 months and the rest of the Caribbean. Alex fell in love with everything Brazilian. She came back to America with a new prospective on Fashion and beauty, also this is where she met her Publicist/Manager Adrienne Cabriello.