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Kim Basinger Bio:

What's Her Story: Kim was just sixteen when she entered the 'Athens Junior Miss' contest and won. From there, she went on to win the 'Junior Miss Georgia' title, and traveled to New York to compete in the national 'Junior Miss' pageant. While there, she met fashion modeling magnate Eileen Ford, who on the spot offered Kim a contract with her renowned Ford Modeling Agency. Though she initially declined Ford's offer, hoping to pursue a career either in singing or acting, the young beauty queen had a change of heart when she got back home to Georgia, and promptly returned to New York. By her twentieth birthday, Basinger was a top model raking in $1,000 a day (a phenomenal sum at the time) doing everything from magazine covers to shampoo ads. Basinger moved to Los Angeles in 1976 to pursue an acting career. After spending her first six months in the city living at a motel overlooking the Hollywood Freeway, Basinger broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as Charlie's Angels.