Jean Shrimpton


Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the worlds first supermodels. She appeared on numerous covers including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Elle, Ladies Home Journal, Newsweek, and Time magazines. In 2012, Shrimpton was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential fashion icons of all time. She starred alongside Paul Jones in the 1967 film Privilege.

Shrimptons other most celebrated romance was with actor Terence Stamp. In 1979, she married photographer Michael Cox at the registry office in Penzance, Cornwall when she was four months pregnant with their son Thaddeus, who was born that same year. They own the Abbey Hotel in Penzance, now managed by Thaddeus and his family. Her younger sister Chrissie is also an actress, linked to both Mick Jagger and Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.

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