It is surprising to know that top supermodels were discovered in unusual places like the grocery store and McDonald’s. For instance, we have seen models like Miranda Kerr discovered at a local competition, and supermodels like Candice Swanepoel at a flea market. Here are some contains incredible stories of how some top models were discovered and given their first break.

1.    Cara Delevingne is a close friend of Genevieve Garner, the daughter of Sarah Doukas. Sarah Doukas is the person who discovered Kate Moss and introduced Cara Delevingne to the world of modeling.

2.    Miranda Kerr participated in the Dolly magazine’s modeling competition in 1997. The Australian model has enjoyed a tremendous rise since she left the competition and became a Victoria’s Secret Angel down the line.

3.    Gisele Bundchen was born and bred in the sleepy town of Horizontina, Southern Brazil. She was spotted while having lunch at McDonald’s on a school excursion to Sao Paolo. It was her first time visiting Sao Paolo.

4.    While on holiday in Cape Town, Behati Prinsloo was approached by a man in a grocery store. She ignored the request of the stranger, because she didn’t doesn’t like his face. Behati would later visit the city for another holiday in the same year and was discovered by Sarah Doukas’s daughter, the woman who scouted Kate Moss. Within a short period, Behati was a model walking in Paris and Milan.

5.    As an example of a fashion fairytale story, Natalia Vodianova was brought up in a low-income family in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She was seen selling fruits at a market stall. She has become a famous philanthropist as well as a model and actress. She is the founder of Naked Heart, a charity ball that raises funds for safe playgrounds in Russia for kids and families with children with special needs.

6.    Kate Moss was seen at the JFK airport in New York City while she was flying back to her base in London after a family holiday in the Bahamas when she was 14. This incredible story has become a modeling story that has inspired millions of models.

7.    As a 16-year-old girl, Cindy Crawford was captured by a local photographer while working on a farm during her school holidays in Illinois, Chicago. Her picture was used for the town newspaper.

8.    At the young age of sixteen, Lily Aldridge was scouted at a school carnival.

9.    Kendra Spears registered for the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest in 2008 as a MySpace contestant. Recently, she announced her engagement to a prince.

10.     Apparently, McDonald’s is the perfect place for model scouts. A model scout discovered Anna Selezneva at a Moscow McDonald’s restroom at the tender age of seventeen.

11.     Jourdan Dunn was at a grocery store in Primark in London’s Hammersmith when she was discovered.

12.     A modeling agent discovered Claudia Schiffer at a Dusseldorf nightclub before becoming the ambassador of fashion brands such as Guess and Chanel. Her ambition was to be a lawyer and work with her father but chose the path of modeling instead.

13.     Truly meant to be a supermodel, Ambrosio started her modeling journey at the Elite Model Look competition at the age of fourteen, where an international agency discovered her.

14.     While she was walking down the street in her hometown, Panambi, Brazil, Caroline Trentini was spotted by a modeling agent. The same agent who discovered her also discovered the supermodel, Gisele Bündchen.

15.     Julia Nobis lived in Rose Bay and was waiting at a Bondi Junction was spotted by a model scout adorning her school uniform. Nobis once said that she never thought a bus stop could be a magical place.

16.     Rose Huntington-Whiteley did does not want to be in the public eye as she pursued a career in the fashion industry. She said, “I became a model because I wanted to work in the fashion world”. She said she desired to do styling or make-up but was selected as a model.

17.     At a flea market, Candice Swanepoel was spotted while shopping.

18.     Bianca Balti was an employee at a supermarket as she was using the money to finance her university education when she was spotted.

19.     Chrissy Teigen was first discovered as a worker in a surf store.

20.     While she was attending the Oktoberfest carnival in her hometown, German model, Julia Stegner was discovered.

21.     Suvi Koponen was the winner of a televised modeling competition held in her native country in 2005.

22.     Lily Donaldson was spotted shopping in Camden, London with her friend on a drizzling day. She was discovered by a model scout when she was finding shelter from the rain at the age of sixteen.

23.     An Italian model scout discovered Carmen Kass when she was shopping in a grocery store in Estonia.

24.     Shalom Harlow was a teenage guest at a concert for The Cure in Toronto when she was discovered.

25.     Linda Evangelista was a participant at the 1978 Miss Teen Niagara beauty pageant when an Elite Model Management agent discovered her.

26.     Abbey Lee Kershaw was the winner of the Girlfriend magazine Model Search in 2004.

27.     While on a shopping trip with her mom at a local shopping mall, Adriana Lima was discovered at the age of thirteen. Two years later, she emerged as the winner of Brazil’s Ford Supermodel of the World Search.

28.     As a participant at the National Irish dancing competition, Canadian model Coco Rocha was discovered. In 2007, Jean Paul Gaultier once told her to perform her Irish dance on his runway.

29.     Lily Cole was spotted at a shopping mall in London’s Soho. She would later graduate from Cambridge University with double first class honors in the history of art and work as an actress.

30.     Liv Tyler discovered Irina Kulikova as she was in a Moscow restaurant with an IMG Scout when she saw Irina having a meal with her mom. 

31.     Naomi Campbell was an aspiring ballerina when she was spotted while window-shopping at London’s Covent Garden.

32.     Karlie Kloss was a participant at a charity fashion show organized by a shopping centre in St Louis, Missouri.