Laetitia Casta represents an ideal feminine beauty. Standing only 5'8" (172 cm), with a curvy frame, she has little in common with typical waif models. She says, "When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth... I am very proud that I have stayed as I was. And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean."
When she was fifteen, Laetitia was discovered while vacationing with her family on a beach in Corsica, also named "the island of beauty" in France. She was making sand castles with her little sister when a photographer and model booker for 'Madison Models' agency approached her. They handed her father a business card and an invitation to bring his daughter to Paris for some test shots. Suspicious at first, her parents eventually caved to Laetitia's pleas.

Within weeks of Laetitia's first shot, she was walking the runway for Jean-Paul Gaultier. Having never worn make-up, she screamed when she caught her reflection in the mirror. By the time she turned sixteen, she had landed three magazine covers. On a trip to Paris in 1994, Paul Marciano saw her photos and launched her career in the United States as a 'Guess Girl'.

Until she turned 21, Laetitia lived at home with her parents. Now she shares an apartment in London with her older brother, Jean-Baptiste. Her favorite activities include painting, writing, rollerblading, going to the cinema, go-carting with her brother and dancing to disco music. Proving not to be just a pretty face, Laetitia holds a brown belt in Judo!