Dree Hemingway

By Ines Mendoza

While people think showbiz is run on money, deception and backstabbing - you'd be right. However, there is one other vital ingredient that you've forgotten to factor in, an ingredient that has fuelled the drinking, drug using, big city living lifestyle showbiz is famous for... nepotism!

That's right, it's who you know, not what you know. In the case of models that is almost ALWAYS the case. How can you go wrong? Famous, sexy genes teamed with access to massive wads of cash and social networking, how can you not produce famous offspring?

Today's is none other than the delightful Dree Louise Hemingway Crisman, who is not only a fashion model and actress with more names than Prince, but is also the daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway and Stephen Crisman.

Oh yeah - and the great granddaughter of author Ernest Hemingway. That ol' chestnut, third generation nepotism!

Dree Hemingway

Hemingway V 3.0 (or Dree as we've come to know and love her as) grew up in Idaho and, not surprisingly attended Ernest Hemingway Elementary School. How that would've worked, we're not sure. All I know is that my mum was occasionally a substitute teacher at my primary school and I still don't hear the end of it to this day from people who I've long since tried to forget.

But I digress.

It wasn't long, and likely a foregone conclusion, that Dree eventually packed up and moved to Bev-er-ley... Hills that it. Yep, young Dree enrolled in a Californian middle school where she lived in Westlake Village. During this awkward high school period of her life, she went to Oaks Christian High School but only stayed for two years or so before moving away in order to pursue her modelling career.

And, boy, what a decsion!

Dree Hemingway has already found work with numerous modelling agencies including the Winter catwalk show for Givenchy in Paris in 2009. This was soon followed with catwalk work for Calvin Klein in New York, as well as opening the Topshop Summer 2010 show in London.

Other fancy pants places also paying her wads of cash to literally walk in a straight line include Shiatzy Chen, House of Holland, Karl Lagerfeld, Giles, Chanel and Rue du Mail.

As is often the case with these youngsters, Dree was named as the face of Gianfranco Ferré due to her possessing the "free and fearless nature of an utterly feminine woman" her bosses claim.

2010 proved to be a fantastic year for Hemingway, as she was also signed on for a role with the Salvatore Ferragamo perfume called Attimo, as well as popping up in campaigns for the likes of Gucci, Jean Paul Gautier, Valentino, H&M, Chanel, Paco Rabanne and A.Y.

Of course, the life of a model wouldn't be complete without entering the realm of moving pictures - so Dree Hemingway decided to star in The Vaccines' video single "I Always Knew" and no doubt this will either lead to an acting gig in a Michael Bay movie... or a drug addiction.

Either way, she will be replaced eventually by someone younger and prettier, which she will grow resentful of, and wonder how her life became so vain. Don't worry, these types usually find god eventually, so it's not all downhill (but most of it is).

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