Crystal Renn was born on 18th June 1986 in Miami, Florida USA. She is a fashion model, best known for working campaigns for H&M, Dolce & Gabbana, Nordstorm and many others. Crystal has also done editorials for such magazines as Vogue, Elle, Glamour and Vanity Fair among others.
Have you ever wondered how rich Crystal Renn is? According to sources, it is estimated that Crystal Renn`s overall net worth is $6 million, an amount mostly acquired through her career as a fashion model. However, Renn is also recognized as an author, since she has released the book “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves” (2009), which also extended her overall net worth.
Crystal Renn Net Worth $6 Million
Crystal attended Junior High School in her adoptive hometown Clinton, Mississippi, where she was noticed by a professional scout, when just 14. However, when she auditioned, she was told that she needed to lose some of her body weight in order to become a model. After that advice, Renn struggled with eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, but after years of battle against it, she turned out victorious and stunned the world when she entered the fashion industry as a plus size model with confection number 12. The rise of her net worth had begun.
Having struggled with a vicious disease and been rejected by model agencies, Renn published a book about her life experience, entitled “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves” also talking about her transformation. Her successful career as a plus-size model includes collaboration with fashion photographers Steven Meisel and Ruven Afanador, productive contracts with clothing manufacturers like Evans, Torrid and Lane Bryant. Her impressive resume covers important runway appearances for Chanel, Vena Cava, Shaitzy Chen, Zac Posen, Elena Miro and especially Jean Paul Gaultier. Apart from this, she has appeared in some of the world’s most famous fashion magazines, specifically Australian, American, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Latin American and Teen editorials for “Vogue”, Russian, American and Australian “Harper’s Bazaar”, Italian “Elle”, “Glamour”, “Vanity Fair” and others. All added to her net worth.
Her relatively recent activity includes the 2010 fall/winter campaign of Jean Paul Gaultier and campaigns for brands like H&M, Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel, Jimmy Choo, Nordstrom, Barneys, Zac Posen and many others. In 2011 she became the spring/summer campaign face for Jimmy Choo and spring/summer face for a plus size jeans collection by Marina Rinaldi. A year later she appeared in the “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue”. Renn also copmpleted back to back campaigns wearing regular sized clothing for Spanish brand Mango, back in 2007.
When it comes to her private life, Renn was married for two years from June 2007 to her longtime boyfriend Gregory Vrecenak; the couple married in, in Manhattan, New York It was said that Crystal lost a lot of weight thanks to practicing yoga and hiking, so she was no longer a size 12 but now size 8. She now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
