Quiana Grant is an American

United States

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 model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales. According to some, the magazine is the arbiter of supermodel succession. In addition, the issue is a media nexus that in 2005 carried in advertising....

. She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair

Joanne Gair

Joanne "Kiwi Jo" or "Kiwi Joe" Gair is a New Zealand-born and raised make-up artist and body painter whose body paintings have been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 1999 to the 2011 edition...

 who is in her tenth year of producing bodypaint art for the Swimsuit Issue. She was part of a record-setting class of seven rookie Swimsuit Issue models along with Jessica Gomes

Jessica Gomes

Jessica Gomes is an Australian model of Singaporean-Chinese and Portuguese heritage who appeared in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of the Swimsuit Issue of the United States–published magazine Sports Illustrated. She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist...

, Melissa Haro

Melissa Haro

Melissa Rose Haro is an American model who appeared in the 2008 & 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Her 2008 photo shoot was set in the Cayman Islands during the Pirate Week festival and included many photos in keeping with its motif...

, Yasmin Brunet

Yasmin Brunet

Yasmin Brunet is a Brazilian model who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.- Biography :...

, Melissa Baker

Melissa Baker

Melissa Baker is an American model who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.- Biography :Melissa Baker was born in Akron, Ohio and grew up in nearby Cuyahoga Falls, graduating from Stow-Munroe Falls High School. She had been a competitive gymnast in her youth. Her family, which...

, Jeisa Chiminazzo

Jeisa Chiminazzo

Jeísa Chiminazzo is a Brazilian model.- Personal life :Chiminazzo grew up in Muçum, RS, Brazil, born to parents Ernani and Ivone of Italian and German descent. She has two sisters, Grace and Jéssica...

 and Jarah Mariano

Jarah Mariano

Jarah-Evelyn Makalapua Mariano , is an American fashion model best known for her appearances in the 2008 and 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions, as well as Victoria's Secret.-Early life:...

.

Biography

Grant attended Menchville High School

Menchville High School

Menchville High School is one of five high schools in Newport News, Virginia. The school was named in honor of Thomas H. Menchville.They are the top school in Newport News in terms of the number of students taking AP exams, and have the highest rate of passing.In 2008, Menchville High School was...

 and graduated in 1999. She now lives Harlem

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

 in New York, New York, but she considers Newport News, Virginia

Newport News, Virginia

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 to be her hometown. Although Quiana was highly sought after for modeling at age 14, she stayed in school until age 16. At age 16, while her mother underwent a series of eye surgeries, she served as her mother's eyes. Her mother had Chorioretinitis

Chorioretinitis

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 and could not even recognize Quiana until she was 13. Her parents are Tony and Regina Grant, and she has a younger brother.

Experience

Quiana was twenty-six years old with over ten years of modeling experience at the time of the release of her debut in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has modelled for GAP

Gap (clothing retailer)

The Gap, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta. As of September 2008,...

 (photos by Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...

) and Maybelline

Maybelline

Maybelline is an American makeup brand sold worldwide and owned by L'Oréal. Their motto is Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.-History:...

 ad campaigns as well as done runway work for numerous leading fashion houses and designers such as Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...

, Michael Kors

Michael Kors

Michael Kors is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women.-Personal life:...

, Anne Klein

Anne Klein

Anne Klein was an American fashion designer who founded her own women's sportswear and apparel label.-Biography:Anne Klein was born as Hannah Golofski in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York on August 3, 1923...

 and Bill Blass

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

. She is represented by IMG

IMG (business)

IMG, originally known as the International Management Group is a global sports and media business headquartered in New York City.-History:...

 in New York, Modelwerk in Germany

Germany

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, City Models in Paris, France as well as Vision Model Management.

External links

• Quiana Grant at the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
  Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
  The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales. According to some, the magazine is the arbiter of supermodel succession. In addition, the issue is a media nexus that in 2005 carried in advertising....