Vanessa Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, at Clark
Air Force Base in the Philippines. Her father, Vince Minnillo, was an Air Force
Aircrew Member (now retired) of Irish and Italian extraction, and her mother,
Helen Berecero, a Polynesian he met while based in the Philippines. She and her
family, which includes a two-years older brother, Vincent, lived in California,
Nevada, Florida, Germany, and Japan before settling down in Charleston, South
Carolina. Vanessa attended seven different schools during this time, and
participated in cheer leading and volunteer work for numerous different local
charities.
After her parents divorce in 1986, Helen was awarded custody of both children
and Vanessa only saw her father on weekends. When her mother remarried, the
family moved to Turkey, where her new stepfather, a U.S. Air Force Serviceman,
was assigned. They were forced to evacuate when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in
1990, leading to the Gulf War of 1991, and Helen brought the kids back to the
United States, leaving them with their father until she could get back on her
feet. That would be the last Vanessa would see of her mother, who never
returned. Instead, she began a new life, along with her brother, living with her
father Vince and his new wife, Donna, whom she now calls her "best friend".
With her life more settled, Vanessa began to turn her attention to the Miss
South Carolina beauty pageant in 1996. She had loved cheer leading since she was
a young child, and was very keen on performing in front of an audience. With her
unaffected style and natural ebullience, she easily won over the judges,
sweeping all the categories before winning the crown. Two years later, on August
17, 1998, she competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant. Though it was preempted by
CBS's live coverage of a speech by President Bill Clinton regarding the Monica
Lewinsky ordeal, in the end, she wooed the Miss Teen USA judges just like she
had the Miss South Carolina judges two years earlier. It was her second pageant,
and her second victory. In the three years since handing over her Miss Teen USA
crown, Miss Minnillo has concentrated on college, acting, and modeling. She has
a promising future, and was recently one of the finalists in E!'s competition to
find a replacement for Brooke Burke as hostess for the show "Wild On..." (1997).
Though the job ultimately went to Cindy Taylor, Vanessa made a big impression
with "Wild On..." (1997) fans across the world, and hopes to continue working in
television for some time to come
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