Quiana Grant



Quiana Grant (b. 1st January 1982) is an American model who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[1]  She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair who is in her tenth year of producing bodypaint art for the Swimsuit Issue.[2]  She was part of a record-setting class of seven rookie Swimsuit Issue models along with Jessica Gomes, Melissa Haro, Yasmin Brunet, Melissa Baker, Jeisa Chiminazzo and Jarah Mariano.



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[edit] == Grant attended Menchville High School and graduated in 1999.[3]  She now lives Harlem in New York, New York, but she considers Newport News, Virginia to be her hometown.[4]  Although Quiana was highly sought after for modeling at age 14,[citation needed]  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.[5]  Her mother had Chorioretinitis and could not even recognize Quiana until she was 13.[4]  Her parents are Tony and Regina Grant,[6]  and she has a younger brother.[4] ==Experience[edit] == 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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hcgs_6-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  She has modelled for GAP (photos by Steven Meisel)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-M_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  andMaybelline ad campaigns as well as done runway work for numerous leading fashion houses and designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Kors, Anne Klein and Bill Blass.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-M_5-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-QGFMD_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  She is represented by IMG in New York, Modelwerk in Germany, City Models in Paris, France as well as Vision Model Management.
 * 2 Experience
 * 3 Notes
 * 4 External links