Name	Melissa Haro
Height	5' 9"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	September 5, 1988
Place of Birth	San Jose, California, USA
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Melissa Rose Haro was born on January 1, 1988, in San Jose, California, and grew up in the same house on the city's east side that her grandparents had previously lived in. Her modeling career got off to an early start when she was just 13. Despite having been a model since her early teens, she considers herself a nerdy, chess-playing bookworm at heart. Her love for reading may have helped her graduate a year early from James Lick High School at the age of 16.
melissa haro on project runway
Melissa Haro was crowned Miss Bay Area Teen in 2004, and was selected as fourth runner-up in the Miss California pageant that same year. Her success in her home state led to her being chosen as a model contestant for the premiere season of Bravo Channel's Project Runway reality series, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum. The show debuted in December 2004, and Melissa Haro was the competition's youngest participant. She finished in the top three.

She may reside on the West Coast, but Melissa Haro's career has mostly been based out of New York City, where Elite Model Management, one of the agencies that represents her, is headquartered. Priscillas Model Management and Look modeling agency out of San Francisco have also represented her. Some of the print campaigns she's appeared in include ads for Jessica McClintok, Bebe and Guess Jeans, who made her their spokesmodel in 2005. She's also been featured in spreads for Cosmopolitan, Elle and Vanity Fair magazines.
melissa haro in sports illustrated (twice)
Joining the ranks of other bikini-clad babes, Melissa Haro made her debut as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 2008. The publication's annual homage to the female form hit the newsstands in February. Her shots were taken in the Cayman Islands during the Caribbean isles' yearly Pirate Week festival, and Melissa Haro was photographed alongside members of the Seattle Seafair Pirates in some of the images. She showed off her finest attributes in skimpy swimwear, capped off with a tricorn hat with a skull and bones motif, in keeping with the session's pirate theme.