Chrystal Renn started her modeling career in high fashion at the age of 14 after being spotted by a professioal scout in her hometown in Clinton, Mississippi. Chrystal was told she needed to lose almost a third of her body weight if she wanted to be a model. After gaining about 32kg and re-emerging as a U.S. size 12, she was re-marketed by her agents as a plus size model. She has authored a book, Hungry: A young model's story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, about her experience in the fashion industry in relation to her several body type tranformations.
Chrystal is the only plus size model to appear on Harper's Bazaar cover and four international Vogue editions. She has also enjoyed lucrative contracts with many high-profile plus-size clothing manufactures such as Lane Bryant, Evans and Torrid, and has also appeared on the runway for Vena Cava. Heatherette, Elana Miro and most notably for Jean-Paul Gaultier in his Spring/Summer pret-a-porter 2006 collection in Paris, garnering favorable and extensive media interest. Recently, she walked in Chanel Resort 2011 runway show and also appeared In the F/W 2010 Jean-Paul Gaultier campaign and has appeared in campaigns for H&M, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Saks Fifth Avenue, Jimmy Choo, Dsquared and Norddstrom. She has also appeared in editorials for American, Italian, French, German and Teen Vogue, Italian Elle, Russian and American Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, V, i-D AND Vanity Fair.
