Rachel Nichols

Where you’ve seen her:
This 23-year-old actress from Augusta, Maine, is a wildly successful international model, a Columbia University grad, and is now destined for even greater heights after her star turn in the upcoming comedy smash Dumb and Dumberer.

Bottom of the class:
“I definitely wasn’t one of the cool kids in high school. I was a dork. I was this shy, skinny, flat-chested girl with long arms.”

Overnight ex-breasts:
“One day I looked down and I had breasts. I said, ‘Wow! How’d that happen?’ I was so excited I had to call my mom.”

Her scent-iments exactly:
“It sounds so cheesy, I know. But the way a man smells is really important. It must be something about the pheromones. People think I’m nuts. But there’s something very primal, very animalistic about it.”

June 2003 (#66)