Mandy Amano

Where you've seen her:
This Dallas-bred cutie launched 1,000 Web posts with a single appearance dancing in a Pepsi iTunes ad which aired during the 2005 Super Bowl.

Pop star:
After seeing the Pepsi commercial, love-struck nerds from Germany to Japan created online odes to her beauty: "It’s crazy. I was on screen for 13 seconds. I guess I owe it all to my Pepsi wiggle."

Cartoon network:
The Wilhelmina model is a comic book freak, thanks in part to her father, who writes comics and raised Mandy on a steady diet of superheroes: "All my friends’ parents had Georgia O’Keeffe on their walls. We had the X-Men."

Nerd pride:
"Comic book fans are interesting, gentle people."

May 2005 (#89)