@ArianaVSCouture Well, also Les Copains (fall 96), Valentino (fall 96) and Gianfranco Ferré (fall 96) have included Valeria and Claudia on the same show.
And it is true she never was involved into celebrity/rockstars boyfriends, splits relationship scandals, drugs, alcohol or violent behaviours.
She always said from the beggining "I am not an interesting person for the media, I'm quite boring, I'm with the same guy for years and probably we will get married soon. He is not famous. I don't talk bad things about my colleagues. The only thing they talked about was a self-made created by the media about my war between Claudia and I, and that's false, I don't hate her, I never had a real fight with her, it is all a media fantasy, they always compared both of us".
Valeria worked for kids with handicapped kids/youngs since 13 years old (Special Olympics) and she studied at college for years as she worked too. She didn't graduated but she continue to work with those kids and helping in charity. As a visible woman she used that "power" to made some voices to be heared. That's a really good thing.
She rejected to appeare on the James Bond movie as a sex symbol, she rejected to appeared on the Playboy cover, and stuff like that. She said NO to a lot of things and work offers. So it is not easy to gain more popularity or get more and more jobs if you say No, No, No, and No to a lot of things that you considered unappropiate.
She ended to do the same things she always said in the early years interviews, like I'm not going to do nude pictures, I'm not going to do cigarrettes adverts, I'm not going to promote anorexia, I'm going to have 4 kids, I'm going to work with needed people. She is and she was consistent, what she said is what she has done.