Rebecca Romijn was a popular model of the 1990s, perhaps being one small notch below the extra-super status of models like Claudia Schiffer or Linda Evangelista. Romijn-Stamos gained early fame for appearing in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and Victoria's Secret catalogs. As the century turned she ventured into the movies: in 2000 she played blue-skinned superheroine Mystique in the movie X-Men (co-starring with Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry) and in 2002 she starred in the sci-fi remake