Roberta Chirko

[fender]

Roberta thought of dealing with music, as sound engineer or similar, she said this in an interview, loved the music, but have not heard of her as a musician- still appears on some fashion catalog in the mid nineties and I still hope to post some pictures about it

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[tyralover]

Actually, the photographer's name was Oliviero Toscani...He famously photographed and was creative director of all those Benetton ads in the '80s/'90s, and lots of her work in American and French Elle ( and I wish there was more of it on this thread! Particularly the French Elle stuff. Hasn't anyone got those?I'd be most grateful!)

Does anyone remember's Roberta's fantastic appearance in that 1987 Bryan Ferry Video 'The Right Stuff?' She was stunning in it!

here's the vid on Youtube:

Roberta biography

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and she was discovered whilst working in a shopping mall restaurant, and later was noticed by photographer Philippe Toscani.

She has done Advertisements for name like Christian Dior, Esprit, Iceberg, i-Blues, Laurèl, Planet, River Island, Wella, Trussardi, Louis Feraud, Per Spook, Dillard`s, and have been seen on magazine covers like L'Officiel, Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle.

She is married to former John Mellencamp band member, Toby Mayer`s and they have one child together, Cash (born 1999) – I think

Her husband, Toby Mayer fall in love her when he so her pictures on a magazine.

(This is what I found, not much

Is there someone that has more information about her?)

I found this about Roberta Chirko Myers:

http://villagegreenpreschool.com/bio.html

Roberta Chirko Myers grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. She then traveled extensively as a fashion model and lived in Paris and New York City from 1983 till 1992. She met her future husband who introduced her to Brown County, IN., and she immediately fell in love with the landscape and the people who lived there. When she and her husband started a family they decided to put down roots in Brown County. Roberta enrolled her son in the Village Green Preschool in 2002. She found that she adored being around children and that children adored her, fondly referring to her as Miss Bert. She was offered an assistant position and accepted it gladly. Roberta's passion shows in her eagerness to help children in a playful, positive way. The 2009/2010 school year will be Roberta's fifth year with Village Green Preschool.

[fender]

Actually, the photographer's name was Oliviero Toscani...He famously photographed and was creative director of all those Benetton ads in the '80s/'90s, and lots of her work in American and French Elle ( and I wish there was more of it on this thread! Particularly the French Elle stuff. Hasn't anyone got those?I'd be most grateful!)

Does anyone remember's Roberta's fantastic appearance in that 1987 Bryan Ferry Video 'The Right Stuff?' She was stunning in it!

here's the vid on Youtube:

Roberta biography

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and she was discovered whilst working in a shopping mall restaurant, and later was noticed by photographer Philippe Toscani.

She has done Advertisements for name like Christian Dior, Esprit, Iceberg, i-Blues, Laurèl, Planet, River Island, Wella, Trussardi, Louis Feraud, Per Spook, Dillard`s, and have been seen on magazine covers like L'Officiel, Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle.

She is married to former John Mellencamp band member, Toby Mayer`s and they have one child together, Cash (born 1999)

[tyralover]

Actually, the photographer's name was Oliviero Toscani...He famously photographed and was creative director of all those Benetton ads in the '80s/'90s, and lots of her work in American and French Elle ( and I wish there was more of it on this thread! Particularly the French Elle stuff. Hasn't anyone got those?I'd be most grateful!)

Does anyone remember's Roberta's fantastic appearance in that 1987 Bryan Ferry Video 'The Right Stuff?' She was stunning in it!

here's the vid on Youtube:

Roberta biography

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and she was discovered whilst working in a shopping mall restaurant, and later was noticed by photographer Philippe Toscani.

She has done Advertisements for name like Christian Dior, Esprit, Iceberg, i-Blues, Laurèl, Planet, River Island, Wella, Trussardi, Louis Feraud, Per Spook, Dillard`s, and have been seen on magazine covers like L'Officiel, Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle.

She is married to former John Mellencamp band member, Toby Mayer`s and they have one child together, Cash (born 1999) �€“ I think

Her husband, Toby Mayer fall in love her when he so her pictures on a magazine.

(This is what I found, not much

Is there someone that has more information about her?)

I found this about Roberta Chirko Myers:

http://villagegreenpreschool.com/bio.html

Roberta Chirko Myers grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. She then traveled extensively as a fashion model and lived in Paris and New York City from 1983 till 1992. She met her future husband who introduced her to Brown County, IN., and she immediately fell in love with the landscape and the people who lived there. When she and her husband started a family they decided to put down roots in Brown County. Roberta enrolled her son in the Village Green Preschool in 2002. She found that she adored being around children and that children adored her, fondly referring to her as Miss Bert. She was offered an assistant position and accepted it gladly. Roberta's passion shows in her eagerness to help children in a playful, positive way. The 2009/2010 school year will be Roberta's fifth year with Village Green Preschool.

Welcome Tyra!

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it looks like Pittsburgh is very proud of this ...Never heard of Chicago.

Oliviero "found" her in the late eighties and was crazy for her.

I will try in the coming days to know more about this musician, Myers-Mayer or whatever.

I loved Roberta, I think her career is over because she was essentially a model that expressed herself through the lens of a photographer.the models of the generation coming after were more complete ,could do almost all-there were some exceptions - the catwalk shows.This helps to put an end to many careers:Williams,Chirko et cetera.

I'm also really puzzled by that date: 1983. It seems very strange that her career has begun so early.

Thanks again for your contribution, Roberta was a very important model: in France and Italy was literally adored.

I was looking around for information regarding the present whereabouts of Roberta. I figured the article's information was given by Mrs. Chirko Myers herself but I could be wrong. From what I read about Toby Myers, he had been familiar with Roberta's name and image from the 80's when he would see her on the covers of magazines, which would make sense since she did have a strong cover presence, especially American Elle. Around this time frame, Myers was a member of John Cougar Mellencamp's session band. It just happened that when John Cougar Mellencamp had met Elaine Irwin and had introduced her to his band members, that it occured to Myers to ask about Roberta. According to Elaine, she and Roberta had been roomates in New York City when they were both on the come-up and that there was still some contact between the 2 models.

So accounts vary as to Roberta's story and it seems that information in second-hand as there is no direct quotes from Roberta herself. As to where she originally came from, the span of her modeling career, or whatever comes up in internet searches, the information could be right or wrong. In the case of her husband's account, I would take his word for it. But still, it was nice to know that she did something with her life that gave it some meaning beyond the smoke and mirrors that modeling is known for.

[fender]

Actually, the photographer's name was Oliviero Toscani...He famously photographed and was creative director of all those Benetton ads in the '80s/'90s, and lots of her work in American and French Elle ( and I wish there was more of it on this thread! Particularly the French Elle stuff. Hasn't anyone got those?I'd be most grateful!)

Does anyone remember's Roberta's fantastic appearance in that 1987 Bryan Ferry Video 'The Right Stuff?' She was stunning in it!

here's the vid on Youtube:

Roberta biography

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and she was discovered whilst working in a shopping mall restaurant, and later was noticed by photographer Philippe Toscani.

She has done Advertisements for name like Christian Dior, Esprit, Iceberg, i-Blues, Laurèl, Planet, River Island, Wella, Trussardi, Louis Feraud, Per Spook, Dillard`s, and have been seen on magazine covers like L'Officiel, Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle.

She is married to former John Mellencamp band member, Toby Mayer`s and they have one child together, Cash (born 1999) �€“ I think

Her husband, Toby Mayer fall in love her when he so her pictures on a magazine.

(This is what I found, not much

Is there someone that has more information about her?)

I found this about Roberta Chirko Myers:

http://villagegreenpreschool.com/bio.html

Roberta Chirko Myers grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. She then traveled extensively as a fashion model and lived in Paris and New York City from 1983 till 1992. She met her future husband who introduced her to Brown County, IN., and she immediately fell in love with the landscape and the people who lived there. When she and her husband started a family they decided to put down roots in Brown County. Roberta enrolled her son in the Village Green Preschool in 2002. She found that she adored being around children and that children adored her, fondly referring to her as Miss Bert. She was offered an assistant position and accepted it gladly. Roberta's passion shows in her eagerness to help children in a playful, positive way. The 2009/2010 school year will be Roberta's fifth year with Village Green Preschool.

Welcome Tyra!

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it looks like Pittsburgh is very proud of this ...Never heard of Chicago.

Oliviero "found" her in the late eighties and was crazy for her.

I will try in the coming days to know more about this musician, Myers-Mayer or whatever.

I loved Roberta, I think her career is over because she was essentially a model that expressed herself through the lens of a photographer.the models of the generation coming after were more complete ,could do almost all-there were some exceptions - the catwalk shows.This helps to put an end to many careers:Williams,Chirko et cetera.

I'm also really puzzled by that date: 1983. It seems very strange that her career has begun so early.

Thanks again for your contribution, Roberta was a very important model: in France and Italy was literally adored.

I was looking around for information regarding the present whereabouts of Roberta. I figured the article's information was given by Mrs. Chirko Myers herself but I could be wrong. From what I read about Toby Myers, he had been familiar with Roberta's name and image from the 80's when he would see her on the covers of magazines, which would make sense since she did have a strong cover presence, especially American Elle. Around this time frame, Myers was a member of John Cougar Mellencamp's session band. It just happened that when John Cougar Mellencamp had met Elaine Irwin and had introduced her to his band members, that it occured to Myers to ask about Roberta. According to Elaine, she and Roberta had been roomates in New York City when they were both on the come-up and that there was still some contact between the 2 models.

So accounts vary as to Roberta's story and it seems that information in second-hand as there is no direct quotes from Roberta herself. As to where she originally came from, the span of her modeling career, or whatever comes up in internet searches, the information could be right or wrong. In the case of her husband's account, I would take his word for it. But still, it was nice to know that she did something with her life that gave it some meaning beyond the smoke and mirrors that modeling is known for.

HiTlover,

Thanks again for the interesting information.I hope you will find more. I have some catalog that seems to document an activity of Roberta even after 1992.

If you have any information about Susan Miner and Michelle Stevens you I'd be grateful.especially Michelle seems to have disappeared without a trace.

[tyralover]

If you have any information about Susan Miner and Michelle Stevens you I'd be grateful.especially Michelle seems to have disappeared without a trace.

I had come across Eva Voorhees' site supermodelicons.com and from what I read about Michelle Stevens, she quit modeling in a pre-planned way. Here is the link on Michelle Stevens' update: http://supermodelicons.com/michelle-stevens/2009/09/11/

[fender]

If you have any information about Susan Miner and Michelle Stevens you I'd be grateful.especially Michelle seems to have disappeared without a trace.

I had come across Eva Voorhees' site supermodelicons.com and from what I read about Michelle Stevens, she quit modeling in a pre-planned way. Here is the link on Michelle Stevens' update: http://supermodelicons.com/michelle-stevens/2009/09/11/

Hi TL,I know the site of Eva...The point is that you do not know the causes of this retreat and what happened after---anyway, thanks!

[tyralover]

If you have any information about Susan Miner and Michelle Stevens you I'd be grateful.especially Michelle seems to have disappeared without a trace.

I had come across Eva Voorhees' site supermodelicons.com and from what I read about Michelle Stevens, she quit modeling in a pre-planned way. Here is the link on Michelle Stevens' update: http://supermodelicons.com/michelle-stevens/2009/09/11/

Hi TL,I know the site of Eva...The point is that you do not know the causes of this retreat and what happened after---anyway, thanks!

Based on what I read in the entry for Michelle, one can only guess that the need for home, marriage, and family may have won out as a priority. That seems to be the common thread between Roberta and most of the models from her era and those from before. It happens with the best of them. But then again, its just a guess. With Michelle Stevens, the idea that her son would write a response in her entry is intriguing to say the least. I'm pretty sure that by viewing his mother's entry, he got a glimpse of a side to his mother he may not have been ready to see. His style of writing had an element of defensiveness to it.

As for Susan Miner, who knows if the need for marriage and kids may have had a hand in her decision to leave modeling.

[fender]

If you have any information about Susan Miner and Michelle Stevens you I'd be grateful.especially Michelle seems to have disappeared without a trace.

I had come across Eva Voorhees' site supermodelicons.com and from what I read about Michelle Stevens, she quit modeling in a pre-planned way. Here is the link on Michelle Stevens' update: http://supermodelicons.com/michelle-stevens/2009/09/11/

Hi TL,I know the site of Eva...The point is that you do not know the causes of this retreat and what happened after---anyway, thanks!

Based on what I read in the entry for Michelle, one can only guess that the need for home, marriage, and family may have won out as a priority. That seems to be the common thread between Roberta and most of the models from her era and those from before. It happens with the best of them. But then again, its just a guess. With Michelle Stevens, the idea that her son would write a response in her entry is intriguing to say the least. I'm pretty sure that by viewing his mother's entry, he got a glimpse of a side to his mother he may not have been ready to see. His style of writing had an element of defensiveness to it.

As for Susan Miner, who knows if the need for marriage and kids may have had a hand in her decision to leave modeling.

I'm happy for Michelle, but I must confess that many of these sudden retirement puzzle me.When you are on the apex of a career is not easy to quit.May be that the case of Shana Zadrick has made us suspicious too---Au revoir,TL

[Dayrell]

Another new cover to me. Thanks Fender!

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Another new cover to me. Thanks Fender!

Thanks Dayrell.these days I need to be encouraged by my friends!someone tells me: "not post HQ scans,is unfair to those who do not".in other words they want to continue doing copypaste from other sites.

-this is a lovingly restored cover,more are damaged and more I feel compelled to repair the damage. for lovers of fashion and models.so that they can download and store in their collection.But this seems to be a fault at least for lovers of trash.

In less than three months I gave to Bellazon about 500 scans and was paid with insults and nasty proffered by clowns, puppets and collectors of post.

[66Lucy]

Yes Dayrell, beautiful pictures of Roberta, thank you for posting Fender

[fender]

Yes Dayrell, beautiful pictures of Roberta, thank you for posting Fender

Thanks---The old school has paved the way for me

[66Lucy]

It's so good to see those wonderful threads coming back to life

[Kellymo-82]

Actually, the photographer's name was Oliviero Toscani...He famously photographed and was creative director of all those Benetton ads in the '80s/'90s, and lots of her work in American and French Elle ( and I wish there was more of it on this thread! Particularly the French Elle stuff. Hasn't anyone got those?I'd be most grateful!)

Does anyone remember's Roberta's fantastic appearance in that 1987 Bryan Ferry Video 'The Right Stuff?' She was stunning in it!

here's the vid on Youtube:

Roberta biography

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and she was discovered whilst working in a shopping mall restaurant, and later was noticed by photographer Philippe Toscani.

She has done Advertisements for name like Christian Dior, Esprit, Iceberg, i-Blues, Laurèl, Planet, River Island, Wella, Trussardi, Louis Feraud, Per Spook, Dillard`s, and have been seen on magazine covers like L'Officiel, Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle.

She is married to former John Mellencamp band member, Toby Mayer`s and they have one child together, Cash (born 1999) �€“ I think

Her husband, Toby Mayer fall in love her when he so her pictures on a magazine.

(This is what I found, not much

Is there someone that has more information about her?)

I found this about Roberta Chirko Myers:

http://villagegreenpreschool.com/bio.html

Roberta Chirko Myers grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. She then traveled extensively as a fashion model and lived in Paris and New York City from 1983 till 1992. She met her future husband who introduced her to Brown County, IN., and she immediately fell in love with the landscape and the people who lived there. When she and her husband started a family they decided to put down roots in Brown County. Roberta enrolled her son in the Village Green Preschool in 2002. She found that she adored being around children and that children adored her, fondly referring to her as Miss Bert. She was offered an assistant position and accepted it gladly. Roberta's passion shows in her eagerness to help children in a playful, positive way. The 2009/2010 school year will be Roberta's fifth year with Village Green Preschool.

Welcome Tyra!

Roberta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it looks like Pittsburgh is very proud of this ...Never heard of Chicago.

Oliviero "found" her in the late eighties and was crazy for her.

I will try in the coming days to know more about this musician, Myers-Mayer or whatever.

I loved Roberta, I think her career is over because she was essentially a model that expressed herself through the lens of a photographer.the models of the generation coming after were more complete ,could do almost all-there were some exceptions - the catwalk shows.This helps to put an end to many careers:Williams,Chirko et cetera.

I'm also really puzzled by that date: 1983. It seems very strange that her career has begun so early.

Thanks again for your contribution, Roberta was a very important model: in France and Italy was literally adored.

I was looking around for information regarding the present whereabouts of Roberta. I figured the article's information was given by Mrs. Chirko Myers herself but I could be wrong. From what I read about Toby Myers, he had been familiar with Roberta's name and image from the 80's when he would see her on the covers of magazines, which would make sense since she did have a strong cover presence, especially American Elle. Around this time frame, Myers was a member of John Cougar Mellencamp's session band. It just happened that when John Cougar Mellencamp had met Elaine Irwin and had introduced her to his band members, that it occured to Myers to ask about Roberta. According to Elaine, she and Roberta had been roomates in New York City when they were both on the come-up and that there was still some contact between the 2 models.

So accounts vary as to Roberta's story and it seems that information in second-hand as there is no direct quotes from Roberta herself. As to where she originally came from, the span of her modeling career, or whatever comes up in internet searches, the information could be right or wrong. In the case of her husband's account, I would take his word for it. But still, it was nice to know that she did something with her life that gave it some meaning beyond the smoke and mirrors that modeling is known for.

HiTlover,

Thanks again for the interesting information.I hope you will find more. I have some catalog that seems to document an activity of Roberta even after 1992.

If you have any information about Susan Miner and Michelle Stevens you I'd be grateful.especially Michelle seems to have disappeared without a trace.

Is the Susan Miner you are talking the one who was in that famous Revlon unforgettable women with Janice Dickinson and that Japanese model in the 80's?

[Kellymo-82]

Another new cover to me. Thanks Fender!

Thanks Dayrell.these days I need to be encouraged by my friends!someone tells me: "not post HQ scans,is unfair to those who do not".in other words they want to continue doing copypaste from other sites.

-this is a lovingly restored cover,more are damaged and more I feel compelled to repair the damage. for lovers of fashion and models.so that they can download and store in their collection.But this seems to be a fault at least for lovers of trash.

In less than three months I gave to Bellazon about 500 scans and was paid with insults and nasty proffered by clowns, puppets and collectors of post.

I can't believe anyone would insult you for that! Thanks for all the scans Fender!!