Yasmeen Ghauri

Her father is Pakistani and her mother German; the family emigrated from Germany to Canada shortly before her birth. Discovered while working at McDonalds — where she was Employee of the Month, no less! —Yasmeen defied the objections of her father in order to pursue modeling. Her father was "the imam or religious leader at the ICQ, or Islamic Community of Quebec,” according to a 1992 article in Toronto Now.