Her modeling career hit the ground running as she was managed by the modelling industry legend Eileen Ford, working at the Ford Modelling Agency. It was the modeling that made her recognizable, and which drew her to the attention of the various rock stars and music executives she would eventually be associated with. But she always had an eye on the music industry. Embed from Getty ImagesĪt the age of 18, she swiftly relocated to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion model. She was fascinated by music and celebrity life from a young age and from the moment she saw The Beatles make their legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, her fate was sealed. Navy Officer and WWII veteran, Harold Lloyd Buell.

But because her talents are in great demand by photographers, agencies and fashion magazines (on a typic.Bebe Buell was born Beverle Lorence Buell on July 14th, 1953, daughter of Dorothea (Brown) Johnson (founder of the Protocol School of Washington) and U.S. Bebe still travels with him, though, when he and his band, Utopia, go on tour. I want to have my own career, my own identity.' While Bebe has busied herself with that, Rundgren has gone on to become one of the most accomplished writers and producers of rock (his last single, Hello, It's Me, was nearly a 1,000,000 seller). It would be easy for me to just hang around with Todd and do nothing but blab on the phone all day while shining the furniture and his four gold records lying around our house. 'I model,' she explains, 'because I like to accomplish things. Anyway, we talked, went out a couple of times and soon we were living together.' That was nearly three years ago, and though the photographs are gone from the walls of the recording studio, some of New York's finest fashion photographers are taking new ones of Bebe all the time. 'At the time,' Bebe remembers, 'Todd had just released his second album. One day, a musician friend of the studio owner met the girl in the photographs. 'He hung photographs of me all over his studio.' And everyone who passed through the studio - recording engineers, producers, musicians - saw the pictures. 'He must have thought I was great,' she recalls. Free Preview: Playmate of the Month November 1974 - Bebe Buellīebe Buell had just come to New York from the South and had met a young man who owned a recording studio.

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