"Jean Shrimpton, An Autobiography" was published in 1990.
At age five, she went to St Bernard's Convent in High Wycombe, UK.
Attended a secretarial course near Marble Arch in Central London for a year. Had two weeks of work experience in a typing pool in Oxford Street.
Glamour magazine named her "Model of the Year" in June 1963.
Had a childhood pet pony named Ricky.
Has a son, Thaddeus, by husband Michael Cox.
Her sister Chrissie was also a leading model and dated Mick Jagger.
Measurements: 33-22-34 (as novice model), 34B-23-35 (during prime of her career in 1960s), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Mentioned in Smithereen's song "Behind the Wall of Sleep". "She had hair like Jean Shrimpton back in 1965".
Older sister of Chrissie Shrimpton.
Owns and runs a 1620 hotel called the Abbey Hotel, with husband Michael Cox and son Thaddeus in Penzance, Cornwall, England. They purchased the hotel in 1980.
Prior to Twiggy, she was one of the very top international fashion models of the 1960s.
Prototypical Supermodel who was one of the faces of swinging sixties London.
She and her photographer David Bailey earned international acclaim when they collaborated on a series of photographs "Young Idea Goes West", which were taken in New York for British Vogue and ran in April 1962.
She and her photographer David Bailey transformed the fashion pages of women's magazines as Bailey snapped Shrimpton in informal poses.
Was ranked #18 in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".
Was told to take up modeling by a stranger at the polo in Windsor Great Park and by film director Cy Endfield when she was taking lunch in Hyde Park. Afterwards, she went on a Lucie Clayton course which lasted about a month.
When the UK's newspaper "The Sunday Times" launched its first colour supplement magazine (February 4, 1962), Shrimpton graced its cover wearing a dress by Mary Quant with photographs taken by David Bailey.