Elaine Irwin Mellencamp is a former supermodel, and currently works as a spokeswoman for Almay Cosmetics.

Elaine was born in 1969 in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. At 16, she left home to pursue a modeling career. After her photo appeared in Seventeen in 1985, the Boyertown honor student and varsity letter-winner in track and cross country was a much sought-after face for magazine covers, advertisements and commercials. Within a few years, she became one of the Ford Models and had graced the cover of dozens of fashion magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self and Elite.

She made her move onto the runway for Victoria's Secret and Calvin Klein and soon became a favorite subject of photographers like Herb Ritts, Irving Penn and Steven Meisel for her natural, soft look.

Elaine was 23 when she married musician John "Cougar" Mellencamp. The two met when she was hired to appear on the cover of Mellencamp's Whenever We Wanted album and within 10 weeks, she was enga