Carolyn Murphy was born on August 11, 1975 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Murphy, an American Supermodel started her career at a relatively young age of 16 with a modeling agency Mary Lou’s Models. She is 5 feet 8 inches tall with Blue eyes and Brown hair. At the initial stages of her career she modeled in local ads and magazines throughout Florida and Alabama. Her career took a leap when she got her hair bleached to platinum blonde for a photo shoot. But this caused a hair fall out and she had to get a short hair cut, which gave her a tremendous look leading to her popularity with many top photographers.
This lead to a sudden rise in her career as Murphy made appearances in high fashion magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. She has also graced the cover of the 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as well as the cover of 1999 Vogue as the “Model of the Millennium”.
Murphy’s profile includes appearing in the famed 2002 Playboy calendar. She was also named VH1-Vogue’s “Model of the Year” in the 1998 Fashion Awards. Her career took a turn and she was signed in Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights in 1999. Being on the top of her career, she married a shop owner, Jake Schroeder and gave birth to their daughter Dylan Blue on December 28, 2000. Murphy with her husband and daughter once posed for Vogue as Kurt Cobain, Courtney love, and Frances Bean Cobain. The couple split in the year 2002. Then she started dating Brandon Boyd, but this relationship also came to an end soon in 2005.
Murphy has been considered the world’s 6th top earning Supermodel by the Forbes magazine in July 2007. Her earnings are estimated to be $5 million in past 12 months. Presently, busy with her modeling assignments, she is also the primary female spokesmodel in Estee Lauder.