In an effort to divert the attention away from her daughter's stunning features, she booked an appointment at the local chop shop and planned on giving poor Ingrid the latest version of the buzz cut. Not because she wanted her daughter to enlist in the military, but because she felt it was the best way to scare away all the sex-starved teenage boys who were creeping out of the woodwork. In steps Ingrid's hairdresser. From the moment she sat down in his chair, he refused to touch Ingrid's beautiful blonde hair, much less cut it. Rather, he demanded that she model for one of his campaigns. From this point on, at the age of fifteen, Ingrid's future path as one of the world's top models was set in stone. Her hairdresser took Ingrid to a photographer in Brussels, who in turn escorted her to a modeling agency in Belgium. While shuffling schoolwork and modeling jobs, Ingrid focused on her newfound dream of becoming a professional model. Then in 1991, her biggest break of them all came when she won the coveted Elite Look of the Year contest in New York. Needless to say, this great victory opened up many doors for Ingrid in the modeling world. In 1993, she graced the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which granted her a great deal of exposure in the North American market.

Since winning the Look of the Year contest in 1991, Ingrid has been represented by Elite Model Management. She has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and commercials around the world and has worked as a runway model for many of today's top fashion designers including Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera and Joan Vass. In 1995, Ingrid kicked her career into overdrive when she landed a modeling stint for a Guess? campaign shot by Dewey Nicks in Hawaii. The campaign was recognized across the world thereby boosting her popularity a notch or two in the realm of the fashion world.

Nowadays, Ingrid is forever growing as a model, while spreading her wings in other areas as well. Recently, she has guest-hosted for a variety of television programs such as Entertainment Tonight and Extra, while pursuing her career as one of the world's premiere models of today's day and age. So kids, what's the moral of today's little story? That's right, you guessed it: regardless what she tries to tell you, mother does not always know best. And that's the bottom line. While the career of a supermodel may seem like one of the most glamorous of lifestyles to many, it is apparently a very hectic and pressure-filled one as well. Yeah, yeah, it's always the same story; you hear the models talking about how difficult it is to get up in the mornings and be flown to these beautiful remote destinations in order to have their photographs taken all day. Real challenging work, right? Well, if you think about it, it most probably is. Would you want to have people staring at you 24/7, 365 days a year, constantly touching you, fixing you up and watching your every move? It's not likely you would.

This is where Miss Seynhaeve has managed to amaze us the most. She has made millions as one of the world's top runway models and it has a lot more to do with her outer shell. By combining style, dignity, grace, and a well-composed frame of mind, she has managed to excel at what she does. So read on and find out why she has clearly proven herself to be one of Belgium's finest creations to date... right after their waffles of course. When considering the extensive amount of exposure that Ingrid must deal with in her career, she has still managed to maintain a fairly secretive lifestyle. Coming across dirty gossip with regards to her personal life is like getting a cat to bark. It just doesn't happen.

But at the same time she has become known as a very friendly, suave and professional person. She's like a stealth bomber jet; looks good, is hard to detect, while at the same time is capable of creating quite the stir (with her good looks, of course). Oh and get this: she's intelligent too. Not only does she speak one language, or two, but she has also opted to become fluent in five. Much of this is due to her profession's hectic traveling schedule. Another reason is because she was raised in Belgium and now spends most of her time divided between New York and Paris. The land of B.O. and the Big Apple -- most definitely two of the world's finest places to visit. Ingrid has also spent part of her career as a model for Victoria's Secret. A free catalogue full of gorgeous women in lingerie; does it get any better? Well maybe if it came strapped to a 12-pack of beer, but beggars can't be choosers. And don't even try to pretend that you've never heard of the catalogue before.

You know exactly what we're talking about. It's the catalogue that arrives in your mailbox every now and then, which miraculously seems to disappear whenever your wife/girlfriend/spouse goes looking for it. Sorry honey, I haven't seen it. It must've gotten lost in the mail. Uh-huh. But getting back to the topic at hand, Ingrid is one of the sexiest women out there. If she weren't, she wouldn't be posing alongside Mother Nature's epitomes of perfection: Tyra Banks and Stephanie Seymour.