# Yasmin Warsame (Yaasmiin Warsame)

> Yasmin Warsame (born 1976): Mogadishu-born Canadian model on Vogue covers, Canada's Next Top Model judge and actor.

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## Who is she?

Yasmin Abshir Warsame is a Somali-Canadian model and activist ([Wikipedia, Yasmin Warsame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Warsame)). In 2004 a poll by *Fashion* magazine named her "The Most Alluring Canadian" (same source).

## Early life

She was born in Mogadishu on 5 May 1976 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Warsame)). At 15 she moved with her family to Toronto (same source). See [Somalis in Toronto](/en/diaspora/toronto/).

## Modelling

In 2000 she began modelling again with Ford Models in Toronto, with a booking for the Sears catalogue ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Warsame)). In 2002 she moved to NEXT Models Canada and then to Paris (same source). She has worked with agencies in Toronto, Montreal, Paris, [London](/en/diaspora/london/), New York, Barcelona and Amsterdam (same source).

She has appeared on the covers of *Vogue Italia*, American *Vogue*, American and British *Elle*, *Amica* and *Surface* ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Warsame)). She has walked couture and ready-to-wear shows for designers from Christian Dior to Jean Paul Gaultier (same source). Her advertising work includes Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Hermès, Shiseido, Chanel, Gap and H&M (same source). See [Iman](/en/people/iman/).

## Television and film

In 2007 she was a judge on the second season of *Canada's Next Top Model* ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Warsame)). Her first acting role was in *[The Gravedigger's Wife](/en/society/somali-cinema/)* (2021), directed by [Khadar Ayderus Ahmed](/en/people/khadar-ayderus-ahmed/) (same source). She lives in New York and Toronto (same source).

## In short

A Mogadishu-born model who appeared on the covers of Vogue Italia and American Vogue, and later turned to television and film.

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