Eileen Ford
Entrepreneur
Co-founded modeling agency Ford Models, which redefined feminine beauty and was one of the pioneer modeling agencies.
She worked as a secretary, stylist, copywriter, and reporter.
Her list of models featured such notable celebrities as Jerry Hall, Christie Brinkley, Rene Russo, Kim Basinger, Janice Dickinson, and Lauren Hutton.
She married Gerard W. Ford in November 1944 and she had four children named Katie, Billy, Lacey and Jaime. She and Gerard co-founded Ford Models in 1946.
Her agency represented Martha Stewart when she was modeling in the early 1960s.