Sasckya Slothower was born in northeastern Brazil and competed in beauty pageants from the age of 13, eventually coming in fifth in the Miss Brazil World pageant. In her late teens, she traveled to Boston to attend college, modeling in the Saks showroom and appearing in a fashion show headed up by basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce. She soon became bored with Massachusetts, she says, and moved to New York, finding a room in a model apartment on East 49th Street. She posed in Stella…

