Supermodel Tatjana Patitz has died at age 56. Vogue, which helped launch Patitz’s career in the 1980s, announced news of her death on Jan. 11. Her cause of death was not initially made public, but was later confirmed by her agent to be breast cancer.

Considered one of the original supermodels, the Germany-born, Sweden-raised Patitz entered her first modeling contest at age 17 in Stockholm. Though she took home third place, it wasn’t until famed photographer Peter Lindbergh photographed her a few years later in 1988 that her career started to blossom.

One of Patitz’s most memorable appearances came after she modeled for British Vogue in 1990 — George Michael cast her for his “Freedom ’90” music video alongside Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista.

source yahoo.com