PEOPLE'S 50 MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE OF1993
People Weekly magazine - May 1993
Photography can be seen in the NonaNet magazine gallery
Her gorgeous mix of glamour, gams and
giggles makes Nona
Gaye the stuff that love songs
are made of. Playing pop muse, however, is not enough for the 18-year-old
daughter of the late R&B legend Marvin Gaye. She has turned balladeer herself, and while her single, “The
Things That We All Do for Love,” climbs up the R&B charts, she occasionally
slinks down runways as one of Giorgio Armani’s top mannequins. “Singing is my
first love,” says Gaye, who
lives in
That there are a full 70 inches of her to unwind was once a source
of consternation to the Californian, who literally outgrew her early dreams of
becoming a ballerina, an ice skater and a gymnast. But Gaye admits that height wasn’t a total hindrance. “I was chubby
when I was little,” she says. “Then I got taller, and it evened out. Luckily, I
have a good metabolism.” She also has hypnotic, almond-shaped eyes (“my best feature”)
and, says Armani, “tenderness and vitality.”
Although
she has had only “maybe three” boyfriends, Gaye is currently involved with an “interesting” man she won’t
name. “I hope,” she says, “our relationship progresses.” Meantime, her talent
seems unstoppable. “When I first met Nona,
she was a delicate beauty who had the world at her feet,” says actor Michael
Douglas, who co-owns Gaye’s
record label, Third Stone. “A year later, she’s developed into a performer
whose sound matches her beauty.” As her dad once sang, “Ain’t
nothing like the real thing.”