ABOUT CASEY LEGLER
Former Olympic swimmer turned model who became the world's first women to sign a contract as a male Ford Model. She was initially offered a modeling job by a friend where she was put into men's clothing and the images were then shared to Ford.
She was a competitive swimmer by the age of 13. She competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics at 19.
She placed 29th in the Women's 50 meter Freestyle event and 10th in the Women's 4x100 meter Freestyle Relay event in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
She was born in Frejus, France. After her swimming career, she received a scholarship for law school before switching to medicine. She left both to move to New York to pursue modeling.
Her friend and photographer Cass Bird used her in a photo essay called Out with the Boys using all women models, including Victoria Secret model Candice Swanepoel .
