| Moran Atias was born in Haifa, Israel on April 9, 1981. After spending a few years of her childhood in Los Angeles, she moved back to Israel with her family. When she was 15, she won an audition in Tel Aviv to host Out of Focus, a show for teens broadcast on Israeli television. In 1996, she entered and won the Miss Globe International beauty contest in Istanbul, Turkey, and the following year she won the Top Model of the World title in Germany. Atias left the Middle East for Europe at the age of 17, initially working out of Germany as a model. She was crowned Miss Israel in 1998, and later resettled in Milan, Italy, where her career really began to take off. She soon became a model for Versace, appearing in print campaigns and runway shows for the fashion giant, as well as other houses of design. In addition to her work as a model, the Israeli beauty took the broadcasting skills she had honed as a teenager in her native land to the television screens of Italy. She has cohosted various national variety and talk shows, such as Matricole & Meteore and Carramba, with Italian TV legend Raffaella Carra. Channel 5's Italiani, with Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti, was the program that helped boost Atias' celebrity profile. While the show itself was not a major hit with the viewing public, her popularity as one of the program's five "bellissime" (beauties) made her a household name in Italy. More TV hosting gigs followed, including Superconvenscion with Natascia Stefanenko, Domenica In and I Raccomandati, which she cohosted with Carlo Conti. In 2003, Atias broke out beyond modeling and TV hosting to try her hand at pop music with the release of her debut album, Sphynx. She has also become better known outside of Italy with a series of sexy calendars, which showcase all her magnificent attributes. In June 2005, she was one of the judges for the Miss Italia nel Mondo beauty contest. Other members of the international jury included Swedish model Marcus Schenkenberg and Argentinean soccer god Diego Maradona.
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