Gena Lee Nolin was born November 29, 1971 in the intellectual capital of the Midwest, Duluth, Minnesota. When she was a senior in high school her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where not too long after, Gena Lee entered a beauty pageant and earned herself the title of "Ms. Las Vegas." From there, she had the honor of winning the Look of the Year award from bigwig agents, the Elite and Ford modeling agencies, as well as the "Miss Barbizon USA" title (yeah, we don't know either)