Born in Australia on the 30th of May, 1989, the young model lived a modest life with her mother and grandparents in Logan, which is in the north eastern Australian state of Queensland. She was never in love with school, and wanted to be an auto mechanic originally, but fate had other plans...
The stunningly beautiful Australian model has emerged as a new force in the fashion industry, and after completing her fashion show season in 2007 as a 17-year-old, she's already been labelled a model watch.
Her desire to be a mechanic (word on the street is that she loves machines, perhaps this should be an article on the Motoring Channel?) was put on hold after she won the 2003 Girlfriend Magazine model search, which resulted in a trip to New York to meet with a modeling agency.
She ended up signing on with Next, one of the larger and more sought-after agencies, but it wasn't jet setting from the age of 14. Catherine was happy to hear that her agents were very impressed with her natural look, but they said that she needed to grow and mature, and so she was sent back to Australia with the proviso "Call us in a few years".
For the next three years, between 2004 and 2006, McNeil's local modeling career began to blossom, and she spent a lot of time in Sydney working on ad campaigns for the likes of Zimmerman, Cue, Alannah Hill, and Myer, and was featured in glossies such as Madison, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar.
In the first half of 2006 at the age of 17, Catherine McNeil was standing 180cm tall, and had lost much of her puppy fat that was part of her adolescence when she won the 2003 Girlfriend magazine model thingy. She returned to New York, to the Next Modeling Agency and the rest,as they sometimes say in poorly-researched online features, is history.
