Early Life
Cassie Ventura was born on August 26, 1986 in New London, Connecticut; the daughter of a Filipino father and a mother of African-American and Mexican ethnicity, Stacey Hobson. She attended the Williams School, a preparatory school, located on the Connecticut College campus in her hometown of New London. At the age of fourteen Cassie began modeling, and when she was sixteen, she was modeling for local department stores, Delia's fashion catalog, and Seventeen. Cassie also briefly appeared in R&B singer Mario "Just a Friend 2002" music video. Encouraged by producer Rockwilder, Cassie took vocal lessons as well as using her schools performing arts program, taking modern ballet. Cassie finished high school in 2004, instead of going to college like her peers she moved to New York city, where she returned to modeling and classes at the Broadway Dance Center. Whilst Cassie was in New York Cassie began booking print and commercial modeling gigs and being represented by Wilhelmina Models.
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