IT WAS, LIKE, REALLY LATE AND a school night and stuff, but Brooke Robinson was still dressed because-get this-her parents told her someone from the Salesmanship Club of Dallas would be coming by the house to videotape her father. He had supposedly been picked for membership and they, like, wanted to interview the entire Robinson family. The film crew had been there for 30 minutes when suddenly the phone rang. “This is Seventeen magazine calling,” Brooke heard the voice on the other end say. “Can you hold for Matt LeBlanc?”
Matt LeBlanc?!! Before the Hockaday senior could even, like, clue in on the moment, the hunky “Friends” star was on the line and the cameras were turned on her. “He was just like, ’Brooke, you’re on the cover,’ ” recalls Robinson, the Kim Dawson model who beat out 34,999 entrants to win this year’s Seventeen Cover Model Contest. “I was just like ’Ohmygosh!’ 1 didn’t know what to say.” The spot later ran on “Entertainment Tonight” and she and LeBlanc appeared cheek to cheek on the October cover.
Robinson is just the latest (fourth, for those counting) Kim Dawson model to be selected, following in the footsteps of Highland Park High School graduate Angie Harmon, Arlington High School grad Elissa Chaney and Plano Senior High School’s Carol Monteverde. “It says to me that we’re finding the right teenage looks,” says Lisa Dawson, director of the Kim Dawson Agency.
Robinson was recovering from knee surgery and hobbling around on crutches when a scout spotted her at Banana Republic. Had she ever considered modeling? “I never had.” says the 5-foot, 11-inch brunette. “I always wanted to be a soccer player.” In the three years since multiple knee surgeries forced her to give up soccer, she’s appeared in ads for Foley’s, JCPenney and Just Add Water. Now Calvin Klein is calling for her book. But Robinson, underwhelmed by the prospects of a modeling career, appears poised to follow not in the footsteps of Harmon (the 1988 winner who has moved on to acting, appearing as a regular on “Baywatch Nights”), but in the footsteps of Chaney. the 1991 winner who’s given up modeling for college. “My first priority is school.” says Robinson, who plans to study child psychology at the University of Texas. “My friends are always like, ’You get paid so much fordoing .nothing.’ But, to me, it’s just another job.”
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