Marisa Lee Bertetta Born in Santa Cruz, California, Miller attended high school at Aptos High and Monte Vista Christian School. She considered herself a tomboy growing up, with mostly male friends and little knowledge of everything girly. From embarrassment, they often had large t-shirts to hide her body fully dressed and just want to trash, while at the beach.
Miller was first "discovered" at the age of sixteen to go through a cafe in San Francisco by two Italian modeling agents. After speaking with her mother Krista Bertetta, she was on a plane to Italy with her mother a few months later, despite her "shy and conservative" personality. Miller came to fame when she starred in a 1997 issue of Perfect 10 magazine. Though she was third behind Ashley Degen Ford and Monica Hansen in Perfect 10 magazine first annual model search, she was repeatedly displayed in the following subjects, including covers of the Winter 1998 and August / September 1999 editions and a reprint of the Fall 2004 edition cover.
Careers
Miller moved from starting as an amateur magazine model to high profile regular work after a friend from a photo of the famous fashion photographer Mario Testino in 2001 showed. Testino asked to meet Miller, who run a surf school at that time and was invited to Manhattan Beach, California, where she would surf.
Take her, Testino snapped pictures of her and approached her with a job offer, it is shown that the leaders of both the American and Italian editions of Vogue. Within six months Miller was working for Victoria's Secret and the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, where she appeared in all questions 2002-2008. Especially famous until she was wearing an iPod in the 2007 series. She has also appeared in numerous journals, many of them international editions, such as GQ, Maxim, glamor, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle and Vanity Fair, but also work on advertising for Nordstrom, J. Crew, Guess?, Tommy Hilfiger, Pepsi, Panasonic, Bath & Body Works, True Religion jeans, Motorcycle Company and Harley-Davidson, with whom she first partner to launch VRSCF V-Rod Muscle motorcycle in 2008 and returned in November 2009 to serve as the face and spokesmodel for the company first "Military Appreciation Month" campaign, with Miller as a classic pin-up in military-themed ads and online content. In July 2008, Miller took her first step beyond modeling when her shoe line with the skateboarder / surfer-oriented company Vans launched.

Miller backstage at the Fashion for Relief receives the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Miller's first TV spot came as a judge on the Bravo reality series Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model in 2004, the same year she appeared in the lake of "Mudd's Spin You Around" music video. 2007 brought appearances in the pilot episode and the finale of VH1's reality show The Shot and cameo in HBO's Entourage and the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, [15], the latter with her fellow Victoria's Secret Angels. In 2009 she was a guest judge role in an episode of America's Next Top Model and a less important role in an episode of Gary Unmarried. It was not until 2007 that she filmed her first television commercial for Victoria's Secret, are displayed along with Heidi Klum for the bra. Miller played in 2008 with a viral video on YouTube All-Star baseball player Ryan Braun for Remington Shortcut clippers and appeared in commercials for the NFL Network and the California Travel and Tourism Commission "Visit California" campaign.
The December 4, 2007, the debut of the Miller's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and opened a compartment in the release of the next year. Other runway credits include 2007's of Miller's Fashion for Relief show receives victims of Hurricane Katrina, [2] and MTV Fashionably Loud, Imitation of Christ, Inca, and Amir Slama's Rosa Cha, where she was one of the most anticipated models.
On February 12, 2008 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, was announced via a three-story billboard in New York City, that Miller would grace the cover of this years Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Tandem online launch of the issue drew record page views on the SI website: 228 million, an increase of 41% over 2007. In September 2008, Sports Illustrated published a "Best of Marisa Miller 'swimsuit calendar for 2009 years.
Victoria's Secret also put her to work in 2008, with a five-city tour for the release of the 2008 Swim collection in stores in April-May tour included stops in promoting New York City, Miami, Chicago (where she threw the opening pitch at a Chicago Cubs baseball game), Boston and Minneapolis. The relaunch of Victoria Secret's sports bar, VSX, soon followed with her first official campaign as an angel: the promotion of her perfume Very Sexy Dare.
In 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Miller was chosen to bear years of "Fantasy Bra", a 2300 white harlequin design, champagne and cognac diamonds, and a 16-carat heart-shaped brown-yellow diamond pendant for $ 3 - and 150 million worth Total carats.
In response to claims that Miller had with the departure of Victoria's Secret in January 2010, said chief marketing officer for Limited Brands, said the allegations "unfounded and incorrect", while adding "we adore Marisa, and we will continue working with its future
[edit] Media recognition
The swell in publicity resulting from her 2008 work served to land Miller in the number one spot on "Maxim Magazine Hot 100" rankings in 2008, suggested list of regular guests as Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Eva Longoria-Parker. This was the first time anyone has debuted at number one on the list position.In her subsequent cover story for the July issue, Maxim proclaimed her as "back of the great American supermodel." Such a recognition, Miller admits, "I get a kick out of, but it would be foolish to let it go to my head. It's modeling-I did not find a cure to cancer.
She finished first in The Best Damn Sports Show Period "Smokin 'Sixteen" competition in 2008, repeated his 2007 win over competitors such as Gisele Bundchen and Adriana Lima. Miller, second place in Askmen.com 's "Top 99" for 2010, after ranking third in 2009, ninth in 2008, twelfth in 2007, and fourteenth in 2006. She added to her popular accolades with the "Hot N 'Fresh" award at the option of the second annual Spike Guys' Awards.
Personal life
She married Jim Miller, a Los Angeles surfing contest promoter and lifeguard from California in 2000, and divorced him in 2002. They were divorced soon after. She married music producer Griffin Guess, 15 April 2006. From an early age she loved surfing and her aunt tour.In pro in 2004, she placed second in the known distribution of the Kelly Slater Surf Invitational on the sport and says, "I feel absolutely the best-physically, mentally and spiritually when I surf every day. She also won the most valuable player award at the 4th Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl. She was a prominent volleyball player in high school and took boxing. She said she wants to be a sports wheel.
From 2009, Miller is an ambassador for the American Cancer Society, the proceeds from its online store are donated. She also supports the Young Survival Coalition, which raise awareness of breast cancer in women under 40 years performs as well as environmental organization The Surfrider Foundation, which strives for world's oceans and beaches to keep. In October 2009 Miller, host of the "Monte Foundation Music Festival and Fireworks Extravaganza" an annual fundraiser for schools in the Aptos area, where she and Guess even a house.