I never really grew up around the Asian culture unfortunately, I was always familiar with my mom's side of the family, eating pasole, empanadas, and drinking horchata. I know a little Spanish and I can understand Tagalog. As of right now, I am trying to speak it without butchering the language. Haha.

I was born to be a rockstar according to my dad. Even as a child I had a love for entertaining people...whether it was standing on my mom's bed with her hairbrush singing along to Tiffany or singing the "loco motion", to doing impressions of my family members until they cried laughing. My first taste of the entertainment business started at the very young age of one; where I appeared in the Johnson&Johnsons baby commercial for shampoo. My mom, Princess Garcia was a model at the time and had her agent get me gigs as a baby! It wasn't long after until stardom was meant to find me again...

I moved to Los Angeles, California in July of 1993, where I continued to have a passion entertaining people. I was always the class clown, which eventually got me as Class Clown of 2000 of my senior class in high school. Oddly enough, I was very shy growing up in Canada, but came out of my shell and started doing plays in theatres, the first one I remember, was playing Mary; the mother of Jesus in third grade. Soon after I was doing print work for kids in the catalogs of JCPenney and Zellers, which is a department store in Canada.

There were periods in between where I just concentrated on school, just focusing on getting good grades and deciding which college to go to...meanwhile doing runway shows in between. It was then in my junior year of high school that my career in modeling and acting had started...

I was approached by Andrew of Emmense Visions in the Fall of 1999. He was the owner of a car part company and was looking for fresh faces to represent his company and asked if I would do a test shoot first to see if I liked it or not, so I did one and first appeared on his website where I received many other offers from several agencies, as well as club promoters and car crews. A year later, he relocated back to east coast and I stayed in Los Angeles to be a free agent. Now I primarily do flyer, album cover, print, and fashion work. I also do portfolios for photographers.

PAST WORK

Label of triple9records, dearingfilm, neowerkes expo, babyphat, streetracing.org, importmodels.com, team eminence, emmence visions, lowered2perfection, idreambox, intence, Umodels, eyecandy, Number 1 on Top 50 Pinays (Manila, PI), asianmodel expo, apt. 107, Fresh Faces, Johnson & Johnson, Racemode, Import culture, asianscene, TekRebel, Irrational Imports, everspeed, speedoptions, modified, Pert Plus, etc.

DID YOU KNOW THAT VANESSA...

- is allergic to penicillin?
- has a fear of heights and the dark?
- loves pickles and salt & vinegar chips?
- snores when she sleeps
- has a beauty mark on the left side of her face, beside her lips
- loves Costco hotdogs
- her favorite candies are red vines and jelly belly jellybeans
- hates tofu
- took gymnastics for 2 years
- was in the band in junior high and played the flute
- played the piano for a year
- has no piercings or tattoos...yet