If you see a statuesque beauty fiddling on a laptop during a casting call or in between modeling gigs, that's probably none other than Lyndsey Scott.
Aside from being the new dream girl for geeks, nerds, and tech heads alike for her app-making skills, the 29-year-old stunner is a model who has walked the runways for Victoria's Secret, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Givenchy, Diane von Furstenberg, and Prada. She's also graced the pages of British Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and W.
Despite her modeling achievements, she said she's prouder of getting her apps okayed by Apple.
The 5'9 beauty is a "self-taught programmer" who, according to CNN, "spends her spare time building mobile apps."
"With modeling, you never have control over anything. So being able to have complete power with these apps I develop is very fulfilling," Scott revealed to CNN.
Of the various applications she developed, two of them are currently sold in the App store. Impressive!
Her programming skills go way back in high school, when she "taught herself the software documentation and quickly learned how to program on her TI-89 calculator." She said that she didn't even realize she was already coding at that time. "I first got into it just to make fun games and entertain myself," the 5 foot 9 model explained.
However, her nifty skills didn't make her one of the It girls at school. In fact, she was bullied incessantly.
"I didn't technically start being bullied until my super awkward high school years, where I all of a sudden found myself at 5 feet 9 inches and 89 pounds," she told Slate. "I was a late-bloomer. I didn't really start looking like a model until after college, so it's been a rather jarring experience having people see and treat me the way they suddenly do now."
"I was bullied and often friendless throughout puberty because people automatically judged me as being someone I was not."
Later on, during her time at Amherst College, she learned Java, C++, and MIPS while doing a course in computer science and theater. However, things got cut short when she decided to pursue a career in modeling. Her Calvin Klein gig during New York Fashion Week in 2009 was her big break - she went on to land more contracts with big names in the fashion industry.
Right now, her second life as a programmer is secondary to her modeling career. However, she continues to sharpen her coding mettle by teaching herself to program Objective-C and Python.
"We have this idea of people in technology being and looking a certain way," Scott said. "That stereotype is destructive, and I think that's part of the reason why female and minority programmers are so few."
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