Leigh Christian

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the oldest child of six siblings to Dottie and Harlow, teenage parents of Polish and German heritage. Participating in the Arts throughout high school; she was editor of the three page school newspaper, and won 1st Prize for a paper-mache sculpture of a boldly striped yellow and black Octopus. When competing in the Drama Division of the annual Forensics contests for a monologue from the play: "Anna Karenina," which ends with her falling to her death on the train tracks; she lost the 1st prize by only one vote. She knew she had to leave Pittsburgh to fulfill her dreams, and her 1st stop was Kansas City, where a blizzard blanketed the tarmac and grounded the plane; she ended up staying there four years. She signed with Thelma Weir's Monza Modeling Agency in 1964, and landed the Seagram's billboard campaign portraying the big movie stars from the 'Golden Days of Hollywood', and two national commercials: Firestone and Blue Cross. She signed a talent cont