// // ]]> Before Whitney Houston ever topped a billboard chart, she graced the covers and pages of magazines... While singing with her mother at Carnegie Hall, Whitney was spotted by a photographer who soon helped her with the launch of a modeling career. Whitney was one of the first black women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine in November of 1981. She was also was featured in layouts for Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Young Miss among others. She went on to appear in a TV commercia[...]