Channeling my inner China Machado here. If you've never seen this epically beautiful model from the past, Sophia has a great selection of her pictures. Here's my personal favorite.
www.flickr.com/photos/skorver1/33914112964/in/album-72157...
Her birth name was Noelie de Souza Machado and she was born in 1929, in Shanghai. I guess being half Chinese & half Portuguese made her very exotic for the times, and she spent a lot of time in Europe. One of her boyfriends was a bullfighter who later left her for Ava Gardner. (I guess if your lover's going to ditch you for another woman, it's hard to feel bad about yourself if he left you for Ava).
I don't know how she acquired the name 'China', but it sounds like a marketing ploy. Anyway, she was legendary.
