Katie Rost has been working as a professional model for just over a decade. She's been on every side of the modeling world from high fashion shows in Paris for design houses like Lanvin to mainstream catalogue companies like JCrew and Saks Fifth Avenue. She's been a muse for fashion icon Stephen Burrows since her first years in New York and still does his New York fashion week shows. Katie's been in commercials and advertising for a broad spectrum of clients from John Frieda and Belvedere Vodka to L'oreal and Hanes. She's truly made a career in an industry where most girls only last a season.
Katie is the host of a weekly celebrity gossip segment "Katie's Celebrity Hookup" on the hit CW syndicated television show "Direct Access With Big Tigger". Every week she hits the hot spots around the country interviewing celebs and getting the inside scoop on their projects and passions.
Katie graduated from Boston University with a degree in journalism but only recently began sharing her satirical/humorist writing style with the world as a popular blogger. Katie's inspirations come from other humorists and politically incorrect troublemakers from the past like HL Mechen and Art Buchwald.
In 2009 Katie was asked by Vogue magazine to join The Vogue 100, a group of intriguing and fashionable women from around the country that act as arbiters of style.
In 2010 Vogue and Covergirl honored Katie with an ad celebrating her spirit, beauty and style in the bible of fashion, the September Issue of Vogue Magazine.
Katie is active in the philanthropic community in the Washington metropolitan area. In November of 2009 Katie was nominated for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's 2010 Woman of the Year and put together a formitable team of philanthropists dubbed "Team Believe" to help her raise over $56,000 during her campaign. Visit www.believeinacureforcancer.com to learn more.
Katie splits her time between Northern Virginia, Potomac Maryland and New York City.
Every week Katie dishes the dirt on todays hottest stars on Katie's Celebrity Hookup. The wildly popular segment is featured on the syndicated show "Direct Access with Big Tigger"
You can catch the show in your area on your local CW network Fridays at midnight and Saturdays at 11pm.
