When she’s not in front of a camera, Biotherm girl Tasha Tilberg keeps it real with gardening and music.
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I first met Tasha Tilberg 15 years ago, when she was 15 years old. The industry was buzzing about the pixie with the angel face, so I booked her for a fashion shoot to see what all the excitement was about. She was terribly young, and the sample-size clothes swam on her, but her intense gaze, quirky personality and natural beauty won everyone over. I knew that it was only a matter of time before she left Canada for starrier skies, and, sure enough, she quickly rose to fame in the mid-’90s, when fashion started turning its back on the overexposed supermodels, and the waifs, including Tilberg, marched in.
Today, Tilberg is back in Toronto as the face of Rides Repair, the new skin-care line from Biotherm. We meet in L’Oréal’s busy headquarters, and I’m flattered that she remembers me. With her luminous skin, cropped hair and sheer blue Jeremy Laing dress, Tilberg is still gorgeous, but there’s no sign of the signature nose ring that used to lend a unique toughness to her fragile frame and delicate face. When I remind her of her famous accessory, she laughs and shrugs. “I still have it, and I find [the reaction it gets] very interesting,” she says. “If I’m walking in an airport and I don’t have it in, I get a lot of [unwanted] attention from guys. I get a different level of attention when I wear it. It keeps people away from me. It’s like a shield, but I just like it aesthetically.”
Tilberg has changed in other ways too. When she’s not working, she now divides her time between Vancouver and Los Angeles, and her current interests are knitting, studying music (piano, guitar and violin) and gardening. “I like digging in the earth and planting stuff,” she says. “It balances me out. I do a job and come home and mellow out. It keeps me healthy and gives me a good perspective on things.”
Check out our video of Tasha as ELLE's cover girl
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