JSTOR ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Describing her early years and modeling career, Buell said, ' to be a professional singer I came to New York-yes, I was a pretty young girl, so I fell into the modeling thing, and I did Playboy, so then the rock stars came a-hunting, as I like to say.' Music She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Career Modeling īuell was discovered by modeling agency executive Eileen Ford after high school graduation at age 17, and relocated to New York City at age 18. The nurses in the hospital took to calling her 'Baby Buell,' which is where her nickname of 'Bebe' originated. As her father was not at home at the time of Buell's birth, her mother waited until he got back before naming her daughter. The paperback was issued in 2002.īuell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the daughter of Dorothea (Brown) Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, and Harold Lloyd Buell, a U.S. The book was a New York Times bestseller. Martin's Press (with Victor Bockris), Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey. In 2001 Buell published her autobiography with St. Todd Rundgren is Liv's legally adoptive father.

She is the mother of actress Liv Tyler (born 1977), whose biological father is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Buell moved to New York in 1972 after signing a modeling contract with Eileen Ford, and garnered notoriety after her publicized relationship with musician Todd Rundgren from 1972 until 1978, as well as her liaisons with several rock musicians during that time and over the following four decades. She was Playboy magazine's November 1974 Playmate of the Month. Beverle Lorence ' Bebe' Buell (born July 14, 1953) is an American singer and model.

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