Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Kristian Alfonso seemed to be destined for success and stardom from an early age. As a young girl she trained in dancing and figure skating, and at the age of 13, she won a gold medal at the Junior Olympic Figure Skating Championships. However, as Alfonso said on the “Dishing with Soaps” podcast, that was the last time she competed due to a tobogganing accident that changed her whole life. As she said in a 1984 chat with Soap Opera Digest, “I was a competitive ice skater until I crushed my leg. Until four years ago I never even went to a movie!” She doesn’t regret a thing, though. As the actor said on “Dishing with Soaps,” “I would not have the life that I have or the wonderful opportunities.”
And those opportunities started when someone from Wilhelmina models discovered her at a dance competition right before her accident. She was signed by Ford Models and appeared on dozens of magazine covers like Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Vogue, and Italian Bazaar. This also allowed her to travel far and wide— with her mother, of course, since she was under age. “I got to see the world. I had never left the country before in my life,” she said.
Thanks to her visibility from modeling, Alfonso was then discovered by a casting director and when she was just 18, she appeared in her first film, “The Star Maker,” with Rock Hudson and Suzanne Pleshette.
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