12. Iman

The Somalian beauty is a proud Muslim who has struggled to find a balance between her religion and demands of her work as a model throughout her career, but has managed to create a positive self-image that she helps spread and teach to all individuals with self-esteem issues.

Born Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid and better known as Iman, which in Arabic means “faith”, discussed at great lengths how Muslim women are taught to treat their bodies as temples, which goes against a modern version of modeling which allows the model to expose her body to the world.

The 59-year-old wife of David Bowie married the U.K. rock star in a church in Italy despite her religious beliefs.