Vanessa Novoa-Tamahori

Para-Canon Character, though renamed from 'Vanessa Gottlieb' by pickleplum
Vanessa is one of the world's most popular models and a prominent campaigner for environmental restoration.
==Quick Facts==
* Born in London to second-generation Cuban immigrants
** Novoa family's fifth child, matriarch of the Novoa-Tamahori family
* Married to New Zealand's ambassador to the United Kingdom; he later becomes New Zealand's Minister for the Environment
* Faceclaim: Gina Torres
* Down a leg 
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== Personality & Brief Biography ==
Witty, doesn't sugar-coat but isn't harsh. 
The fifth kid in a line of overarchievers: her brothers are a neurosurgeon and a lawyer, her sisters are ... I don't remember. 
Her mother and father had a happy marriage, but they weren't happily married--her mother disclosed to Vanessa privately that she was married to the love of her life but that her parents sent him away.
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