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Born in the Bronx, J. Alexander (known also as Miss J) originally trained to become an accountant. But a chance encounter at sixteenwhile dressed in dragwith the impressed President of Elite Model Management got him signed to the agency and off to walk runway for designer Jean Paul Gaultier.There he met fresh model Tyra Banks and began to give her walking lessons.Banks coined his title Queen of theCatwalk.Hisaccidental career as a backstage runway coach took offcoaching such future supermodels as Naomi Campbell and Kimora Lee (Simmons)and led him around the world casting and coaching models for countless top-name designers.NowJ. Alexanderis atelevision personality,well known for his work as the runway coach and a judge on Americas Next Top Model.He currently lives in Paris.