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Patricia Cleveland was born June 23, 1950 is an American fashion model who initially attained success in the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the first African-American models within the fashion industry to achieve prominence as a runway model and print model. Cleveland was born in New York City in 1950 to Johnny Johnston, a white jazz saxophonist of Irish and Swedish ancestry, and Lady Bird Cleveland, an artist of African-American and Native-American ancestry. Her parents separated when she was young and she was raised by her mother in Harlem. She studied performing arts at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and studied design at New York’s High School of Art and Design and hoped to become a fashion designer. Some of her earliest photographs as a youngster were taken by Carl Van Vechten, who was among her mother’s coterie of artist friends. In 1978, Pat Cleveland married male model Martin Snaric, the two would later divorce. In 1982 she married Dutch former model and fashion photographer Paul van Ravenstein, with whom she has two children, Noel van Ravenstein was born in 1984 and Anna Cleveland van Ravenstein was born 1989, who has also become a fashion model.Cleveland is a devotee of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, the current spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path. In addition to her writing, running her business, and public appearances, Cleveland is also on a quest to get her mother, Ladybird Cleveland’s art accepted into the Smithsonian Institution. Cleveland’s career as a model began in 1966 when she was on a subway platform with a friend en route to class and was noticed by Carrie Donovan, an assistant fashion editor at Vogue. Donovan, impressed by Cleveland’s fashionable clothing, invited her to tour the Vogue offices and the magazine subsequently published a feature on her as an up-and-coming young designer. The article led to her being approached by Ebony who asked Cleveland if she would perform as model for their Fashion Fair national runway tour. Cleveland agreed and decided she would place her aspirations to be a designer on hold and try her luck as a fashion model.