Dayle Haddon (born 26 May 1949) is a best selling author , UNICEF ambassador , and a global spokesperson for L'Oreal . During the earlier part of her career as a supermodel, her face graced the covers of the top fashion magazines, , as well as the cover of Sports Illustrated. Her face is also known to tens of millions of people from her work as a spokesperson with ], Revlon, and Estee Lauder . Haddon also served as a wellness contributor to CBS News where she appeared regularly on The CBS Early Show from 2005-2008.
Haddon was born and raised in Montréal, Québec, Canada - and speaks both English and French. As a child, she was enrolled in dancing classes to develop her physique, and she performed well enough to become a member of Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes at 13. She was chosen Miss Montreal at 18.
Her looks and physique provided an easy entree to modeling, and she quickly became a 1970s and 1980s super model whose face represented Max Factor, Revlon, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal. She appeared on the cover of the 1973 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and was twice named to Harper's Bazaar's "Ten Most Beautiful Women."
Her looks enabled an entry to film, where she landed a role in the Disney movie The World's Greatest Athlete (1973). Disney saw a future for her in their films, but Dayle had other ideas - a pictorial for Playboy. She moved to Europe, continued modeling and acting, and landed a string of art film roles in French and English , as well as occasional small parts in American movies. Her best known roles were in Madame Claude (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979) opposite actor Nick Nolte, and Spermula (1976). She returned to America on marriage and the birth of her daughter, Ryan Haddon.
During Haddon's tenure as a main face for L'Oreal, sales for the Age Perfect line have increased by 50% According to the New York Times, Dayle has "shattered age taboos" with her multi-year contracts with L'Oreal and Estee Lauder, among other companies .
Haddon's husband died suddenly in 1991, leaving her with little money and a 15-year-old daughter to raise alone. No longer able to afford to live in her house in New York City, she eventually found a position in a small advertising agency in Los Angeles, but soon learned that a coyote in a car commercial the agency was filming earned more money than she did.
Clairol selected her as a spokesperson, and she later broke barriers for women over the age of 35 when she became the global face of a new anti-aging line for Estee Lauder, a first ih the beauty industry. On the day that her Estee Lauder contract expired L'Oreal signed her. She now has her own company, Dayle Haddon Concepts Inc, and travels the world as a L'Oreal spokesperson for women of all ages, as well as women over the age of 40. She travels the world to shed light on woemn's lives, and in early 2008 was named a UNICEF ambassador, traveling to different coutnries in Africa to bring attention to the lives of women and children in war-torn regions
