And here's proof, including rare modeling images from when she was a teenager.
1991: Charlize would have been 16 here.
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1991: Making this bathing suit work.
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1993: Sporty Spice.
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1993: What idiot put her next to the headline "Beautiful bras for the not-so-beautiful bosom"? Fools.
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