Reeva Steenkamp: The Girl Behind The Name
Updated: 2:00pm UK, Friday 28 February 2014
Reeva Steenkamp was born in the South African city of Cape Town in August 1983, to horse trainer Barry Steenkamp and his second wife, June.
The family later moved to Port Elizabeth where she and her siblings grew up.
She attended St Dominic's Priory High School and, at the age of 15, entered a beauty competition organised through her local newspaper where she was spotted by the paper's then beauty editor, Barbara Robertson
"She was 15, and a young 15," Ms Robertson told Sky News.
"There was nothing sophisticated about her. She was sweet, down to earth, earthy ... just one of those girls who had the 'it' factor ... a little bit (of an) early Kate Moss."
While friends speak of an ultimate desire to marry and have a family, the young woman always expected to enjoy a career of her own.
She took a law degree in case her modelling career did not work out.
But the modelling side took off and the gauche, unsophisticated girl from Port Elizabeth moved on to Johannesburg to seek her success.
Originally a brunette, Steenkamp dyed her hair blonde and soon after broke into the glossy world of magazine modelling.
She made the cover of FHM but, said Ms Robertson, the model remained true to herself.
"The front pages made out she was this brazen blonde with boobs hanging out," she said in an interview with The Guardian.
"She was more than a model. She was Reeva. She had studied law at university. I don't think she was seeking bright lights and fame and fortune.
"She was spreading her wings. If she got noticed, what's wrong with that? It doesn't make her a celeb-seducer."
While she continued modelling and was popular on South Africa's A-list circuit, Steenkamp's legal ambitions appeared to resurface.
The future looked bright as she applied to the Bar in 2011, hoping to qualify as a legal advocate by 2013.
Her TV career also looked promising, with a part in a reality TV show Tropika Island of Treasure that looked likely to lead to further opportunities in her professional life.
In November 2012, she began going out with Oscar Pistorius and the couple were said to be deeply in love.
Three months later, Reeva Steenkamp was dead.
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