Selita Ebanks's Trivia: At seventeen, she was discovered at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey by a modeling scout.
Selita Ebanks's Quotation: There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry, I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama,' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something.
At seventeen, she was discovered at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey by a modeling scout.
Her father is a New York police captain.
Helped start the Stardom Youth Foundation in the Cayman Islands.
Served as a mentor in the Seamen's Society of Staten Island.
Played many sports growing up, such as basketball, football and tennis.
The Ebanks family was quite poor, living in what Selita described as a little blue, zinc-roof shack on Walkers Road. Oftentimes, Selita didn't have shoes to wear to Georgetown primary school.
Views Tyra Banks as a mentor, and in 2005 Banks said she was proud of her to be representing for Black women in Victoria's Secret.
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