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Cassie Betts was born March 15th, 1978 in Southern California. Although born in California, she only recently calls it home. When she was still a toddler, her family moved to Illinois. Throughout her childhood, she lived in various small towns in Illinois. As a young girl, she always knew she would be a fashion designer. She would cut up ruffled socks to make dresses for her Barbie dolls and use any type of fabric she could get her hands on to make clothes for her Cabbage Patch Kids. As a teenager, her family once again uprooted and moved even farther than California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, where she graduated from Kaimuki High school. She designed all of her own dresses for homecoming, prom and any of her formal high school dances. Before graduating high school, she attended Kapiolani Community College and The University of Hawaii. “Hawaii is where I blossomed into a woman.” Explains Cassie of her beloved island. “It’s the place and the people I most identify with.” After being abandoned by her father, at the age of 20, she moved back to her birth-place of Los Angeles, Ca. in hopes of breaking into the fashion industry. To pay the bills she had a short go with several telemarketing agencies. Knowing that she did not want to end up in a cubicle getting hung up on for the rest of her life, she quickly enrolled at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. She was on a mission to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a fashion designer. She began acting and modeling out of curiosity and as a means of financing her college education. “Acting and modeling was fun at first, but after a while I found no pleasure in that way of life. I was doing movies, videos, commercials and photo shoots solely for the money. In fact, the money was so good and came so fast, that if it wasn’t for my son, I don’t know how I would have ever let go of that career.” Cassie had always kept one foot in the fashion industry. She has designed a number of dresses worn by celebrities on the red carpet, and consignment pieces for several boutiques on Melrose. Before graduating from FIDM in 2000, she interned for well-known men’s designer Brian McKinney, famous for dressing some of Hollywood‘s most prominent African-American men. Within a couple of years, she had proven her design abilities and worked her way up to Designer. After giveng birth to her first child, Cassie decided to take full advantage of her degree in fashion design. She discontinued acting and modeling and worked as a full time designer. She’s designed for major lingerie, urban-contemporary, denim and licensing companies. Her main focus is now back to her first love, high-end couture dresses. The world is sure to see and hear more of Cassie Betts.