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King of Romance Fabio Opens Up About Looking For Love — and Staying Sexy — at 62
It was the summer of 1987 when Fabio Lanzoni became simply Fabio. Then a successful model—Gap, Versace—he was dancing in a Miami club with that comic-book- hero jaw, those blue eyes, the hair like a member of Whitesnake and a chest like He-Man's.
The sum of his parts: The Ideal Man.
"Then these three girls come over and say, 'You look exactly like the guy on our books!'" Fabio remembers in this week's issue of PEOPLE.
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"I said, 'That's a good pickup line.'"
He had no idea what they were talking about. Fabio had posed for a few photographs that were going to become book covers, but he hadn't yet seen any of them. The women left and returned with novels in hand.
"I go like, 'Oh my God, that's me,'" he says. "It was the first time I saw myself on the cover of the books."
Fabio had arrived.
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