
Reeva: From law student to cover girl —
A young Reeva Steenkamp poses for a set of photographs taken by her schoolfriend Kerry Smith on the beach at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Reeva: From law student to cover girl —
The then 21-year-old was a law student, but had ambitions of becoming a professional model.

Reeva: From law student to cover girl —
Steenkamp's friend Kerry Smith took the amateur photos of the wannabe model on the beach near where she grew up eight years ago.

Reeva: From law student to cover girl —
The Port Elizabeth beach is the same location where her parents scattered her ashes earlier this month.

Reeva: From law student to cover girl —
Kerry Smith, tells CNN: "If anything that's Reeva in her natural beauty. Not a stitch of makeup on. Hair blowing in the wind with the sea behind her, sun setting behind her."

Reeva: From law student to cover girl —
Just a few years later, Steenkamp would have transformed herself into a cover girl.


