“My parents always used to complain about my eating habits. I was different. I was wrong. Everything had to be plain or boiled. I was 14 before I ate pasta with tomato sauce. My dad would take me to the best restaurants, and all I would eat was rice with olive oil.”

Italian-American actor, fashion model, and spokesman

Fabio Lanzoni, known simply as Fabio, is an Italian-American actor, fashion model, and spokesman. He became widely familiar through his career as a romance novel cover model in the late 1980s and 1990s. He later worked across film, television, music, and books, often appearing as himself in cameos. He was also the spokesman for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and for the American Cancer Society.