Romance novel cover model fabio biography

48 Inches

Fabio’s chest circumference.

Romance Novel Cover King Fabio Remembers His 1993 PEOPLE ...

That’s about 122 centimeters for our metric system-using readers.

76 Years

The approximate amount of time it takes a white oak tree to grow to a circumference of 48 inches.

4 90-Minute Sessions Per Week

Fabio’s weightlifting and cardio regimen, as told on a television interview in the 1990s.

15 Minutes

How long it allegedly took Fabio from arriving at Ford Models in New York without an appointment to getting a contract.

1987

When Fabio appeared on the cover of Johanna Lindsey’s Hearts Aflame.

Elaine Duillo, the legendary artist who painted that cover from a photograph of Fabio, had previously used his image on the back of Bertrice Small’s Enchantress Mine.

When Enchantress Mine sold well, Duillo put Fabio front and center on Lindsey’s Viking romance. Duillo said Hearts Aflame was her first “major cover” with Fabio, but she does not remember the actual first.