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Sitting upstairs at Mauro's Cafe at Fred Segal's Melrose outpost just hours before jetting to New York for an engagement party thrown by her future in-laws, D'Amore stabs her fork into a plate of rigatoni the size of a Cadillac hubcap and tries to explain how one of the four daughters raised by single dad and pizza parlor entrepreneur Joe D'Amore went from human coat hanger to Hollywood multihyphenate: model-actress-designer-DJ-restaurateur-writer. "I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to work," she says, "that I wanted to be my own boss and do my own thing." D'Amore's independence was born of necessity -- she was only 5 when her mother died (her mom's signature is tattooed inside her left wrist) -- and has served her well, but fate also stepped in at the right moment. First, when she was discovered six years ago having dinner at Ago in Los Angeles and again on the streets of New York City, where she'd gone for what was supposed to be a brief visit. She ended up staying for a year. At 17, she was appearing in Teen and Teen Vogue, walking the runway in New York for designers such as Diane von Furstenberg and learning a valuable lesson. "You can get what you want if you act like there is no other option," she says. Perhaps that's the key. It's certainly what led her to become a DJ. When a producer called to find out if she knew "a hot-looking female DJ" for an event he was producing at the El Rey, she nominated herself. As soon as she put down the phone, she called a friend for advice, dropped five grand on equipment and taught herself just enough to get through the event. Since then, being a DJ has come easy. Three seasons ago, D'Amore brought her skills at the turntable to the parties of L.A. Fashion Week, first by playing Louis Verdad's after-party, and then taking her turntables on stage for a Meghan Fabulous show.

Hollywoods Best Beach Bodies!

Though she does yoga and pilates to keep fit, Uma has a "beautiful, all-natural body," observes Lloyd Krieger, medical director of Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery. "Her abdomen is tight, but she still has feminine curves." However she got there, experts agree she's in tip-top form.

Kirsten, 22, "has excellent muscle tone in her abdomen, arms and legs," said Krieger. "This makes her appearance very youthful but not muscle-bound. She remains nicely feminine."

So do some girls have all the luck? Not according to Lloyd Krieger, medical director of Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery. "Barton's thin and doesn't have much definition in her belly and thighs," he says, adding that she could get a more muscular look with aggressive workouts.