A farm-raised native of Bega, a small town of the South Coast region, New South Wales, Australia, Isabel Angus started to pursue a modeling career in her home region, though she lost beauty pageants because of judgments based on her skin color and height. Confident in her vision for herself, Angus signed with Elite and later IMG to eventually become one of the most sought after models in the world, doing runway work for designers like Tom Ford and Louis Vuitton. She landed a spokeswoman contract for Estée Lauder and appeared in a range of international publications.