Laetitia Casta in full bloom at Cannes 1999

The French model Laetitia Casta, in full youthful bloom, poses for photographers at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. Casta turned 21 that year; she was born in 1978.

1999 was also the year that Latitia Casta was chosen by a vote of French mayors to pose for new busts of Marianne, the symbol of revolutionary France whose statue appears in French town halls. Laetitia Casta is 5'6" tall (about 168 cm), according to CelebHeights.com.