As Angie, a struggling mother who becomes a sexual pawn in a game called Slayers, Valletta spends a good chunk of the movie dressed as a gamer's Japanimation fetish, complete with a bright orange club-kid wig. In September, she and Gerard Butler starred as real-world video-game avatars in the futuristic sci-fi blitz Gamer. This year, she's picking up speed with a pair of potential blockbusters. "If success had come too soon, maybe I wouldn't have been ready for it." "I feel like I'm right where I'm supposed to be," she says. If, compared with her meteoric modeling success, her acting career "has been slow to rise," that's okay with Valletta. Meanwhile, respectable turns in films such as Hitch, Premonition, and Raising Helen, have earned Valletta a spot alongside such models turned actors as Cameron Diaz, Rebecca Romijn, and Andie MacDowell. label Monrow (her first foray into design), Valletta's fashion career-which she officially shifted to the back burner six years ago-is still cooking. And with recent campaigns for Iceberg and DSquared2, and a capsule clothing line launched this fall with the L.A. "There's something about the word model," says Amber Valletta, one of the most successful individuals ever to hold the title, "that immediately discredits you." Valletta, 35, wants to be clear: She's not complaining about being one of the world's most photographed women.
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