A FRENCH MODEL WHO DREAMED OF BECOMING THE NEXT GISELE BUNDCHEN WAS AMONG THE FIRST VICTIMS KILLED IN THE IN NAIROBI WESTGATE MALL ATTACK, IT HAS BEEN REPORTED.

London- based 27-year-old Anne Dechauffour and her mother 54 years old Corrine were the two French victims of the Nairobi Siege gunmen. In addition Al-Qaida allied terrorists in Kenya’s largest shopping complex gunned down seventy-two people.

Before her death, Dechauffour had written and acted in a short film about hostage crises before her death, she was shot just after she had parked her family cat at the mall.

Ann studied acting at Paris’s prestigious cours florent and at London’s city academy. She then moved back to London to pursue a career in modeling.

In a recent interview, Dechauffour said that she had hoped that one-day to be a top model like Gisele Bundchen.

Director of the Course Florent Francois Hoffman spoke to Le Parisien that “She had potential, She had a childlike voice and a fragility that felt like an extension of childhood. That was her uniqueness”.

According to her childhood friend, Kenya was Dechauffour’s second home. Anne would often visit the country with her mother.

While on the trips she would occasionally work at the Rock Leopard Lodge, a luxury hotel in the heart of Meru National Park, which is 200 miles northeast of Nairobi, which was run by her father.

Christopher Lebel another friend has spoken about his friend’s death quoted saying, “I have lost a friend. With her death all my school memories come flooding back”.

Paris’s public prosecutor has opened a preprimarily murder inquiry into the deaths of the model and her mother.