Before starting an acting career Krista was a successful international fashion model. She started her modeling career in New York at the age of 17. After working in New York doing runway and print work for a short time, Krista was discovered while she was walking on Manhattans lower east side by a Brazilian photographer who flew her to Brazil to shoot her for a 7 page spread in Brazilian Vogue. Krista's Modeling career also took her to exotic locations such as Israel, Porto Santo (an Island off the coast of Spain), Hawaii and England.