Her father is an
American of Italian and Irish descent; the
ethnicity of her estranged mother has been ambiguous with Minnillo's
reference to her as being a Filipina from the province of
Leyte [1] [2] and then recently referring to her mother as Polynesian
[3] during an interview with
Maxim Magazine for her cover
story in the October 2006 issue.
[edit] Career
In
May 2006,
Maxim Magazine listed Minnillo as #15 in their
Hot 100 issue.
she was listed as #62 in the 2005 issue and was the
Maxim cover girl for both October 2005 and October 2006 issues.