Flash forward almost 20 years and Hollywood appears set to crown a new It Girl, Carey Mulligan.
Other celebrity skaters include West End star John Barrowman, television presenter and executive Andi Peters and former IT Girl Tamara Beckwith.
She was little known in 1990 when "Pretty Woman" hit theaters, but that film instantly turned her into a Hollywood It Girl.
As I went around it a girl in uniform tripped and literally fell at my feet.
When asked why she did it the girl said: "I felt I didn't have a choice".
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Another time, he put pockets all over a boot, like a safari jacket, and called it CNN Girl.
Bullock became Hollywood's next "It" girl in 1994, after her scene-stealing turn opposite Keanu Reeves in the action film Speed.
Take Demi Lovato, who proved her prowess as Hollywood's newest "it" girl.
Hollywood's newest "it" girl, Ellen Page, is officially in the running for an Academy Award for her leading role in Fox Searchlight's Juno.
It has her little girl scrawl on it where she was practising his signature.
The Independent Foster Care Services said it provided a warm home for the girl and said it was not their choice for her to leave.
It revealed the girl spoke to support workers on several occasions about being abused.
Sexual tension may be part of romance, but in the ardent heart of an adolescent girl it's only a part.
In 2008, it launched The Girl Effect, a dramatic, smartly produced video that has since gone viral on the Internet.
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It is understood the girl, who was found unharmed, was cared for and fed throughout last week and it is not thought she was locked inside the boat.
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But if the relationship is working out and it's just that you have a feeling for another girl or woman, it's really bad.
As I imagined it, this last girl would immediately fall in love with me as well.
She was a cheerful little girl, it was impossible not to be drawn to her smile.
She's a very interesting and unusual girl so it's that sort of quality that we're looking for.
Sure enough, she kicked the ball like a girl and it was blocked.
"It's like Girl Scouts for adults, " says Linda Brandt, 43, who started a circle in Minneapolis, where she works in public health.
It had a leather handle and numerous strands whirling in the air as she manipulated it over the prone girl on the bed.
As a proud Jewish girl, it was clear to me from adolescence on that I could only locate myself on the political Right.
It was the good girl meets bad boy, packing a wardrobe of tough leather jackets, pleated skirts and several fedoras for the adventure.
The Mirror event went a step further, declaring "It's a girl!"
Earlier this year the European Commission launched a video taster of an initiative to engage more girls in science called Science: It's a Girl Thing.
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