How an Ex-Computer Scientist Programmed His Way Into the Modeling World

Ngo on the go. When Ngo Okafor recalls his photo shoot with Gisele Bundchen for V magazine in 2005, the first thing he mentions is her everyday appearance. "When she walked in, she looked like a regular girl," Okafor, 42, says of the former Victoria's Secret angel. "But when it was all done -- the makeup, the tanner, the bronzer -- you're like 'Oh, shit.'" Okafor has undergone his own "oh, shit"-worthy transformation -- from a scrawny computer-obsessed preteen ("you could see my ribs front and b...