You made it.' That was to me, it was the best reward." Related: The Search for Ultimate '90s Hunk Fabio Fabio speaking to the PEOPLE in the '90s podcast in 2021 On the set of his PEOPLE cover ...

I can handle it. It's no big deal." Related: The Search for Ultimate '90s Hunk Fabio "They want to be that woman on the cover," Fabio added of the fans who would attend the conventions.

Fabio became a pop culture icon in the early '90s thanks in part to his status as the go-to romance novel cover star. Born Fabio Lanzoni in Milan, Italy, the muscular blonde model has maintained ...

Sam noted that the same thing happened to Fabio, the mononymous model and actor most notable for appearing on innumerable romance novel covers throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Full name Fabio ...

Fabio is still the “King of Romance” – the hard-bodied cover boy of soft-core romance novels back in the swinging ’80s and ’90s. But on the cusp of turning 65, he is breaking his ...

Some decades later, a similar obsession over a male physique developed with Fabio Lanzoni. In the 1990s, Fabio seemed to exist purely as an aesthetic ideal, gracing the covers of romance novels ...

Fabio Lanzoni became a pop culture sensation in the early ’90s, mainly due to his status as the quintessential romance novel ...

Fabio — born Fabio Lanzoni in Milan ... In an interview on PEOPLE's PEOPLE in the '90s podcast in 2021, he explained how he had been posing for the romance novel photo shoots for about a ...

Fabio remembers. Fabio had posed for a few photographs ... It's one of my best memories of that time in my life." No one owned the '90s quite like the Italian-born model turned romance novel ...

Fabio — born Fabio Lanzoni in Milan, Italy — had been working as a model for brands like Versace and The Gap when book ... In an interview on PEOPLE's PEOPLE in the '90s podcast in ...