Kasey Langston
Kasey Langston knows all about the dangers of racing. “Everyone always asks if I’m not scared,” says the all-American racing machine. “I’m more nervous driving on I-95.” It’s hard to picture the former top model speeding down the track in her red Ferrari. She is poised and elegant, wearing her preppy uniform of slacks and crisp white shirt while sitting in her waterfront home on Venetian Island in Miami. On the blackboard hanging in her pristine, white kitchen, the busy life of her three kids is accounted for to the minute. “I’m always in the car, driving everyone,” Kasey says with a grin.
It was probably that smile that landed Kasey on the covers of magazines like Elle, Grazia and Harper’s Bazaar and in the pages of endless catalogs back when she was known by her maiden name of Kasey Cain. “I love my job,” Kasey admits. “I was never one to whine about it. I was glad to work and make the money I did.” Kasey was, along with other top girls from Elite Model Management, part of the wave that defined the industry as we know it today. It wasn’t hard for her to give up college and a retail gig back in California for a first class ticket around the world. When it came to settling down, Kasey chose Miami, the catalog shooting capital of fashiondom, where she continued to build an impressive financial egg nest, all thanks to her enviable genes.
Ray Langston, Kasey’s husband and a car aficionado, turned her onto car racing. “What I love about it is that racing requires absolute concentration,” Kasey explains. “In that moment, nothing really matters.” She has had a few tension filled moments behind the wheel. “Last time a computer glitch shut down the engine, and I went into a tailspin at full speed. I won’t lie, it was scary.” Yet nothing can detract her from the sense of liberty that racing her little red Ferrari 360 Grand AM GT on Palm Beach International Raceway brings her. Partly because Kasey is wining major brownie points with her family and her agents alike. She still finds time for the camera but what unveils out onto the pages is a lot different than the images she produced back in the days of sharing apartments with other models and traveling on a Eurorail Pass. “The confidence I learned behind the wheel on the track has made me a better model, however strange that may seem,” Kasey confides. “I’m just more aware of everything around me.” Her career and passion for speed hasn’t precluded her from playing the role she cherishes the most. “I’m a mom before everything else. I even bake cookies. Only I do it super fast.”
