They may be young, gorgeous and rich - but runway walkers are no strangers to hard knocks.

Reeva Steenkamp's tragic Valentine's Day death - believed to have been perpetrated by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius - is a stark reminder of the untimely deaths other models have faced.

In light of Reeva's death, FoxNews.com takes a look at five other models whose lives were cut too short.

Anna Nicole Smith, who modeled for Guess and Lane Bryant, died in 2009 at 39 of a drug overdose. Seventies stunner Dorothy Stratten was shot to death by her angry husband in 1981 — when she was only 20 years old.