Sharon Yvonne Stone

Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the second of four children of Dorothy (née Lawson), an accountant, and Joseph William Stone, II, a tool and die manufacturer and factory worker. Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and entered the second grade when she was five years old.
She graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania in 1975. While attending Edinboro University, Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. One of the pageant judges told her to quit school and move to New York City to become a fashion model. In 1977, Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey. Within four days of her arrival in New Jersey, she was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York.