ITV/Shutterstock; Tommaso Boddi/Getty While Fabio became a 1990s pop-culture icon for his appearances on some 1,300 romance novels ... shoots to appear on the cover of books.

You look exactly like the guy on our books,' " Fabio told PEOPLE While Fabio became a 1990s pop-culture icon for his appearances on some 1,300 romance ... to appear on the cover of books.

While Fabio became a 1990s pop-culture icon for his appearances on some 1,300 romance novels ... to be booked for photo shoots to appear on the cover of books. The results are instantly ...

While Fabio became ... on some 1,300 romance novels, it took him a while to realize the impact of his modeling career. Fabio — born Fabio Lanzoni in Milan, Italy — had been working as a model for ...