New Zealand model and actress
Rachel Hunter
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Rachel_Hunter_LF.JPG/220px-Rachel_Hunter_LF.JPG) Hunter in 2008
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Born
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1969-09-08
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8 September 1969
(age 54)
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Occupations
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Years active
| 1986?Present
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Spouse
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(
m.
1990;
div.
2006)
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Children
| 2
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Modeling information
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Height
| 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
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Hair color
| Blonde
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Eye color
| Blue
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Website
| rachelhunter
.com
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Rachel Hunter
(born 8 September 1969)
is a New Zealand model,
[2]
actress, and host of
Imagination Television's
Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty
.
[3]
She has appeared on several magazine covers, including
Vogue
,
Elle
,
Rolling Stone
,
Sports Illustrated
,
Playboy
,
Cosmopolitan
, and
Harper's Bazaar
. She has been on the cover of the
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
twice: in 1994 (alongside
Kathy Ireland
and
Elle Macpherson
) and in 2006 (alongside six other models).
[4]
[5]
Early life
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edit
]
Hunter was born in
Glenfield
, a suburb of
Auckland
, New Zealand,
[6]
and educated at
Glenfield College
.
[7]
Her parents divorced when she was still a child. As a child she wanted to be a
ballet
dancer, but at 13 became ill with
toxoplasmosis
, which curtailed her dancing ambitions.
[6]
Career
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Modelling
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Hunter began her career at age 16, modelling in France, Australia and New Zealand, appearing in Australian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Australian Cosmopolitan and for various campaigns throughout New Zealand and Australia. She became the face of
Tip Top Ice-Cream
in New Zealand and was the "Trumpet Girl". She was quickly signed up to
Ford Models
and immediately embarked on a successful career, landing a
Cover Girl
cosmetics contract and becoming the spokesperson for the company for quite a few years.
[8]
Hunter rose to global prominence after posing as a
Sports Illustrated
swimsuit model in 1989.
[9]
She subsequently appeared on magazine covers, including
Cosmopolitan
and on the 1994 "Dream Team" cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue with other Supermodels
Elle MacPherson
and
Kathy Ireland
, and again graced its cover, this time solo, 12 years later in 2006. Hunter also appeared on the cover of
Vogue Italia
, Australian
Vogue
, American and international editions of
Elle
and Dutch
Harper's Bazaar
.
Hunter posed
nude
for a cover-featured
Playboy
pictorial published in April 2004.
[10]
[11]
Hunter is signed to Ford Models in New York,
Select Model Management
in London, and Chadwick Models in Sydney.
[8]
Acting
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Hunter first appeared on television in 1985 in an advertisement for the New Zealand ice cream brand Tip Top, promoting their "Trumpet" ice-cream.
Hunter guest starred in a 1997 episode of
The Drew Carey Show
as herself. She has appeared in several independent films, including 1999's
A Walk in the Park
and 2000's
Two Shades of Blue
, an
erotic thriller
with
Marlee Matlin
.
[12]
She stars as a lesbian cook doling out relationship advice in the award-winning
indie film
La Cucina
. She had a brief appearance as a sexy mother in
Dennis Dugan
's
The Benchwarmers
(2006) and also played a sultry, bikini-clad mother in the music video for
Fountains of Wayne
's 2003 song "
Stacy's Mom
."
Hunter was one of six celebrities in the inaugural cast of the American dance
competition
series
Dancing with the Stars
in 2005.
[13]
She appeared on a 2005 celebrity episode of
Lingo
, where she and her partner
Trista Rehn
split $US30,000 for charity. Hunter is an ambassador to The
Born Free Foundation
, and established the Rachel Hunter Lowland Gorilla Fund. Hunter also appeared as herself in the 2004 Christmas Special of
The Vicar of Dibley
. She also starred in
Confessions of a Go-Go Girl
(2008),
The Perfect Assistant
(2008),
[14]
the science fiction TV movies
Piranhaconda
[15]
(2011) and
Swamp Volcano
, aka
Miami Magma
(2012).
[16]
Hunter (left), alongside the governor-general,
Dame Patsy Reddy
, at the Suffrage 125 launch at
Government House, Wellington
, on 7 March 2018
She appeared as a judge on
New Zealand's Got Talent
from 2012 to 2013.
[17]
In 2015, Hunter fronted her own television series titled
"Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty"
for
TV One
where she travelled the world to discover what beauty meant in various countries.
Personal life
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In the late 1980s, Hunter lived with rock musician
Kip Winger
. Winger stated after their relationship ended that he was left heartbroken when Hunter left him for Rod Stewart.
[18]
At the age of 21, Hunter met rock star
Rod Stewart
, 24 years her senior, in a Los Angeles nightclub. They married three months later at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California, on 15 December 1990.
[19]
Together they have two children: Renee (b. 1992) and Liam (b. 1994). They separated in January 1999 after eight years of marriage, and their divorce was finalised on 2 November 2006.
[20]
She had a year-long relationship with Canadian
NHL
ice hockey player
Sean Avery
in 2004,
[
citation needed
]
and in 2006 began a three-year relationship with
Jarret Stoll
, 13 years her junior, also a Canadian NHL player who played for, and won the Stanley Cup with, the Los Angeles Kings. Her son Liam was a junior player being mentored by him while playing for the LA Kings Juniors when they first met. Stoll proposed to Hunter in 2008 whilst he accompanied her on a trip home to her native New Zealand later that year and they were due to marry on 14 August 2009, but the wedding was called off by Stoll seven weeks prior to their wedding day.
[21]
Filmography
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Film
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Television
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Music videos
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Dancing with the Stars
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References
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External links
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2020s
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- Kate Bock
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Jasmine Sanders
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Olivia Culpo
- Megan Thee Stallion
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Naomi Osaka
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Leyna Bloom
- Kim Kardashian
,
Ciara
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Maye Musk
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Yumi Nu
- Kim Petras
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Martha Stewart
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Megan Fox
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Brooks Nader
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Covergirl
in bold, *appeared in
bodypainting
by
Joanne Gair
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2009
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40th Anniversary (2004)
Hall of Fame
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All-Star Reunion
Cover (2006)
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