Rachel Hunter

For other people named Rachel Hunter, see Rachel Hunter (disambiguation).

Rachel Hunter
Hunter in 2008
Born	(1969-09-08) 8 September 1969 (age 55) Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand
Occupations	Model actress
Years active	1986–Present
Spouse	Rod Stewart ​ ​ (m. 1990; div. 2006)​
Children	2
Modeling information
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Blue
Website	rachelhunter.com

Rachel Hunter (born 8 September 1969)^[1] is a New Zealand model, actress, and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty.^[2] 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).^[3][4]

Early life

Hunter was born in Glenfield, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand,^[5] and educated at Glenfield College.^[6] 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.^[5]

Career

External images
Hunter's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover from February 1994
Hunter's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover from February 2006

Modelling

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 several years.^[7] Hunter rose to global prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 1989.^[8] 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.^[9][10]

Hunter is signed to Ford Models in New York, Select Model Management in London, and Chadwick Models in Sydney.^[7]

Acting

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.^[11] 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.^[12] She appeared on a 2005 celebrity episode of Lingo, where she and her partner Trista Rehn split $30,000 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),^[13] the science fiction TV movies Piranhaconda^[14] (2011) and Swamp Volcano, aka Miami Magma (2012).^[15]

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.^[16] 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

In the late 1980s, Hunter was in a relationship with rock musician Kip Winger.^[17]

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.^[18] Together they have two children: Renée (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.^[19]

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.^[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Just a Little Harmless Sex	Marilyn
1999	Two Shades of Blue	Susan Price
1999	Winding Roads	Kelly Simons
1999	A Walk in the Park	Sally's sister
2000	Tripfall	Gina Williams
2001	MacArthur Park	Karen
2001	Pendulum	Amanda Reeve
2001	Boys Klub	The Goddess
2001	Rock Star	A.C.'s Wife
2002	Redemption of the Ghost	Gloria
2003	Haunted Lighthouse	Rich Widow Feeney	Short film
2004	El padrino	Newscaster
2005	You and Your Stupid Mate	Karen
2005	Freezerburn	Holly Hardin
2006	Final Move	Iris Quarrie
2006	I.R.A.: King of Nothing	British Intelligence Agent
2006	The Benchwarmers	Hot Mother
2006	Ozzie	Beth Morton
2007	Dead Write	Jade	also Associate Producer
2007	Mexican American	Jacqueline	Direct-to-Video
2007	7-10 Split	Chiropracter
2007	La cucina	Jude
2009	Jordon Saffron: Taste This!	Nikki
2010	The Brazen Bull	Detective Vinyec
2010	Black Widow	Dr. Laura	2011 Miami magma
2011	A Matter of Justice	Nicole Ibiza
2013	The Banksters, Madoff with America	Mimi Mymen
2014	Soul Mates	Carly

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Ford Super Model of the World	Herself (host)	Television Special
1993	Bobby's World	Ms. Miller (voice role)	Episode: "Bobby Ties the Knot"
1995	Mad About You	Herself	television debut Episode: "Just My Dog"
1997	The Drew Carey Show	Herself	Episode: "Cap-Beer-Cino"
1999	Suddenly Susan	Meegan Garrity	Episode: "Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut"
2000	Best Actress	Fiona Covington	Television Movie
2003	MTV Cribs	Herself	Episode: "Rachel Hunter/Shannon Elizabeth/Sam Madison"
2003	Are You Hot?	Herself (co-host)
2004	The Vicar of Dibley	Herself	Episode: "Merry Christmas"
2005	Larva	Hayley Anderson	Television Movie
2005	Dancing with the Stars	Herself (contestant)	Reality series; 5 episodes
2006	Style Me with Rachel Hunter	Herself (judge)	Reality series; 8 episodes
2006	Make Me a Supermodel	Herself	Reality series; 6 episodes
2006	Celebrity Paranormal Project	Herself	Reality series; 8 episodes
2008	The Perfect Assistant	Judith Manion	Television Movie
2008	Confessions of a Go-Go Girl	Donna Mercer	Television Movie
2008–2010	She's Got the Look	Herself (Guest judge)	14 episodes
2010	Gravity	Shawna Rollins	series regular; 10 episodes
2010	10 Things I Hate About You	Herself	Episode: "Too Much Information"
2011	Miami Magma	Antoinette Vitrini	Television Movie
2012	Piranhaconda	Talia	Television Movie
2012	New Zealand's Got Talent	Herself	Reality series
2012	RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars	Herself (Guest Judge)	Episode: "It Takes Two"
2015	Her Infidelity	Lily Helms	Television Movie
2016	FabLife	Herself (Co-Hostess)	Episode: "Beauty Secrets Spectacular with Supermodel Rachel Hunter"
2016	Hollywood Medium	Herself	Episode: "Corey Feldman/Rachel Hunter/Evelyn Lozada"
2017	The Women Behind The Women: Behind Steel Dragon	Wife	Television Movie
2023	RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under	Herself (Guest Judge)	Episode: "BMX Bitches"

Music videos

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	"Broken Arrow" by Rod Stewart	Woman	Directed by Peter Nydrie
2003	"Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne	Stacy's Mom	Directed by Chris Applebaum
2006	"Mojo" by Peeping Tom	Woman	Created by Matt McDermitt

Dancing with the Stars

Week #	Dance / Song	Judge's scores			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Waltz / "Three Times a Lady"	7	6	7	No elimination
2	Rumba / "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"	8	8	8	Bottom two
3	Tango / "Toxic"	8	9	9	Safe
4	Samba / "Tequila"	7	9	9	Eliminated
	Group Viennese Waltz / "I Got You Babe"	No scores given

References

1. "RACHEL HUNTER on Twitter". Twitter.
2. "Rachel's Tour of Beauty". Rachel's Tour of Beauty. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
3. "SI Swimsuit Covers Through the Years". SI.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
4. "SI Swimsuit Covers Through the Years". SI.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
5. Thomas, David. "Rachel reveals (almost) all". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
6. Fox, Michael (9 September 2009). "Rachel Hunter's rise to the top". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
7. "Rachel Hunter". FashionModelDirectory.com. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
8. "Rachel Hunter". New York Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
9. "Hunter among Playboy's best bunnies (+pics)". 31 January 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
10. "Rachel Hunter". Playboy.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
11. "Two Shades of Blue (1999)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
12. "Rachel Hunter hits the dance floor on US version of hit show". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
13. "The Perfect Assistant (2008)". IMDB.com. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
14. "Piranhaconda (2011)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
15. "Miami Magma (2011)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
16. "UB40 front man to judge New Zealand's Got Talent". 29 June 2012. New Zealand Herald. 29 June 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
17. "Winger: Gets Real". Sleaze Roxx. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
18. "Chronicle column". The New York Times. 18 December 1990.(subscription required)
19. "Entertainment | Rod Stewart divorce is finalised". BBC News. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
20. Kari Friedlander (25 June 2009). "Rachel Hunter Calls off Wedding". TV Guide Online. Retrieved 25 June 2009.

External links

• Rachel Hunter at IMDb
• Rachel Hunter at Fashion Model Directory