Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter (born 8 September 1969)[1] 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]
For other people named Rachel Hunter, see Rachel Hunter (disambiguation).
Rachel Hunter
- Model
- actress
1986–Present
2
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Blonde
Blue
Early life[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]
Personal life[edit]
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: 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.[20]
She had a year-long relationship with Canadian NHL ice hockey player Sean Avery in 2004, 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]