Rachel Hunter

About

Rachel Hunter (born 8 September 1969) is a New Zealand model, actress, and the host of Imagination Television’s Rachel Hunter’s Tour of Beauty. 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).

Hunter was born in Glenfield, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and educated at Glenfield College. 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.

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…