Rachel Hunter
Model — born 1969
Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand supermodel and actress.
Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand model and TV personality whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining 1990s international high-fashion-modeling public profile — particularly her 1989 first international Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover (the February 1989 cover) and her 1990–2006 marriage to English rock musician Rod Stewart. She was born Rachel Carol Hunter on September 9, 1969, in Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand, into a New Zealand working-class family. Her father Jeff Hunter was an Auckland steel-foundry worker and her mother Janeen Hunter was a homemaker.
Her 1985 first amateur-modeling-competition victory at age 16 — at the New Zealand Modeling Association's annual Auckland competition — launched her late-1980s international high-fashion-modeling public profile. Her 1986 New York City modeling-agency signing under the Ford Models management produced her early-1990s international high-fashion-modeling commercial breakthrough.
Her February 1989 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover (at age 19, posing on the Australian Whitsunday Island beach) launched her 1990s international high-fashion-modeling public profile. The 1989 Sports Illustrated cover became one of the most-recognized 1980s and 1990s American magazine covers.
Her December 1990 marriage to English rock musician Rod Stewart — who was 24 years her senior — shaped her early-1990s international public profile. The 1990–2006 marriage produced two children (a daughter and a son), and the couple ultimately divorced in November 2006 after a decade of separation. Her later 2000s and 2010s career has produced multiple American TV-personality appearances — particularly her 2006 lead role on the New Zealand-produced TV-travel-show Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has been with New Zealand ice-hockey defenseman Jarret Stoll (her second husband, married 2018).
Her name Rachel derives from the Hebrew Rachel meaning "ewe" — the name of the Old Testament wife of Jacob. Rachel was the second-most-popular American girls' name through the 1990s.
About the name Rachel
Gender: Female · Origin: German
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