Hailing from Auckland’s North shore, Rachel Hunter became a household name in New Zealand due to her work as a teenage model.
After posing in Sports Illustrated in 1989 her international modelling career took off. She married and later divorced rock star Rod Stewart and has also had relationships with musician Kip Winger and National Hockey League player Jarret Stoll. In 2004 she posed in a nude spread for Playboy magazine.