Who is Rosie Huntington-Whiteley? Pregnant fiancée of Jason Statham, model and M&S ambassador
Brit beauty is expecting her first child with her action star beau
ROSIE Huntington-Whiteley made headlines recently when she announced she was pregnant, Beyoncé style, with a shot of her baby bump on Instagram.
The Brit model, who hails from Devon, is expecting her first child with action star Jason Statham.
Here's what else we know about Rosie.
Coming up Rosie
Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley was born on April 18, 1987, in Plymouth, Devon.
She grew up on a farm near Tavistock with mum Fiona, a fitness instructor, dad Charles, a chartered surveyor, and her two younger siblings, Florence and Toby.
Rosie's great-grandfather on her dad's side came from an aristocratic family, and his wife was from Jewish family who emigrated to England from Poland in the 1870s.
It’s always funny when people say ‘What do you want to do?’ and I say, ‘I don’t know. I’m just doing things!’ I honestly don’t know where I’ll be in 10 years’ time
Rosie attended Tavistock College, where she says she was called "Tit-lips" because she had big lips and no chest; she was also teased for her double-barrelled name ("People thought I was super P-O-S-H, which is actually not the case").
However, she was still voted Girl Most Likely to Become a Supermodel.
Rising star
When Rosie was 15 she did work experience at a modelling agency in London, and a year later the agency signed her.
Her first gig was a Levi's commercial. She spent her entire pay cheque on a Ford Ka, even though she couldn't drive, because she thought it would be the only time she would ever get paid for modelling.
It wasn't: Rosie went on to model for such high-profile labels as Ralph Lauren, DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger and Abercrombie & Fitch.
She shot for Teen Vogue in 2004, and made her catwalk debut for Burberry later that year.
She moved to New York City when she was 18, and in 2006 she was signed to Victoria's Secret, officially becoming one of the brand's iconic Angels in 2010.
In 2011 she appeared solo for the first time on the cover of Vogue UK.
She's also appeared on countless other magazine covers and in a long list of campaigns, including for Marks & Spencer (where she bought her first bra).
Fashion photographer Rankin devoted an entire book to the beauty, called Ten Times Rosie.
I’ll meet a 16-year-old girl from time to time and as I get older, it blows my mind how young I was when I first started
Silver screen
Rosie branched into acting for the first time in 2010 when she replaced Megan Fox as the female lead in Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon.
She'd previously worked with the film's director, Michael Bay, on a Victoria's Secret advert.
Reviews were largely critical of her performance, though one critic likened her to Cameron Diaz.
Her second film role was in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Her character, one of five wives of a warlord, was pregnant, so she wore a prosthetic belly throughout the film.
Love life
Rosie has been in a relationship with actor Jason Statham since 2010.
In a 2016 interview with Harper's Bazaar Australia Rosie said: "I have an amazing relationship with my partner. He's by far the greatest influence in my life."
Jason proposed to Rosie in January 2016 with a five-carat diamond ring from Neil Lane, and in February 2017 she announced on Instagram that they were expecting their first child.
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