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Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson's photoGETTY

Real Name:
Eleanor Nancy Gow
Nationality:
Australian
Birthday:
March 29, 1964
Born in:
Cronulla, New South Wales
Lives now:
Los Angeles, CA
Agencies:
New York Model Management, Storm
Known for:
My body, my smile
Status:
Retired (mostly), sexy girl, supermodel
Dated:
Ray Fearon, John Hitchcox, David Evans, Arpad Busson, Sean Penn, Norm MacDonald
Married:
Gilles Bensimon
Children:
Arpad Flynn Alexander Busson, Aurelius Cy Andrea Busson
Friends with:
Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Kathy Ireland, Naomi Campbell
Feuding with:
Heidi Klum (since 1986 Macpherson has held the title of “The Body,” which Heidi claimed for herself in a 2006 Victoria’s Secret commercial)
Model turned…
Actress (If Lucy Fell, 1996), restaurateur (Fashion Café, 1995), entrepreneur (Elle Macpherson Intimates)
Interests:
Water sports, collecting art

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Off the Runway

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Career

Sports Illustrated, 1988

Mar 29, 1964
Born in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
1982
Discovered while on vacation in Aspen, Colorado
1982
Signs with Click modeling agency
1982
Appears in a commercial for Tab Cola Video »
Sep 1984
Appears on cover of Cosmopolitan
1985
Marries Gilles Bensimon, a French photographer and Creative Director of Elle
1986
Time magazine nicknames her “The Body” in a feature titled “The Big Elle”
1986
Offered a position as an unofficial ambassador at the Australian tourist commission
Feb 1986
Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
May 1986
Appears on covers of both the American and French editions of Elle
Feb 1987
Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
Feb 1988
Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
1989
Divorces Gilles Bensimon
Jan 1991
Has a walk-on role in the Woody Allen film Alice
1993
Painted all gold for her calendar Video »
1993
Appears in print ad for Finesse shampoo
Feb 1994
Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated with Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter
May 1994
Starts her own line of exercise videos, Your Personal Best with Elle Macpherson
May 1994
Appears nude in Playboy magazine
Jul 1994
Walks for Valentino and John Galliano haute couture in Paris
Nov 1994
Appears in the film Sirens, alongside Hugh Grant and Portia de Rossi; has several nude scenes
1995
Co-launches the Fashion Café
May 8, 1995
Named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People
Mar 1996
Acts as a beautiful, mysterious woman in the film If Lucy Fell
Apr 1996
Plays the socialite Blanche Ingram in a movie adaptation of Jane Eyre
Jul 1996
Appears on cover of French Cosmopolitan
Nov 1996
Plays Jeff Bridges’s ex-lover in The Mirror Has Two Faces, which stars Barbara Streisand
Jun 1997
Plays Batman’s girlfriend, Julie, in the film Batman & Robin, alongside Uma Thurman and George Clooney
Jul 1997
William Holt and Michael Mischler break into her mansion and steal and estimated $100,000 in jewelry and fifteen nude photographs, with which they attempt to blackmail her, demanding $60,000
Feb 1998
Gives birth to son, Arpad Flynn Alexander Busson
Nov 1999
Appears in five episodes of Friends as Joey’s roommate and girlfriend, Janine Lecroix
Sep 2000
Featured in Vogue while pregnant, photographed by Annie Leibowitz
2001
Named highest-paid supermodel by the Guinness Book of World Records
May 2001
Hosts the Miss Universe beauty pageant with Naomi Campbell
Oct 2001
Launches own line of lingerie, Elle Macpherson Intimates
2003
Appears on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar
Feb 2003
Gives birth to Aurelius Cy Andrea Busson
Oct 2003
Checks into Arizona rehab center Meadows Institute on account of exhaustion and postnatal depression
Oct 2004
Appears on cover of British Vogue
Mar 2005
Oprah lauds Elle Macpherson Intimates nursing bra and gifts it to 640 military wives at a group baby-shower at Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Jun 2005
Wins Glamour magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year award for Elle Macpherson Intimates, which has become Australia’s number-one line of lingerie
Jul 2005
Separates from wealthy Swiss-French financier Arpad Busson
2006
Wins Spanish Elle’s Best Supermodel award
Feb 2006
Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
Jun 2007
Travels to Ghana to support (Red) campaign and interview HIV patients Video »
Mar 2008
Guest stars on a episode of America's Next Top Model promoting her lingerie line
Mar 2008
Signs contract with Revlon as a global representative Story »
Jul 18, 2008
Jeopardy has the question "Elle MacPherson and Heidi Klum feuded over the use of this nickname." Video »

Quoted

“I believe every woman should have seven sets of beautiful lingerie. That's the absolute minimum. I have about 50, but if you have seven then you don't have to worry if it takes you a couple of days to wash a set.”

Easy Living Magazine

“I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me.”

Easy Living Magazine

“I travel round the world, I speak a few languages, but I'm basically just an Aussie surfer chick.”

Easy Living Magazine

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