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Jessica Hart (model)
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Jessica Hart is an Australia
n model
who appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
. She was born in Sydney
, Australia. She was discovered in Melbourne and has appeared on the cover of Australian Vogue
.
until she was noticed at the age of 15 at a local shopping centre. Another story of her rise to fame has her encouraged by an aunt to enter a modeling competition hosted by Dolly Magazine
in 2000. She won the competition with her mother, Rae, and sister, Ashley, as witnesses at Crown Casino
. She is known for a gap-tooth smile.
to pursue a career in modeling and has modelled for Guess, Triumph
and Esprit
. Hart shot her Swimsuit Issue photos in Mexico
in November 2008.
In 2008, she considered a role in an Entourage-like drama alongside Alyssa Sutherland
. In May 2009, Australian media reported that Hart had signed on to appear in advertising for Victoria's Secret
. With Heidi Klum
, Karolina Kurkova
and Adriana Lima
all pregnant in the fall of 2009, Hart appeared extensively in the season's Victoria's Secret catalogs.
She is represented by Chadwick Models.
Hart was also in a few episodes of MTV
's The City
during season one part one
, in which she is shown to be dating Tamarama band member Nicolas Potts, her long-term boyfriend.
She has been on the covers for magazines such as Vogue Australia, Elite Traveler, Cover, Karen Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Shape magazine Germany, Elle Denmark, Elle Spain, and Elle Italia. She has appeared in editorials for Vogue Australia, Elite Traveler, Cover, Karen Magazine, Fashion Quarterly, Elle Denmark, Harper's Bazaar
Australia, Harpers Bazaar Italia, Elle
Italia, Cleo Magazine Australia, Vogue Mexico, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Madison Magazine, A Magazine, City Magazine, Social Life Magazine, Melbourne Magazine, US Glamour, 'Elle Spain, Elle Italia, Elle US, Elle Argentina, Fashion Quarterly, T Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Foam Magazine, Doingbird Magazine, Love Magazine, Shape magazine Germany, and Interview Magazine.
Her Advertisements include H&M
, Seafolly, Victoria's Secret
, Gap
, Target
, Myer
, Harris Scarfe, Gestuz, Guess, John Frieda
, L'Oréal
, Moschino
, Cool Change, Pencey Standard, Portmans, Cue, Wayne by Wayne Cooper, Luca and Marc, Zimmermann, Shopbop, Newport News, Bettina Liano, Grass Clothing, Century 21, La Redoute, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Esprit, Karen Millen and Venus Swimwear,.
in 2010, Hart walked in the Spring/Summer 2011 shows for Gottex Swimwear, PPQ, Louise Gray, Emilio de la Moreno, Osman, Sass & Bide, Julien MacDonald, Matthew Williamson, Antonio Berardi, Christopher Kane, David Koma, Giles Deacon, Charlie Le Mindu and Jon
's Battery Park
during the Summer 2008. Hart also purchased her mother, Rae, a Holden
car for her birthday.
She is often compared to Brigitte Bardot
and is close friends with Gemma Ward
and Nicole Trunfio
. She co-hosted a party at the Gramercy Park Hotel
with Entourage
star Jeremy Piven
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
who appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales. According to some, the magazine is the arbiter of supermodel succession. In addition, the issue is a media nexus that in 2005 carried in advertising....
. She was born in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia. She was discovered in Melbourne and has appeared on the cover of Australian Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
.
Early life and discovery
Hart attended Sophia Mundi Steiner School in Collingwood, VictoriaCollingwood, Victoria
Collingwood is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...
until she was noticed at the age of 15 at a local shopping centre. Another story of her rise to fame has her encouraged by an aunt to enter a modeling competition hosted by Dolly Magazine
Dolly Magazine
Dolly is a monthly teen magazine started in 1970 by Fairfax Ltd. in Australia, and purchased by ACP in 1988. The current editor is Gemma Crisp, former features editor at Cleo, who was made editor of Dolly magazine in September 2007...
in 2000. She won the competition with her mother, Rae, and sister, Ashley, as witnesses at Crown Casino
Crown Casino
Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex is a large casino and entertainment precinct located on the south bank of the Yarra River, in Melbourne, Australia. Crown Casino is a unit of Crown Limited....
. She is known for a gap-tooth smile.
Career
Hart moved to New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
to pursue a career in modeling and has modelled for Guess, Triumph
Triumph International
Triumph International is an international underwear manufacturer. Founded in Heubach, Württemberg, Germany 1886 by the two families Spiesshofer & Braun. The first foreign subsidiary was established in Zurzach, Switzerland which...
and Esprit
Esprit Holdings
Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery and housewares under the Esprit label. The company is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Ratingen , Germany. In the 2007–2008 business year, Esprit Holdings Limited generated a worldwide...
. Hart shot her Swimsuit Issue photos in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
in November 2008.
In 2008, she considered a role in an Entourage-like drama alongside Alyssa Sutherland
Alyssa Sutherland
Alyssa Sutherland is an Australian-born actress and model born in Brisbane in 1982, and now based in New York City.Her modeling career began when she won the 1997 annual Bonne Belle model search of Girlfriend, a teen magazine in Australia...
. In May 2009, Australian media reported that Hart had signed on to appear in advertising for Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
. With Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...
, Karolina Kurkova
Karolína Kurková
Karolína Isela Kurková is a Czech model, best known as a former Victoria's Secret Angel, and an aspiring actress. Mario Testino said of Kurková, "The proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level, make her a model who could fit almost into any moment." Vogue editor Anna...
and Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model, best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, and as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009...
all pregnant in the fall of 2009, Hart appeared extensively in the season's Victoria's Secret catalogs.
She is represented by Chadwick Models.
Hart was also in a few episodes of MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's The City
The City (MTV series)
The City is an MTV reality television series. The first spin-off of MTV's, The Hills, it follows one of the show's former cast members, Whitney Port, as she moves to New York City to work for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. The program premiered on December 29, 2008 and concluded its first...
during season one part one
The City (season 1)
The first season of The City premiered on December 29, 2008 and concluded on March 16, 2009. It followed Whitney Port's move to New York City after leaving Los Angeles as she followed her dream job. Instead of ordering a complete 2nd season for The City MTV ordered 10 extra episodes to Season 1...
, in which she is shown to be dating Tamarama band member Nicolas Potts, her long-term boyfriend.
She has been on the covers for magazines such as Vogue Australia, Elite Traveler, Cover, Karen Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Shape magazine Germany, Elle Denmark, Elle Spain, and Elle Italia. She has appeared in editorials for Vogue Australia, Elite Traveler, Cover, Karen Magazine, Fashion Quarterly, Elle Denmark, Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...
Australia, Harpers Bazaar Italia, Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
Italia, Cleo Magazine Australia, Vogue Mexico, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Madison Magazine, A Magazine, City Magazine, Social Life Magazine, Melbourne Magazine, US Glamour, 'Elle Spain, Elle Italia, Elle US, Elle Argentina, Fashion Quarterly, T Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Foam Magazine, Doingbird Magazine, Love Magazine, Shape magazine Germany, and Interview Magazine.
Her Advertisements include H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
, Seafolly, Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
, Gap
Gap (clothing retailer)
The Gap, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta. As of September 2008,...
, Target
Target Corporation
Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...
, Myer
Myer
Myer is Australia's largest department store chain, retailing a broad range of merchandise including women's, men's and children's clothing, footwear and accessories; cosmetics and fragrance; homewares; electrical; furniture and bedding; toys; books and stationery; food and confectionery; and...
, Harris Scarfe, Gestuz, Guess, John Frieda
John Frieda
John Frieda is an English celebrity hairstylist and founder of hair salon and hair product businesses. The hair product business was acquired in 2002 by Kao Corporation, Japan. The hair products he created are widely available in the United States and many other countries.-Early life:Frieda was...
, L'Oréal
L'Oréal
The L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics...
, Moschino
Moschino
Moschino is an Italian fashion design house and manufacturer of women's, men's and children's fashion.-History:The brand was originally created in 1983 by the late Franco Moschino...
, Cool Change, Pencey Standard, Portmans, Cue, Wayne by Wayne Cooper, Luca and Marc, Zimmermann, Shopbop, Newport News, Bettina Liano, Grass Clothing, Century 21, La Redoute, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Esprit, Karen Millen and Venus Swimwear,.
in 2010, Hart walked in the Spring/Summer 2011 shows for Gottex Swimwear, PPQ, Louise Gray, Emilio de la Moreno, Osman, Sass & Bide, Julien MacDonald, Matthew Williamson, Antonio Berardi, Christopher Kane, David Koma, Giles Deacon, Charlie Le Mindu and Jon
Personal life
Hart and her boyfriend, Tamarama band member Nicolas Potts, purchased a $1-million one-bedroom property in ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
's Battery Park
Battery Park
Battery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...
during the Summer 2008. Hart also purchased her mother, Rae, a Holden
Holden
GM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U.S.-based General Motors in 1931...
car for her birthday.
She is often compared to Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...
and is close friends with Gemma Ward
Gemma Ward
Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian fashion model turned actress.-Early life:Gemma Ward was born on 3 November 1987 in Perth, Western Australia, the second of four children of Gary Ward, a doctor, and Claire, a nurse. She has an older sister, Sophie , and younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry...
and Nicole Trunfio
Nicole Trunfio
Nicole Trunfio is an Australian model from Merredin, a small country town in Western Australia.-Personal life:Trunfio is the youngest girl in a family of four children. She attended St. Mary's Primary School in Merredin...
. She co-hosted a party at the Gramercy Park Hotel
Gramercy Park Hotel
Gramercy Park Hotel is a luxury hotel located at 2 Lexington Avenue, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, adjacent to Gramercy Park. It is known for its rich history.-History:Gramercy Park Hotel was designed by Robert T...
with Entourage
Entourage (TV series)
Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
star Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American film producer and actor best known for his role as Ari Gold in the television series Entourage for which he has won three Emmy Awards as well as several other nominations for Best Supporting Actor....
.
External links
- Jessica Hart at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit IssueSports Illustrated Swimsuit IssueThe Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales. According to some, the magazine is the arbiter of supermodel succession. In addition, the issue is a media nexus that in 2005 carried in advertising....