Bar Refaeli

Bar Refaeli (Hebrew בר רפאלי; born June 4, 1985 in Hod haScharon, Israel) is an Israeli model.

Life

Refaeli was born into a secular Jewish family. Her mother, Tzipi Levine, has been a successful model. Her grandparents are from Lithuania, Italy and Poland.

Refaeli grew up on the horse ranch of her parents in Hod haScharon. At the age of eight months, she stood first for advertising and photography are available. Since she had to wear braces as a twelve- year-old, rested their model work for three years.

Refaeli spent five years in a relationship with the U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

Career

After her 15th birthday she posed for fashion magazines and appeared in a televised advertisement. In the years 2000 and 2001 she won twice in a row, a beauty contest, which she has named the " Model of the Year ". From then on, her career went steeply up and she worked in the years 2002 and 2003 as the front model for the line of fashion labels. Even outside of Israel was consolidated her reputation and she graced the cover of French Elle four times within two months and posed for Victoria 's Secret catalog. Added to this was the cover of the Italian edition of GQ magazine. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue she photographed for each issue from 2007 to 2010 and 2012, while in 2009 she graced the cover. In addition, she worked in early 2008 as a star model for Otto Versand. The British men's magazine Arena chose Bar Refaeli for 'Body of the Year 2008 ". In 2012 she chose the American men's magazine Maxim for the "most beautiful woman in the world ".

2012 Refaeli sat on the jury of the Sat.1 model casting show one million U.S. dollars Shooting Star.

Controversies

In autumn 2007 she attracted with an interview with the daily newspaper Jedi'ot Aharonot stir. In the interview, which was published under the headline " Bar Refaeli versus the State of Israel," Refaeli was to die with the statement " Why is it good for our country? Is not it better to live in New York? "Quotes. So they do not regret not having done their military service. Refaeli sued the newspaper because they had been misrepresented in the interview. Shortly before serve their military service, she married, but was shortly thereafter divorced. Your refusal to perform in Israel compulsory military service for women, led to the calling of an Israeli general to boycott of their products advertised.

2013 criticized the Israeli military a PR campaign of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which should improve the image of Israel and was involved in the Bar Refaeli.

The current as a right-wing Israeli politicians Baruch Marzel she asked in a letter to part with Leonardo DiCaprio and prefer to marry a " nice Jewish boy ".