She has appeared in several independent films, including 1999's A Walk in the Park and 2000's Two Shades of Blue, an erotic thriller with Marlee Matlin. Hunter guest starred in a 1997 episode of The Drew Carey Show as herself. Hunter first appeared on television in 1985 in an advertisement for the New Zealand ice cream brand Tip Top, promoting their "Trumpet" ice-cream. Hunter is signed to Ford Models in New York, Select Model Management in London, and Chadwick Models in Sydney. Hunter posed nude for a cover-featured Playboy pictorial published in April 2004. Hunter also appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia, Australian Vogue, American and international editions of Elle and Dutch Harper's Bazaar. She subsequently appeared on magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and on the 1994 "Dream Team" cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue with other Supermodels Elle MacPherson and Kathy Ireland, and again graced its cover, this time solo, 12 years later in 2006. Hunter rose to global prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 1989. She was quickly signed up to Ford Models and immediately embarked on a successful career, landing a Cover Girl cosmetics contract and becoming the spokesperson for the company for quite a few years. She became the face of Tip Top Ice-Cream in New Zealand and was the "Trumpet Girl". Hunter began her career at age 16, modelling in France, Australia and New Zealand, appearing in Australian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Australian Cosmopolitan and for various campaigns throughout New Zealand and Australia. Hunter's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover from February 2006 Hunter's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover from February 1994 As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer, but at 13 became ill with toxoplasmosis, which curtailed her dancing ambitions.
Her parents divorced when she was still a child.
Hunter was born in Glenfield, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and educated at Glenfield College. She has been on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice in 1994 (alongside Kathy Ireland and Elle Macpherson) and in 2006 (alongside six other models). She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar. Rachel Hunter (born 8 September 1969) is a New Zealand model, actress and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty.
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