Bar Refaeli Life Story

Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי; born June 4, 1985) is a model and occasional actress Israel. He was the cover model of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition 2009 and was selected # 1 on the list of Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2012.

Early life

Bar Refaeli was born into a Jewish Israeli family in Hod Hasharon, Israel. Her parents, Tzipi and Rafael, own a horse farm. His mother is a successful model of Israel in 1970 under her maiden name, Tzipi Levine. Refaeli has three brothers. She began her modeling career at the age of eight months, appearing in commercials. Refaeli had to wear braces at the beginning of the year, interrupted her modeling until age 15, when she returned to modeling with Irene Marie Model representation.

Refaeli started her modeling career before the age of 8 months for a baby commercial. At age 15, she appeared in campaigns for fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, also starring in ads for the Galaxy. Refaeli won the title "Model of The Year" in Israel beauty pageant in 2000.

Refaeli has appeared in ELLE (France), Maxim, and GQ (Italy). He began his career in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2007, Israel became the first models appeared in the magazine, posing with rock band Aerosmith.In 2009, is covermodel Refaeli for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. A photo from a photo shoot, featuring bikini-clad Refaeli, painted on the side of a Boeing 737 in promotional agreement with Southwest Airlines, which led to criticism from the Southwest of the passengers to use their images considered inappropriate sexual and "offensive" family. In October the same year, Refaeli was again involved in controversy, when Tel Aviv's Haredi groups criticize billboard campaign in which she appeared half-naked, stating that it could "poison" public.The billboard is then removed.


She has modeled for Subaru, accessorize, Brazil Besni clothing line, jewelry line Marco Bicego Italian, and rage. In 2009, she modeled for international Garnier.
On March 5, 2009, Refaeli received the "World Style Award," presented by the Women's World Awards, for her [18] In October of the same "natural elegance, a sense of style and compassion.", Refaeli co-host a press conference Fashionable Istanbul they announced in October 2009 fashion show, also appeared in ads. Refaeli voted # 42 in 2008, # 57 in 2010, and # 97 in 2011 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women" list and came first in the Maxim Hot 100 list 2012.


Film and television career

Refaeli co-starred in Israeli TV series Pick Up in 2005. In October 2008, he co-hosted Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America, based on book Ironic Iconic America written by George Lois. He returned as host of the program in 2009, this time for a brief revival MTV House of Style.

On January 18, 2011, Refaeli attends the premiere English-language films trial in Israel in which he starred. Directed by Israeli Haim Bouzaglo, the film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a manipulative psychologist who becomes obsessed with a new young patient.
He served as guest judge on a cycle of four TOPMODEL Next Germany hosted by Heidi Klum.


Business enterprises

In 2011, Refaeli and Dudi Balsar, a lawyer and former model, set up an e-commerce company called Undeez which will sell designer clothes. The company is scheduled to go online in November 2011.By November 2011, the company has collected $ 1 million in venture capital funds.



Personal life

Previously linked to Baywatch actor David Charvet and Uri El-Natan, Refaeli began a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio in November 2005 after meeting at a party in Las Vegas thrown in for member travel U2.In their trip to Israel in March 2007, the couple met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli hometown Hod HaSharon.The relationship ended in June 2009. Some reports, however, shows that, in early 2010, the romance may have rekindled.In May 2011, reported that the couple have ended their romantic relationship, although still remaining friends.


DiCaprio to do with Israel led to a nationalist organization sent a letter, later leaked to the press, in which he requested, for the sake of "future generations of Jews", not to marry "non-Jew", with a similar request was made, a few years earlier, Miss World winner for Israel Linor Abargil.


Refaeli told L'Isha magazine that she prefers to keep a low profile - although he came out with a lot of time DiCaprio. "I was there for him and me at all events," he said. "I just do not walk hand-in-hand with him I do not see any reason .. I do not need to strike poses with him in front of the camera. No one needs to know how we kissed.