Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, actress, TV host, and entrepreneur who has been called “The Body” because of her high height and athletic figure. Since 1986, she has been on the cover of the “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit” issue a record five times, making her a supermodel. She was on the covers of a lot of well-known magazines, like British and Australian Vogue, New York, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and New York. When she was younger, she walked the runway for big names like Perry Ellis, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Louis Vuitton. She also appeared in commercials for brands like Revlon and Omega. She has started a number of businesses and has been the creative director and main model for them. These include a skincare line called “Elle Macpherson – The Body” and a world-famous lingerie line called “Elle Macpherson Intimates.” She was the executive producer and host of “Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model” and is now the executive producer of the American reality TV show “Fashion Star.” She has starred in films like “South Kensington” and “The Edge”, as well as supporting roles in films like “Batman and Robin” and “The Mirror Has Two Faces.”
Childhood & Early Life
In Australia, Elle Macpherson was born Eleanor Nancy Gow on March 29, 1964. She was the daughter of Peter Gow and Frances Gow, and she was named Elle Macpherson after her.
Her father was a businessman and a sound engineer who was also the president of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, an Australian professional rugby league team. Her mother was a nurse, and her father was an entrepreneur and a sound engineer. During the time she was 10, she and her two siblings lived with their mother.
Her mother married Neil Macpherson, a multimillionaire. She and her younger sister, Miriam Frances Gow (who is now a famous environmentalist, Mimi Macpherson), changed their last names to honor their stepfather. It’s not just her sister, Elizabeth. She also has a brother named Brendon, and they live together.
She was born and raised in East Lindfield, and now she lives there. In 1981, she earned her higher school certificate at Killara High School. She went to the University of Sydney to study law for a whole year.
Career
In the years before she started studying at the University of Sydney, she worked as a model in the US so that she could afford to buy her law books with the money she made. Her next stop was New York City, where she soon signed a contract with a company called “Click Model Management.”
In 1982, she made her first appearance in a TV commercial for a diet cola soft drink called “Tab,” which was made by “The Coca-Cola Company.” She became known as the “girl next door” in her home country because of a popular commercial.
Most of the rest of the 1980s saw her on a lot of magazine covers. She was on the covers of a lot of well-known magazines, like “New York,” “Australia and Britain,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “Cosmopolitan,” “Time,” and “Elle.” The latter saw her on many of its covers, as well as in all of its issues for six years in a row.
Once Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista were all supermodels again, she became one of them.
To show off her good looks, she started working for a French skincare company called Biotherm in 1985.
Her modeling career got even better when she was in the annual swimsuit issue of the American “Sports Illustrated” magazine in 1986. She set a record by being on the cover of the swimsuit issue five times in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006.
After she was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1989, they gave her the name Elle “The Body” Macpherson. As time went on, she used this name in many of her business ventures.
During her modeling career, she walked the runway for a lot of big fashion houses and high-end retailers, like Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, and Donna Karan. She has also been photographed by some of the best fashion photographers in the business, like Bob Carlos Clarke, Steven Meisel, Ellen von Unwerth, and Francesco Scavullo, to name just a few.
When he decided to try his hand at movies, Macpherson was having a great time as a model. He starred as a model in the Woody Allen movie “Alice,” which was released on December 25, 1990.
She has also tried to be an entrepreneur, and in 1990, she started a lingerie line with Bendon Limited Apparel called “Elle Macpherson Intimates.” A lot of people around the world have started to like it over time. It became the top-selling lingerie brand in Australia and Great Britain.
Elle Macpherson also has a line of beauty products called “Elle Macpherson – The Body” and a company called Elle Macpherson Inc.
She was naked in the 1994 hit movie “Sirens,” which caused a stir in the media. Her ex-boyfriends were also asked for more naked pictures. So, in May 1994, she did a naked photoshoot for “Playboy.” She did this so that she could show these pictures “on her own terms.”
Many big names in the movie business worked with her in the years to come. If Lucy Fell (1996) with Sarah Jessica Parker, The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) with Barbra Streisand, and Batman and Robin (1997) with George Clooney, were some of the movies that were made in 1996 and 1997. Along with Anthony Hopkins in 1997, she played the main role in “The Edge.” In 2001, she played the main role in “South Kensington.”
Among her many TV roles are: “A Girl Thing” (2001), “Saturday Night Live” (1996), “America’s Next Top Model” (2008, 2016), “Friends” (1999-2000), and “The Beautiful Life: TBL” (2009). She also hosted “Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model” (2010–2013) and “Fashion Star” (2012–2013). She is also the executive producer of the other show.
In 1999, she became the first person to have her face on a piece of legal tender when the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda used her face on a lot of stamps to pay for things.
She was part of the closing ceremony for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Other Australian icons were also there. She was also offered the job of an unofficial ambassador for the Australian government’s tourism department, which is run by the government.
As co-hosts for the Miss Universe 2001 pageant in Puerto Rico in May 2001, she and Naomi Campbell were in charge, and they did a great job!
Her Style Icon award was given to her in 2006.
She was named the Global Brand Ambassador for Revlon Cosmetics after she signed a three-year deal with the company in March of 2008. Since then, she has been in a lot of print and ad campaigns for the company.
Over the years, she has been in a lot of ads for things like Victoria’s Secret, H & M, Omega, Christian Dior, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Garuda Airlines, KFC, Chrysler, and Diet Coke.
Personal Life & Legacy
In the early 1980s, she had a relationship with Billy Joel, and he was her boyfriend. Gilles Bensimon is a French fashion photographer and the Creative Director of Elle magazine. She first met him in 1984. In May 1986, the two were married. After three years, they broke up.
Her boyfriend was Arpad Busson, a French financier who lived in London. They had a relationship from 1996 to July 2005. The people who live together have two sons: Arpad Busson, born in February 1998, and Aurelius Cy. Andrea Busson was born in February 2003.
He is the owner of a hotel and a billionaire from Miami, Florida. She started dating him in early 2009. It was after a short break-up that they got together again in March 2013. They got married in July of that year. Couple: In 2017, they told the world that they were going to get a divorce.
She is a UNICEF ambassador, a “Smile Foundation” ambassador in Australia, and a “RED” ambassador in Europe. She is also a patron of the National Association for the Children of Alcoholics.