Did you know Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has a penchant for historical monuments? That the three people, dead or alive, she'd love to have dinner with are Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? And that she keeps a little Hermès clock - a gift from partner Jason Statham - on her bedside table?
Well, thanks to the likes of Kourtney Kardashian, Cindy Crawford, Jack Whitehall and Alexa Chung, now you do.
To celebrate the model, entrepreneur and businesswoman's April 2021 ELLE UK cover, 27 of Huntington-Whiteley's friends recorded video messages asking the mother-of-one some very important questions.
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Asked by Balmain's creative director Olivier Rousteing about the worst moment in her fashion history, though you might not believe she even has any given her successful career and her reliably chic street style, Huntington-Whiteley said she 'definitely has a few dodgy looks' in her catalogue.
'It’s probably on a shoot or during a fashion show when I haven’t gotten to choose the look,' Huntington-Whiteley explained. 'Luckily most of those hideous looks are buried because so many of them took place before everything went on the internet. I do remember one shoot and having a crown made out of candles and the clients said ‘we’re just going to light the candles on the crown’ and I remember thinking Oh my gosh my hair is going to go.
'Before I filmed Mad Max, I had to have a whole body cast made of me. They had to paper mâché my head and make this mould of my face. When they took it off, all of my eyelashes were ripped out in the process.'
Ouch.
Also appearing in the video is documentary TV presenter Stacey Dooley who asked for the one thing Huntington-Whiteley wants her son, Jack, to grow up 'knowing about women'.
'I think about this all the time as a mother raising a young boy,' she admitted. 'I really hope that he grows up seeing women as multi-dimensional, women who can be ambitious and get out there and do things with their life in whatever sense that means for somebody. I hope that he has a lot of respect for women, that’s something that’s really important to me, that he listens. And it’s not just about listening but also hearing what a woman has to say.'
Finally, as someone who has achieved so much throughout her career, brow expert Sherille Riley wanted to know what advice Huntington-Whiteley would impart to her 16-year-old self, if she had the chance.
'It will all work out,' she said refreshingly. 'Wear the really short dress, don’t give a f*ck what the guy has to say about how you look. Go to that party, stay out until late, grab life by the balls. Live in the moment and go for it. And it’s ok to lie in because once you have a kid you will never lie in again.'
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All very important mantras to live by.
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Olivia Blair is Entertainment Editor (Luxury) at Hearst UK, working across ELLE, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Olivia covers all things entertainment and has interviewed the likes of Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Michaela Coel and Ryan Gosling over the years.
