Elle Macpherson



Elle Macpherson (born 29 March 1964) is an Australian businesswoman, television host, model, and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname "The Body". She is also known as the founder primary model and creative director for a series of business ventures, including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and The Body, a line of skin care products.

In 2010, she became the host and executive producer of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model. She is currently the host and an executive producer NBC's Fashion Star.

Early life
==Macpherson was born   Eleanor Nancy Gow, in the   Killara  neighbourhood of   Sydney, the daughter of entrepreneur and sound engineer Peter Gow, a former president of a   Sydney rugby league  team, the   Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, and Frances Gow, a nurse. Macpherson’s parents divorced when she was 10 years old, and she moved with her mother and two siblings. Her mother later remarried, and a clerical mistake in registering at her new school meant that her name was changed from her father's, Gow, to her stepfather's, Macpherson. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">Macpherson grew up in East Lindfield, a suburb in the affluent  North Shore<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">of Sydney, and attended <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">  Killara High School<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">, completing her <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">  Higher School Certificate<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">in 1981. She briefly studied law for one year at the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">  University of Sydney<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">. Macpherson has a sister, businesswoman and environmentalist  Mimi Macpherson<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;">, also known as Miriam Frances Gow. ==

Personal life
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Macpherson met Gilles Bensimon in 1984 on a photo-session for Elle magazine. They were married in May 1986, and divorced in 1989. Macpherson has two sons, Arpad Flynn Alexander Busson (born 14 February 1998), and Aurelius Cy Andrea Busson (born 4 February 2003).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;">[6]  The father is her former partner, French financier Arpad Busson.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Macpherson lives most of the time in Britain along with her two sons.She speaks fluent French and conversational Italian and Spanish.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">From 2010 to early 2012, Macpherson was in a relationship with property developer Jeff Soffer.