Bar Refaeli (Hebrew בר רפאלי, born June 4, 1985 in Hod HaSharon) is an Israeli supermodel.
Bar Refaeli was born on June 4, 1985 , in a Jewish family. Her parents, Rafael and Tzipi , had a horse ranch, where Bar spent most of his childhood. Bar began to modeling at five months old in television commercials , but he made a long pause he returned to work as a model at age 15, represented by Irene Marie Models agency. In 2000 and 2001 he won the title of Model of the Year. She was selected as a model and appeared in Renuar catalogs summer 2002 and winter 2003.
Later appeared in the French ELLE magazine . It was on the cover of GQ Italy in March 2006 . In 2007 he made his first appearance in Sports Illustrated, was the first Israeli model to appear in this magazine. In that occurrence posed with the band Aerosmith and in 2008 did a photo shoot for the same magazine in Caesarea and the Dead Sea . Shortly afterwards, the images of this journal were published in the magazine Maxim.
In 2007 he was chosen as an image campaign for spring / summer of the English Court .
The British magazine Arena named 2008 best body in the February issue .
On February 9, 2009 was announced as the special cover of Sports Illustrated bikinis . The February 14, 2012 model launch her own line of lingerie, Under.me.
In 2013 he starred in a controversial announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel to promote the country abroad. The Israeli army has already criticized that they believe is not an example to follow , as not completed compulsory military service.