Rachel Hunter has opened up about her seven-year marriage to Rod Stewart, including how they first met in the latest episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The former supermodel talked to fellow contestants about her relationship with the British rock star as they sat around the campfire.
Rachel shared details about how she and Rod met “in a nightclub” and their relationship developed from then.
“Literally three weeks later, I was engaged. Three months later I was married….”
When asked by fellow contestant and former Neighbours star Rebekah Elmaloglou, how long they had been married she replied: “We were together for like seven years… It was great.”
Barry Williams then asked her for more details, saying: “That world you stepped into had to be extraordinary, the indulgences, the money… at that time it had to be overwhelming in some ways?”
She agreed, explaining that at the time she felt like “the chameleon on top of the rock.”
“You just kind of adapt. We were on the road, it was magic.
“We had an amazing relationship and we have a lot of respect for each other, there are loads of kids involved. But it was just a beautiful seven years of my life that kinda happened.”
When she was interviewed for the show, the former model denied her marriage had been “crazy and wild”, saying “it was just part of my life”.
Rachel and Rod share two children together and separated when she was in her late 20s. They were married from 1990 to 2006.
The former supermodel said that turning 27 had impacted her way of thinking.
“Literally hitting that 27-year-old stage going ‘who am I, what am I, where am I going with my life?’” she explained, saying that despite their separation she and Rod remain “very good friends”.
This is not the first time Rachel has spoken about her relationship with Rod. In a 2001 interview, Rachel who was in her 30s at the time, opened up about how she felt she had lost her identity.
“To the outside world, I was mother of two beautiful kids, a wife to Rod and a successful model without any financial worries, but, inside, I was in torment,” she said.
“By the time I was 29, I had spent eight years with someone else’s group of friends…
“In the nine years we were together, I’d never done anything for myself. If you’d asked me then what I liked or didn’t like, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. I didn’t even have a hobby.
“Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they’re 25, I felt I no longer had an identity. I was just nothing.”
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