Facts

  • Birth Name: Bar Refaeli
  • Birthday: June 4, 1985
  • Birthplace: Hod HaSharon
  • Astro Sign: Gemini
  • Height: 5 feet 9 inches
  • Eyes: Blue
  • Hair: Dark blonde
  • Occupation: Model

Family:

  • Mother: Tzipi Levine
  • Father: Rafi Refaeli
  • Siblings: Brothers Dor and On Refaeli and Half Brother Neil

Things to know about Bar:

  • She’s a jewish
  • She used to have braces when she was a kid
  • She began her modeling career at the age of 8 months
  • She was the first israeli model to appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and also the first one to get the cover
  • She smokes
  • In 2007 she posed with the band Aerosmith for Sports Illustrated
  • She won the title “Model of The Year” in a beauty contest in 2000
  • A picture of her 2009 Sports Illustrated photoshoot was painted in a Boeing 377
  • On March 2009 she received the “World Style Award”, presented by the Women’s Worl Awards
  • In 2008 she co-hosted the Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America
  • She’s going to make her acting debut in a psychological thiller called Session, directed by Haim Bouzaglo
  • She was a gues judge on cycle 4 of Germany’s Next Topmodel
  • She’s a volunteer for Project Sunshine, a non-profit organization that provides free service and programs for childrens facing life-threatening illnesses.
  • She’s been dating american actor Leonardo DiCaprio since 2005
  • She’s a good friend of israeli model Esti Ginzburg
  • She married to a family friend to avoid the army service so she could be able to model. Now she’s doing work with them by going to visit injured IDF soldiers and encourage enlistment in the army when she goes to Israel
  • She always go with Leo to his events, but she doesn’t go to the red carpet because she doesn’t want to get attention
  • She appeared in David Letterman’s show in 2009 to promote Sports Illustrated
  • Her favorite part of her body is her chin
  • She said once that she doesn’t own a place anywhere, but she spends most of her time in the US
  • Her mom is her manager
  • To be the Cover of Sports Illustrated was one of her dreams since she was 15
  • She has an earing in her belly buttom
  • She owns at least 100 bikinis
  • She created the “Little Black Bikini” with Hurley
  • She met France president Nicolas Sarkozy when she was invited to attend a State Dinner held in France for the visiting Israeli President Shimon Peres
  • She was asked by her government to represent Israel at the World Travel Market tourism fair in London
  • She just opened her twitter account, follow her @OFFICIALBR.