"Best Sports Illustrated Model BAR REFAELI vs CRYSTAL RENN"

BAR REFAELI

Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי‎; born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli model, television host, and entrepreneur. She is considered among the most internation...

Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי‎; born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli model, television host, and entrepreneur. She is considered among the most internationally successful models to come from Israel, appearing on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and being voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. As a television host, Refaeli has hosted The X Factor Israel since 2013 and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv. As a result of her modeling and investment careers, her net worth was estimated at US$20 million in 2015. She was the highest-paid model in Israel according to Forbes Israel in 2013. Refaeli was born and raised in Hod HaSharon, Israel, to a secular Jewish family. In Hebrew, her first name means "wild" (as in nature), and her surname literally means "God heals" and is a derivative of the biblical angel Raphael. Her parents were both born in Israel, and her grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Italy, Lithuania and Poland. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Her father Rafi Refaeli is a horse stable owner, and her mother was a successful model in the 1970s under her maiden name Tzipora "Tzipi" Levine.

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CRYSTAL RENN

Crystal Renn (born June 18, 1986, in Miami, Florida) is an American plus-size model and author. Renn started her modeling career in high fashion at t...

Crystal Renn (born June 18, 1986, in Miami, Florida) is an American plus-size model and author. Renn started her modeling career in high fashion at the age of 14 after being spotted by a professional scout in her hometown in Clinton, Mississippi. Renn was told she would need to lose almost a third of her total body weight if she wanted to become a model. Later, after years of anorexia nervosa, Renn reassessed her diet and exercise habits. After gaining 70 pounds (32 kg) and re-emerging as a U.S. size 12, she was re-marketed by her agents as a plus-size model. Renn has authored a book, Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, about her experiences in the fashion industry in relation to her several body type transformations. On June 30, 2007, Renn married her longtime boyfriend Gregory Vrecenak at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan, New York. Fashion portraits of her wedding were taken by photographer Brian Boulos. In mid-2009 the couple ended their marriage. Renn currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. In November 2010, Renn said she had lost weight through hiking and yoga, and that her dress size dropped to a US 8.

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