The gawky blonde who bloomed: How Transformers star Rosie Huntington Whiteley looked as a schoolgirl

By Rebecca Evans

Last updated at 1:32 AM on 9th July 2011


She may be regarded as one of the most beautiful women on earth.

But it wasn’t always the case, according to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

The star of Transformers 3 remembers being bullied at school for having a flat chest, bad skin, braces and big lips.

Catwalk queen: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in New York, and right, with a shy smile in her school uniform aged 12

These pictures from those days tell a different story, however. A little gawky maybe, but she was as pretty then as she is now.

With a friend’s arm gripped firmly around her shoulder, her blonde hair and wide grinning mouth mark her out for supermodel-dom.

The images however do suggest her face has matured with age, her nose becoming thinner and more refined.

Growing up: Rosie, right, poses for the camera with a friend during her school days in Devon

Looking back at her school days in Tavistock, Devon, Miss Huntington-Whiteley, 24, recently claimed she was taunted because of her looks.

She said she was also teased for her ‘posh’ double-barrelled surname. ‘I was called kipper lips,’ she said, revealing that she was also threatened physically by groups of other girls.

Friends, however, remember things differently saying she was one of the most popular pupils.

Glamorous: The model on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscar party earlier this year

One said: ‘She was into amateur dramatics from a young age and you could see she might be a star.’

Miss Huntington-Whiteley is now enjoying fame and fortune with her latest film. But the writing was always on the wall.

After she had a growth spurt at 13 pupils voted her the ‘Girl Most Likely To Become A Supermodel’.


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