THE SMILE OF BAR REEAELI

Her serene expression and ready smile say it all Bar Refaeli is happier than she's ever been

Two decades since she first found fame, she still looks every inch the supermodel... But a lot else has changed. These days, she's married to the love of her life, entrepreneur Adi Ezra, and is a blissfully happy mum to their three young children. Rather than travelling the world, she spends most of her time in her native Israel, with her work projects including a TV reality show - carefully chosen to fit around her family. So we were lucky to be able to catch up with Bar recently in Madrid, which she was visiting as ambassador for Spanish shoe brand Xti

Bar, how have you changed personally, since you started out in the fashion industry?

I feel sure of myself, much more than I did back then. I used to care a lot about what people thought of me, but now, I have enough self-confidence to push those thoughts away. And that’s really liberating.

Do you think the fashion world has undergone a change?

I think the biggest change is that these days, we don’t only see skinny women on the catwalk, or in magazines and advertisements. There’s a new commitment to authentic beauty.

What are your earliest memories from when you were starting out?