Victoria's Secret Georgia Fowler Livin' The Dream

How cover girl Georgia Fowler went from New Zealand tomboy to Victoria’s Secret stunner

- Zeynep Yenisey

Jock, geek, homebody; the way Georgia Fowler later describes herself seems totally at odds with the ethereal beauty who steps out of an elevator and into a sprawling photo studio in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Her hair in a bun, slicked as if by the rain; she looks angelic if not wholly innocent, with the sort of bee-stung lips that cosmetic surgeons have made fortunes trying to copy. Fowler has to hop on a ight immediately aer her shoot with photographer Gilles Bensimon. Yet, despite the hectic day to come, there’s a striking tranquility about her, a serene quality perhaps instilled from an idyllic childhood spent on the beaches of New Zealand.

Her father is Australian golf pro-Peter Fowler, so athleticism runs in the family. “When my dad wasn’t on tour, he had me at the cricket nets or at the driving range with him,” she recalls. “I was quite the tomboy. I loved playing with the boys and putting my hand up for any and all sports available.”

Signed to a modeling contract at age 12 aer accompanying her older sister to a local agency in Auckland, Fowler was scouted by industry powerhouse IMG at 15, and moved to the U.S. at 18 to pursue her career. “Having the biggest modeling agency in the world asking you to move to New York was too much of an exciting opportunity to turn down,” she says.