Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

By Ines Mendoza

Michael Bay certainly has an eye for talent, and also tight bodies. One would take a wild guess and assume he spend more time with his eyes on the latter.  It makes a lot of sense, from taking Megan Fox from unknown to teenage boy "spank bank" materiel in the course of one Transformers movie, it was only a matter of time before his eyes wandered onto the next big thing.

Well, it took him three Transformers movies to do it - but he found it : English model and actress Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley

Best known for her work wearing little more than her pride, this sexy pom has spent many years wandering around in lingerie for Victoria's Secret and Burberry - however, her butt has been seen in 3D most recently in the worldwide smash hit Transformers: Dark of the Moon (the third noisy episode in Michael Bay's Transformers franchise).

However, Huntington-Whiteley wasnt always a sexpot. She was, as we all were once, born a child. She entered this world in the Freedom Fields Hospital (which has since closed down), in Plymouth, Devon. While her immediate family come from humble beginnings (Her mother was a fitness instructor, her father a chartered surveyor) Rosie has a surprisingly interesting bloodline largely thanks to her great-great-grandfather being politician Sir Herbert Huntington-Whiteley, while her other great-grandfather was a prominent surgeon in Sussex.

Long before she was getting her kit off for cash and shaking her butt in front of transforming robots, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley grew up on a farm in Devon where she got dirty with the sheep, pigs and horses which wandered the land.

Rosie Huntington Whiteley

It wasn't long until she joined Tavistock College and was discovered by Profile Model Management during her time looking for internships with London-based modelling agencies.

As hard as it is to believe, Rosie was bullied at secondary school for having a double name, small boobs and full lips (things that would later become her calling card). But she showed those bullies, soon taking on her first major modelling job at the age of 16 for a Levi's commercial.

By 2004, she was the face of Abercrombie & Fitch and part of the coveted Victoria's Secret catalogue.

Despite this early success, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley remained somewhat unknown in the fashion industry until at least 2008, when she replaced Agyness Deyn as the major body for Burberry's autumn/winter campaign.

This was the stepping stone she needed which soon led to her first British Vogue cover (November 2008) alongside Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn in a story that celebrated British models. Then it started to rain! Rosie took out the Elle Style Award for 2009's "Model of the Year" and starred in a short film, modelled in campaigns for Godiva and Miss Sixty and in late 2009, was named an official Victoria's Secret Angel.

It was a big year for perverts in 2010, when Rosie did the thing every red blooded man had been waiting for... she posed nude for the Pirelli Calendar (which was photographed by the world famous Terry Richardson).

Success breeds success, so over the next few years she  has hit the runway for the likes of designers like Prada and Giles Deacon, Monsoon, Thomas Wylde, Harper's Bazaar Russia, GQ UK.

In 2012, Rosie was named the top style icon at the Elle Style Awards thanks largely to the exposure she found when she took over Megan Fox's role in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, having previously worked with Michael Bay on a Victoria's Secret commercial.

She'll next be seen in the film Mad Max: Fury Road, a sequel to the cult classic originally made famous by Mel Gibson.

We think it won't be the last we see of her...

Rosie Huntington Whiteley is a Sex Goddess