Kelly Brook

She’s so much more than just a (big) pair of breasts—although several one track-minded men may beg to differ.

The lovely Kelly Brook is not only a U.K. model famous for being the bearer of natural 32E-sized breasts, but she is also a swimwear designer, TV presenter, actress, and currently engaged to famous actor Billy Zane, who is almost fourteen years her senior.

Brook was born on November 23, 1979, and studied in Rochester and at London’s Italia Conti stage school before she became an “official” professional model. Her modeling career actually began when she was sixteen when she won a beauty competition, and got her start working for various advertising campaigns—particularly for lingerie and beer. She also went on to model swimwear and sportswear, and even a little semi-nude and nude modeling.

Brook soon garnered much attention as a voluptuous model, and went on to appear in the Daily Star (their Page Three Girl), FHM, and Loaded. She appeared in and topped many men’s magazine’s sexiest women lists, including snagging the coveted #1 spot in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005.

One of her most impressive magazine spreads was a ten-page black-and-white feature in the October 2005 issue of British mag Arena; the photos were shot by renowned photographer David Bailey. Brook recently signed a major modeling contract to be the cover girl of Unilever’s body spray Lynx, which is called “Axe” in the U.S. She is also slated to launch her own fragrance, in a bottle shaped with her curves in mind.

Besides modeling, Brook has also worked as television presenter since 1997, working on MTV, Trouble TV, and Granada. In 1999, she landed what could have been her biggest presenter role as the female counterpart on The Big Breakfast, beating out Denise van Outen. However, she quit after only a half a year, after rumors circulated she was going to be fired for being too “dumb.” More recently, Brook presented ITV’s reality show Celebrity Love Island.

She has also developed somewhat of a career in TV and film acting with a variety of minor, supporting, guest-starring, and recurring roles. The most notable of these roles were as Lex Luthor’s (played by Michael Rosenbaum) girlfriend Victoria for four episodes in season one of Smallville, which also starred Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Kristen Kreuk, Annette O’Toole, John Glover, and John Schneider; as well as Lyle’s (Seth Green) girlfriend in the 2003 caper film The

Italian Job, which starred Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham—whom Brook dated before hooking up with Billy Zane—and Edward Norton.

Her first starring role came in 2004 in the low-budget School for Seduction, and then a year later she took a lead role in the mostly critically trashed horror House of 9. Also in 2005, she co-starred with Zane in Survival Island (originally titled Three), after which she and Zane requested her nude scenes be removed, but producers refused.

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