Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on how ambition fuels her

Me and Pete Ball Maxwell were sitting in the front row. It was like then oh you live in Los Angeles it's because of your job when you go oh do you think I'm an actress? Yes, I just saw you in Mad Max, you were amazing. We said no, no, no, I'm not an actress. Definitely not, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. I'm glad I did it, but I failed. It was something. I felt very lucky. I was able to try my hand, but nothing. I never had a passion for it and I failed. Other things in my life and that's a completely different story, but yeah, that led me to Victoria Secret, we don't know, the Michael Bay commercial then cast me in Transformers and then with that came all this repositioning of me within my work and Also at that time the industry made a big change, I think social networks.

It just started to come into play and I think these girls that were considered commercial had a lot more like accessibility, a word, there was just a service that a consumer or an audience related to more with commercial models, so the industry would seed, you already know. These girls' following and their audience was much bigger and then Mushaf happened where you started seeing other women that you know in this kind of couture and walking down the runway and suddenly we were embraced in a different way and we had a voice, Yeah. and then of course social media has really taken off in the last few years, which we can talk about because I mean, your social media is amazing.

I swear you would like to put a chair and I want that change, oh well. I don't know, it's like your aesthetic is in what you have a social media team that helps me do for Rosing, but for me I do have help. You know, I'm just taking pictures all the time. I see inspiration around me everywhere and I see it through furniture I see it through art I threw it through galleries architecture fashion cinema and I felt why am I not sharing all these things that I have like countless photographs and it's good to know that people respond to them Well I'm a responder like a nice grid yeah girl well you're rock cool and it's consistent it's very color coordinated so let's fast forward yeah you did fashion you did runway you just arrest. so many wonderful moments and now you're a mother and Jack is... jack is... in a moment oh and I just want to talk about what that is, what motherhood means to you oh, it's such a journey it's hard to even put it into words really because I will say that I don't think I was in any way prepared for the emotional side of becoming a mother.

I had never really been around babies before I knew it was time to start a family and I knew I had this inkling in me that I wanted to have a baby, but the maternal instinct never kicked in until I gave birth. It really was incredibly overwhelming on so many different levels because here I was Here I am with this newborn baby that I had this overwhelming feeling of love for and here there is a huge change of identity and that first year for me was a mix of pure joy and a lot of anxiety learning as I was redefining my identity for myself, for my partner, for my work, for my son and it is a very intimate and really beautiful personal experience because I feel that I have evolved and grown a lot and there is nothing that comes close to being proud that I feel from him and what I mean is that I just stare at her and I can stare at him. all day whoo, yeah, yeah, because you're so close to your mom, have you taken any advice from her amazing Jack?

Yeah, you know he's funny. I think also when I found out she was pregnant, you reminisce a lot. your own childhood, you look at the things that were really impactful to you, the things that really shaped you, the things that didn't shave you, the things that didn't shave you or dare you and you start to cultivate your own path. of being a father, you know, I had a wonderful childhood on many levels and that, but there are a lot of things that I want to do differently, you know, I'm 32, 32 years ago, my parents came from, you know, a completely different generation and you know the world I live in now compared to the world I grew up in, which was a very sheltered, rustic rural life and the world I live in today and the challenges and the opportunities and the exciting, fast-paced world I live in is very different from my own childhood, so yeah, she's there, she's there at the end of the phone and again she's very supportive and she always has my back.

Do you know how to make sure my mom is the same? I've done this. Just like you know you're right, my pregnancy has been inside me, it's been like a rollercoaster of emotions. I mean in my first trimester I was tired and like a little dizzy and then towards the end I think I started crying a lot because my body was changing so quickly and you know, I talked about it because I want to talk about it. I've had really terrible days. I've had really good days. You know, everyone can tell you how cute your belly is, but. when your body is changing so quickly it's like you have to succumb to it, yes, did you have a similar experience?

I gained a reasonable amount of weight. I gained about 55 pounds. I feel like I'm on my way to There I'm 40 years old right now and I still have more money, yeah, listen, I enjoyed it, you know? It's a new variation, so you're like, wow, let's see how this goes in six months and I was like that. It was an intense trip and it was also something so magical to see you. I never felt more like but towards the end I basically walked around naked for the last time that's who I am and at the end I just felt really empowered in my body, but it took me a minute to get there and then certainly after when I had Jack and he was looking at me in the mirror and I thought I had 35 or 40 pounds to lose and I go to the gym. going to the gym going to the gym doesn't fall doesn't rise was very humbling for me because you know having had a certain body type yeah you know for most of my life certainly in the last few years I've never felt more fit. shape, I was very thin, I was in good shape and people always ask me about my body, my training and you hear yourself saying that you know how to train three times a week and I did it, I did it, I did it on air and I felt like No, I can't tell people. how to feel about their bodies because everyone has a different experience and I will say like working in the gym and looking back and feeling like I was now.

I understand how difficult it is for some people to go to the gym and it took me a long time to see that weight change and I have had girlfriends who lost it in two or three months. There was a recovery that was taking place and in my case I breastfed for six months. I didn't lose a pound. I breastfed. and I ate a lot because you are starving and you want to eat, eat, eat. I was hungrier when he was born, but you need to produce the adequate milk your body needs. I would eat an entire box of bran flakes for the first time in my life.

Anyway, I once craved bran flakes, it took me a whole year, it was right after the Met Ball and I got on the scale and I thought, oh, I'm back to where I was, but it took a long time and it was a really great experience. humiliating for me because yes, I remember there was a bit of press about you in a swimsuit and the press was tearing you apart and it was so ugly that we were saying yeah, I couldn't believe it. That's funny because I didn't know anyone actually saw that stuff and, um, it was in a shoe, the only reason I saw it was because it's obviously in my wheelhouse, yeah, I figured someone had sent it to me and it was like was in this disgusting place.

Yeah, the girl is like a size six. She had gone to a photo shoot for my swimsuit line. Yes, we were in the Caribbean. I'm frolicking on the beach having fun with my team. You know, very unconscious and the next day he rules the session and the photographers like it. there are tons of paparazzi photos and I'm like, oh my gosh, and I'm always like that because I don't care, I actually care about being packed very uncomfortable, especially when this sneaker ooh, yeah, it's very unnatural the whole experience of being spied on. or even if they're there, it's something I've never felt uncomfortable with, so the press comes out and you know, I read it like sometimes you just read these things.

I don't read things often but I wanted to see the pictures so I read it and I was a little surprised at some of the comments people had and I was also bothered by the kind of narrative about how women are supposed to look, it didn't look like so much to Oh, that's really painful for me, like I'm used to things over the years. I can ignore it. It was shocking, like watching someone write about another ruined body after a baby and you say you know I'm safe. I haven't recovered, it's been seven months, but you know, you look at those things that come with the territory, but it's not fair, it's never going to be fair for a couple of days, it's strong for a couple of days, but it keeps going and it makes you stronger and that, but actually it was more like we were still in this place where we have to how to defend our body, a sherab like recovering after a baby, it's just that everyone's body is different, everyone is on their own account. journey and I really want every mother to really focus on herself ultimately but also on the time with her child and it will come and it will happen and everyone will come back to a place where they will feel good again and well that's good advice that I follow .

I feel better now and have a different respect for my body than before. I'm going to take that ice home and really keep it, yeah, dear to my heart because I keep thinking about what happens next, but I need, no, I need. thinking about focusing on my baby and you know it's another Russia, yeah, pressure and funnily enough I didn't put too much pressure on myself because I probably could have lost control a lot quicker, but I was at home and I took some time off from work. I was with my family and it was slower, but you know you never get that time back, you never get it back, so I'm glad I did it that way, is this part of the reason you decided not to do Jack's face.

Socially for me it was like it was a no-brainer, I really always felt very strongly that it should be Jack's decision if he wants to live a public life. I just dread the thought of him turning to me in 1516 and saying, you and dad just didn't protect me, you're holding me back, it should be his choice. I want him to feel normal because without trying, he's going to bleed and you know it, and it's really different for everyone and I don't judge either. way, but that's what seems most authentic to me and that's what you know, I know it's so good, I'm so curious because you know how to have this baby and I know it's so hard, how do you do it with the family that you like ?

Sending pictures I just tell them not to pose, people are very respectful, Jason and I have always been pretty private, you know, we dated for 10 years, it's like we're pretty low key, we just like to keep things real and I want to cross the door of my house and being, you know, however small and real it is, and then when I go to work, it's like a change of identity and yeah, it just helps me process everything that I need to feel that thing with the feet on the ground. Talk about what's going on with you now, rose, I mean, the whole creative process happened in your third trimester.

I had the idea of ​​setting up a content platform for quite some time every time I sat down for an interview. The journalist was asking me for advice, for my tricks and I could see there was an appetite for it so I had this idea and I've always been a lover of fashion magazines, blogs, websites and content platforms so I really just I kind of wanted to build something and for several years I had been thinking a lot about it and of course I was on a plane every ten days, two weeks, every five days, like I was traveling all over the place.

I said yes to everything and I had fallen. I was pregnant and I thought, "Okay, I'm still going to work, so I still had to work during my pregnancy, but I'm going to stop traveling a little bit and I formed a team and we literally sat around my kitchen table for a year." while I was pregnant while I was breastfeeding and still now Jack comes to some of the meetings anywhere in the house, we have an office now, but we started in 2017, we started building and then we launched in 2018, you know, we're 18 months now. , 18 months later, when you started you had seven employees, yeah, we have about 6 to 7 employees in the office, okay, and then you know we have our kind of creative teams that you know we are also outsourced and we work regularly with videographers, photographers and editors and graphic designers and all that, it's like people need to be in the office every day, so yeah, it's a full operation, it's growing and it's changing rapidly and it's very exciting.

Bruises are completely digital beauty. Yes, think of it as an online beauty magazine. My intention was to really build a community of beauty lovers and share everything I've learned over the 16 or 17 years. Well, because the makeup. chair as a model, it's like every day you get a new tip or trick, every day you work with a new test or analysis that you've worked with for years and I felt like this is what people want to know. I want to democratize this type of information and make it available to people and that is why it is also my passion and I want to share I wantknow what they want I want to start a dialogue and a conversation about something I'm passionate about, I feel comfortable talking about it, so we launched the site.

I launched a YouTube channel and it's really about celebrating artists within the industry, highlighting outstanding products, highlighting new experts, new influences and just having this place where we can all talk. and sharing and talking about everything and anything related to beauty and deeper and what beauty really means to people on a deeper level so I know I actually started using Katie Jane Hughes because you posted her on your Instagram. I know she is the best. She was cool and she was like who is this girl and then she says she didn't have an agency so I DM her yeah and it's like a new wave.

I love it. One of my favorite things about social media is finding new talent and building relationships with them, and it's been really special. being a small part of some of these people's similar stories and you know there are so many different ways to launch your career now it's the traditional route as an artist and then there's this new wave and I and I really want to celebrate everything Where do you see pink ink in the next five years? I see the content continuing to get stronger and you know all the other stuff. I need you happy.

Some I have, yeah, you've seen really cool packages, yeah, I see them as ambitious, you know? Just in case I'm not going to say anything today, but all that stuff is fine, so skincare, makeup, hair and you also have Mark and Spencer's autograph for Rosie and that lingerie, yeah, I mean, It takes over, it's everywhere, yeah, how long? Have you had that line that he is now, that is flexible for us? Tell us some stats girl, yeah, so I signed with Marks and Spencers, the face of womenswear, and that was about eight years ago, when I was a young model, I'd always done a lot of lingerie. shirts and those I would work for vs.

I decided to step away from BS when I was 24 because I really knew I wanted to have my own line and that's where they are. I reached the ceiling where I wanted to go with BS and things changed in the company. I felt like it was time to branch out and do my own thing and I always believed that one piece of career advice that someone gave me is that you should always look at your partners and your relationships and your contacts that you already have, so I started doing a little bit of research on Marks & Spencer and what I learned very quickly was that they are by far the most dominant lingerie retailer in the UK.

It owned a third of the lingerie market in the United Kingdom. Wow, so the statistic is that one in three women are wearing a Marks & Spencer bra at any given time, so one in three women who probably have Rosie on their breasts right now, hopefully, yeah, I think. then there's a fun statistic and you know, statistics or whatever, but it's like one in three women are wearing a Mike Spencer bra and then one in three are wearing a Rosie bra, which is great, so yeah , whether it is true or not, even if you say it. So I did this kind of research and I felt bold, as most of my start-ups start, and somehow, naively, I went to the board and directors of Marks & Spencer and said, would you be interested in doing a collaboration? with me and they said yes, but let's start little by little, I don't know if it will go anywhere, we will do a season, we will keep it very small and I think at that time they just wanted you to have my face in lingerie, so it was an opportunity to to do that, it became a dream where we dabbled in activewear, swimming, fragrances, beauty, Wow, loungewear, it's a great example of just going out and getting what you want, listen, that's just it.

The way I do things is like I see something. I chase him. I love it. You can say no, it's being bold and just going for what you want if you really believe in yourself. I feel like other people. believing in yourself is contagious, right, I love it, yes, so you are a mother, you are a business woman, you are a wife, you are a model, you are traveling, you have employees, oh, I have your style icon, there are so many things, but which one is it? work life, your personal balance, self-care balance? I know there is no such thing as perfection, but what is it for you that keeps you grounded?

I know you've talked about The Four Agreements being kind of a book that was really Near and Dear, but I just want to know what keeps you grounded or balanced. It's a really important question because I feel like that's definitely what I'm experiencing right now, being a new mom and being someone who finds a lot of passion in my work, finds that balance is a struggle, prioritizes my family first and foremost and that's like no, no, no, no, cheval, yes, but you know, with a career like ours, it can come and go very quickly and Probably well, you know you're, you're in this, you do a lot while the sun shines, you see opportunities and you have to be aware of them and that's also something that I feel like I've always tried to do, it's kind. of looking forward and saying yes and moving forward with things and balance is something I don't really know if I believe in.

I think it's another pressure, but I think you try to prioritize your family first when you're in one. scenario, whether I'm in the office or at home, whether I'm wearing a shoe or I'm outside with my kid or I'm on vacation, you know, whatever I'm doing to work wherever I am. I try to be really present so that when I'm with my son the phone goes off. You know, I'll lock it in the bathroom. My time is him. I'm going to dedicate myself to him when I'm at work. I focused on that and of course I'm approachable, but yeah, you know, I surround myself with a really wonderful team.

I have a wonderful team of women that I work with and a couple of men that I adore and Jason really owns it. One of the most real foundations was the people I know and, honestly, he was the person who supported me the most. You know, he's always really encouraged me and he's always been my number one fan and he goes both ways and I think with that and with my parents' encouragement. and the support and love of the friends and family around you, you feel like you can fly a little bit, but you know, I've had a very busy couple of weeks and I'm really looking forward to going to London on Sunday and knowing that I'm going to have a weeks off and I can take my son to all the museums.

I'm really excited to be able to take him too, so go see plays, spend time with his uncles and grandparents, and you know, all that. things that I'm making sure you really schedule time with your family, like going on vacation, Jason took two years off, yeah, during his pregnancy, that's so sweet. Still, you know he's in a different place too, he was really thinking about it. the other day was really cool because when we were home in Los Angeles I'm almost nine to five. I'm out during the day and he's home a lot. Yeah, you know he's an actor, so he's also gone for a few months or he's home and when he goes to work, I usually go with where he is, so his last few projects have been in London, which has It's been great, we can move and when I'm in London things are a bit, you know, I'm a bit further from the office, I'm not as available and even though I am, you know we're always available on the phone and all that, but It's like I saw it.

As you know, we can really support each other and be flexible with each other's projects and you know I realized and I was very grateful that we had that kind of flexibility between us, but yeah, he's obedient, it took a good couple of years. and you know he loves being a father. I love it, it's really cool to see that's what Murray loves and to see this great guy, yeah, well, it's a great way to end this. Thank you very much for One of the last things we do on a pretty important matter is we do a lightning round of boldly fast live questions because you only have to answer the simple question: What's the last penny you spent?

Yesterday I bought a Vanessa tote bag from papa with talk. another yes how many do you have now what color is it I bought a beige I bought a beige new type of cross I don't like it but they are like collector's items yes the color and I was there yes so I thought that yesterday with it it's okay, yes, the biggest deal breaker for me like liars hmm and when I don't like working on anything where it's not collaborative, I need to have my voice, I need to feel like I'm part of a deal breaker, yeah. "Okay, and because you are, I am very important and you are very important, what is very important to you, something very important to me, is that my son today leaves his old preschool with something like you." I made a kind of pumpkin image and I glued a lot of things, but the shipments are like the best, yes, very nice, thank you something, thank you for being here, thank you Ashley, don't forget to join the conversation on the networks social.

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