In Love with Gemma Ward

Twenty five years ago, a star was born with the face that will launch a range of runway shows, magazine editions, and fashion campaigns and even enter the worlds of film and theater. Named Gemma Ward, this girl has made her comeback and perhaps is here to stay.

?It is interesting as a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role, ?she says to Sunday Herald in Melbourne. ?I am very devoted to things that I?m passionate about. I think in terms of me shying away from modeling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life ad obviously what people in the public see is that I?m pulling away from what is more public.?

Following the death of actor Heather Ledger whom she has been seeing, Ward retreated from the glamorous environment she was in and later explained, ?It was a reassessment of everything and I?ve made a commitment to myself to address some things that were coming up to do with Heath?s passing and also things that were troubling me since we met?, she says. ?So it was a retreat from many things in my life and I did think it was important for me to focus on those things?.

With the facial features of a doll, a nymph, or an angel, Ward wastes no time in returning to the spotlight after some years of backing away from the public from where she rose in fame as the face of gigantic fashion companies? campaigns, first face of the most celebrated designers? seasonal collections in different fashion capitals of the world, and as the cover girl of international fashion magazines. It is easy to imagine the famed model walking to the sound of runway music, posing amidst the flickering of cameras, and blending in with all the chatter and laughter of the fashion industry elite.

Ward possesses the magic to turn a photo or show into something heavenly, breathtaking, and state-of-the-art. Her beauty isn?t only timeless. It is subtle, fragile, and so intimate with nature that she might easily break and you?d do anything to protect her, like caging her in, as inhumane as it may sound.

While escorting friends to a modeling competition in Australia, she was discovered and then signed by New York??? agency IMG, mainly for her baby doll appeal. She was only fourteen.

Ward debuted as a model in 2003, at Australian Fashion Week. Two years later, she gained more status after replacing the award-winning Kate Moss as the face of Calvin Klein?s Obsession Night Perfume. Forbes labeled her among the world?s 15 top-grossing models when she started getting involved in catwalks and movies side by side. She got cast in films such as Baz Luhrmann?s ?The Great Gatsby?, and the fourth sequel of ?Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides?.

Up to now, Gemma Ward?s look remains the same- raw, lost, and child-like, that most prominent and influential fashion dictators swooned to when they laid their eyes on her for the first time.