Abbey Kershaw Net Worth

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Abbey Lee Kershaw was born on 12 June 1987, known professionally as Abbey Lee, is an Australian fashion model, actress and musician. Following several years of success leading up to the 2011 fashion seasons, V magazine dubbed Kershaw a supermodel.

Abbey Kershaw Biography

Kershaw was born in Melbourne. She is the daughter of Kerry, a psychologist, and Kim Kershaw, who played in the Victorian Football League for Richmond and Hawthorn. She has said that as a child, she was “always in the hospital.” At age four, she suffered from meningitis and had to have two spinal taps. She also had a tumour on the knee, and several broken bones from climbing trees. She grew up in Kensington and attended St Michael’s Catholic Primary school in North Melbourne. She has stated that she “grew up with 42 nationalities”, explaining that her primary school of 150 children was very multicultural. She then attended the Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy. She later went on to win the Australian 2004 Girlfriend Model Search.After high school, in 2005, she moved from Melbourne to Sydney to begin modelling. She lived 100 metres from the beach and it was while at the beach where she was scouted by Chic Management’s Kathy Ward, the model scout that also discovered Miranda Kerr and Samantha Harris. She signed with Chic Management within weeks.

 

In 2007, Kershaw signed with Next Management and by March had moved to New York City.

Kershaw made her debut in the 2008 New York Fashion Week, managing to walk a total of 29 shows for designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Halston, and notably closing for Rodarte. For her first time in Milan Fashion Week, she was booked as a Gucci exclusive.Later that year, in September, she fell in her high heels at the Rodarte show in New York. Then, a month later in Paris, she fainted at the Alexander McQueen show from wearing a very tight leather corset. Regardless of these two incidents, it did not affect her from booking more runways shows. Kershaw was one of new faces to appear on one of the fourteen covers of V magazine’s Autumn issue. On 15 November 2008, in Miami, she made her international TV appearance at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, modelling in the Pink Planet segment.

Kershaw has starred in the fragrance ads for Gucci’s new “Flora” scent since 2008.

In November 2009, Fashion TV placed her first in their First Face Countdown for Spring/Summer 2010.[citation needed] Kershaw had to sit out the Autumn 2009 shows due to a knee injury: she had torn ligaments and could barely walk.Kershaw was featured in the explicit shoot for the French magazine Purple Fashion published Autumn/winter 2009.  The infamous spread, shot by photographer Terry Richardson, caused outrage in the blogosphere, where Richardson was accused of cajoling the girls for his own sexual satisfaction.

 

In 2010, Kershaw was heavily in demand for campaigns, shoots and shows.

She took her own self-portrait for the new Rag & Bone Do-It-Yourself ad campaign spring 2011 along with models Sasha Pivovarova, Edita Vilkeviciute, Karolina Kurkova, Candice Swanepoel and Lily Aldridge.She earned $100,000 as an exclusive for Chanel, walking for their spring-summer collection in Paris. She skipped New York Fashion Week for London. V Magazine’s “The Discovery Issue” crowned Abbey Lee Kershaw as the new Supermodel. The magazine called Kershaw “the biggest fashion export from Down Under since Elle Macpherson joined the ranks of Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.”

Kershaw has been on the May 2011 cover of Numero,

 

In May 2014, Kershaw once again appeared on the cover of Vogue Australia and starred in two editorials on the same issue, in which was celebrate her debut into acting career. In August 2014 Models.com moved Abbey to the Industry Icon list considering her still going presence in fashion with big fragrances contracts as Flora By Gucci and Versace’s Yellow Diamond, although she was absent from runways and editorials to film Mad Max and Gods of Egypt.

Kershaw co-starred in the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, alongside Tom Hardy, and appeared in the film Gods of Egypt (2016), alongside Gerard Butler. In January 2015, it was confirmed that Lee will portray Sarah in the Nicolas Winding Refn-directed thriller film The Neon Demon and co-stars Elle Fanning. In February 2015, it was confirmed that Abbey Lee In Talks To Play Tirana In The Dark Tower.

 

She is friends with models Freja Beha Erichsen, Karmen Pedaru, Joan Smalls, Catherine McNeil, Crystal Renn and Courtney Eaton.She has a pet lizard named Annie Hall. Kershaw has 13 piercings in total: on her nose (her left nostril & septum), on the right nipple, a pierced belly button, and seven & two on her ears. She also has various tattoos, including; a small peace sign on the palm of her hand, an owl on her middle finger, the symbol for Gemini on her ankle, and a tattoo reading “truth”, hidden on the inside of her bottom lip. She has recently added two on the side of her stomach done in white ink. Kershaw is also an artist who does abstract painting and uses oil pastels. She is a drummer in an Australian band and hopes to pursue a broader music career in the future.

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