Professional Celebrity Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English beachwear designer, former fashion model, and sometime actress and producer. She is best known as an exemplary "professional celebrity" and as the spokesperson for Estée Lauder.

Hurley was born as a middle child in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Hurley's father, a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent, was a Major in the British Army, while her mother, an Anglican, was a schoolteacher at Kempshott Infant School. Her older sister Debbie is a literary agent and younger brother Michael works as an engineer.

Hurley took ballet classes as a child. She went to Kempshott Junior and Infants school and the Harriet Costello School, now known as Costello Technology College. Hurley later attended Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, for one year, followed by Basingstoke College of Technology, and won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre.

Whilst in her teens and before she was in the public eye, she became involved with punk fashion, where she dyed her hair pink and pierced her nose. She associated with New Age Travellers who sat under The Buttercross monument and the grounds of the Cathedral in Winchester, near to where she lived.