Rosie Huntington-Whiteley transformers the darkness of the Moon to brightness

 Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley is a British model and actress, she is best known for modelling for Victoria's Secret and for replacing Megan Fox as the lead female character in the upcoming film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, part of the Transformers franchise

Born in Devon, England, Huntington-Whiteley she started modelling when she was still in high school. After a year as an intern, she was asked to model, and by 16 she was traveling the world. “It’s a tough industry, and you sacrifice a lot, for sure,” she says for the Vanity Fair. “I learned pretty quickly that it wasn’t all parties and getting free clothes and getting paid a lot of money. To be successful, you’ve got to be professional.” That attitude saw her through the filming of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third installment of the franchise, in which both Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel reprise their roles. “I spent my whole summer with a bunch of testosterone-fueled men, including navy seals. It was fun going from fashion, where things are pristine and groomed, to an action set, where it was the end of the world. Every day I’d get my makeup done, and then there would be this moment when my makeup artist would have to destroy me.”

Photographs by Mark Seliger