";s:4:"text";s:5426:" "She knows she did let herself go during the year, but she had fun doing it, just being herself and doing whatever she wanted,'' one friend, who did not want to be named, said.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the said she believes Heath would have been proud of her transition from the runway to the big screen. They had just spent Christmas with each other's families, when on January 22, 2008, Ledger died from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 28. The model-turned actress, who made her acting breakthrough in 2008 in Australian-British film The Black Balloon, is the voice of Coca-Cola Life and walked for Ellery at MBFWA.
After Ledger's death, Ward announced that she planned to take a year off to go trekking in Nepal and spend time with friends and family. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out.
I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.". Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. Everything you need to know about and expect during, the most important election of our lifetimes. Onlookers said Ward was barely recognisable as the supermodel who, at the age of 16, became the youngest female to grace the cover of US Vogue. The Queen could promote coronavirus vaccine to convince people that it is safe , Government adviser says. "I kind of met him at first and said, 'Listen my mum's living with me right now and I'm kind of going through a hard time and I'm not interested in having a serious relationship with somebody right now' and he was like, 'You know, um, let's just be there for each other through these hard times we're both going through,'" says Ward. Don Arnold/WireImage; Dara Kushner/INFGoff. ', Mummy's girl! "It is interesting because as a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role," she tells the Sunday Herald Sun in Melbourne. "I was really surprised when I saw her, considering what she used to look like - I had to do a double-take after I saw how much weight she had put on,'' one onlooker told The Sunday Telegraph.
Ward has been exercising daily with the help of a personal trainer, but the pair have remained indoors. The model also explained her recent career break.
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