Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on the cover of Harper's Bazaar's Body Issue… split ends?

Looking at Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on January’s Harper’s Bazaar it’s actually impossible to imagine finding even the tiniest flaw on her bod (though FF would love to get up close to check for split ends, at the very least). Apparently though, not everyone agrees. Poor RHW tells Bazaar that when she moved to the big bad US from her Devon hometown, she encountered a barrage of criticism.

‘All I kept hearing was, “honey, you gotta change this; your hair’s this; your legs are that; you’re not enough this; you’re not enough that; you’re too much this; why are you wearing that?”. It was a constant stream of judgement.’

Things are different in the UK though, RSW insists. ‘I have a different feeling when I come back to England; as soon as I touch down in Heathrow and drive into London and down to Devon, there’s a sense of home and belonging,’ she says. Phew. Given that Rosie’s not only the star of Bazaar’s Body issue but is also the face and figure of Burberry’s Body perfume, it is clear that us Brits are a bit more forgiving of such aesthetic imperfection… And that the sharp-tongued American critics need to clean their specs.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley photographed by Tom Munro