

The Texas-born model with a mile-long stride who became a 1970s fashion icon and later navigated the worlds of rock royalty and media empires.
Jerry Hall emerged from Texas with a drawl and a formidable six-foot frame, a combination that would soon stop traffic on runways from Paris to New York. Discovered in the 1970s, she became the quintessential glamazon, her face gracing countless magazine covers and her long legs defining an era of high-gloss fashion. She was a muse to designers like Thierry Mugler and a fixture in the studio of photographer Helmut Newton. Her personal life became as storied as her career when she began a decades-long relationship with Mick Jagger, raising a family amidst the whirlwind of rock and roll. In a later act that surprised many, she married media titan Rupert Murdoch, bringing her distinctive presence into the heart of a global empire before their divorce. Hall’s life narrative is one of audacious reinvention, moving from the catwalk to castles with unflappable Texan poise.
1946–1964
The largest generation in history at the time. Shaped by postwar prosperity, the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, and Watergate. They questioned every institution their parents built — then ran them.
Jerry was born in 1956, placing them squarely in the Baby Boomers. The events that shaped this generation — postwar prosperity, civil rights, Vietnam, and the counterculture — shaped the world they entered and the choices available to them.
The biggest hits of 1956
#1 Movie
The Ten Commandments
Best Picture
Around the World in 80 Days
#1 TV Show
I Love Lucy
The world at every milestone
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space
Apollo 11: humans walk on the Moon; Woodstock festival
Watergate break-in; last Apollo Moon mission
Nixon resigns the presidency
Star Wars premieres; Elvis dies
Challenger disaster; Chernobyl nuclear meltdown
Dolly the sheep cloned
Twitter launches; Pluto reclassified as dwarf planet
Donald Trump elected president; Brexit vote
She was discovered while hitchhiking in France after her car broke down on a modeling trip.
She has a twin sister named Terry.
She posed for a famous portrait by artist David Hockney, which sold at auction for millions of dollars.
She and Mick Jagger have four children together: Elizabeth, James, Georgia, and Gabriel.
““My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.””