Alana Stewart

Born Alana Kaye Collins in San Diego, she grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas, and Houston,{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20072883,00.html|title='Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?'|last=Jerome|first=Jim|date=1979-02-05|magazine=People|accessdate=2008-07-29|archive-date=2016-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921041712/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20072883,00.html|url-status=dead}} before heading to New York to become a model. She claimed to have grown up in poverty. Collins signed with Ford Models and traveled to Los Angeles for many television and commercial appearances.

In the early 1970s, she began an acting career. Her first role was a bit part in the biographical film Evel Knievel, which starred her then-husband, George Hamilton. She later made guest appearances on television shows such as The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and The Love Boat.

In 1995, she and ex-husband George Hamilton hosted their own syndicated talk show, George & Alana.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20102017,00.html|title=Ex Marks the Spot|last=Schindehette|first=Susan|date=1995-11-16|magazine=People|accessdate=2008-07-29|archive-date=2016-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830201901/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20102017,00.html|url-status=dead}} The series was cancelled the following year.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/43/George-Hamilton.html|title=George Hamilton Biography (1939-)|publisher=filmreference.com|accessdate=2008-07-29}}

In 2003, Stewart was a contestant in the ABC reality series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,408391,00.html|title=Welcome to the Jungle|last=Susman|first=Gary|date=2003-01-15|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=2008-07-29|archive-date=2008-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013235335/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,408391,00.html|url-status=dead}}

From 2006 to 2009, Stewart filmed and produced an Emmy-nominated 90-minute documentary, "Farrah's Story", chronicling her friend and fellow model Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer.{{Cite news|last=Tourtellotte|first=Bob|date=2009-07-16|title=Emmy nod bittersweet for maker of "Farrah's Story"|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emmys-fawcett-sb-idUSTRE56F5X220090716|access-date=2021-02-21}}

In 2012, she guest-starred in an episode of the Caruso|Portier web series DeVanity as Claudia Muller, the mother of Lara Muller DeVanity and Dr. Portia Muller Roth.{{cite web|url=http://www.devanity.com/#!episode-seven/ckf9|title=DeVanity: Season 2, Episode 7 "Other People's Bodies"|publisher=devanity.com|accessdate=2013-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922120409/http://www.devanity.com/#!episode-seven/ckf9|archive-date=2015-09-22|url-status=dead}}

In 2014, Stewart, who is a Republican, endorsed her friend, Independent candidate Marianne Williamson, for U.S. Congress in California's 33rd district.{{Cite web|last=Fortini|first=Amanda|date=2014-04-25|title=Marianne Williamson is Campaigning for a Miracle|url=https://www.elle.com/life-love/society-career/marianne-williamson-profile|access-date=2021-02-21|website=ELLE|language=en-US}}

Stewart is a Trump supporter, having voted for him in 2016 and 2020.{{Cite web|date=2017-09-13|title=Alana Stewart talks about if Donald Trump will damage media freedom of press while shopping in Bever|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trJu4hU_gKA |website=The Paparazzi Gamer via YouTube}}{{Cite web|last=Nolan|first=Emma|date=2020-11-04|title=Conservatives turn against Fox News over election coverage, change channel to Newsmax|url=https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-arizona-biden-filpped-newsmark-trump-1544688|access-date=2021-02-21|website=Newsweek|language=en}} She opposes restrictions on gun ownership, aside from "stringent background checks".{{Cite web|last=McKay|first=Hollie|date=2014-12-20|title=Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns {{!}} Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alana-stewart-hollywood-honchos-hypocritical-when-it-comes-to-guns.amp|access-date=2021-02-21|website=Fox News}} Post-divorce, she has lived alone and keeps her gun on her bedside table.

Stewart was a signatory of the bipartisan letter calling for Walmart to allow sales of the DVD and Blu-ray discs of the 2019 political documentary No Safe Spaces.{{Cite web|last=Bond|first=Paul|date=2020-06-23|title=Conservative, liberal celebs urge Walmart to allow sale of free speech film|url=https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-liberal-celebs-urge-walmart-allow-sale-free-speech-film-1511338|access-date=2021-02-21|website=Newsweek|language=en}} After Fox News called the 2020 presidential election in Arizona for Joe Biden, she was among the list of conservatives who ceased supporting the news channel and switched to Newsmax.

She married actor George Hamilton in 1972. They had one child, a son named Ashley Hamilton. The couple divorced in 1975.

In 1979, she married singer Rod Stewart. The couple had a daughter, Kimberly, and a son, Sean. Alana and Rod Stewart divorced in 1984, but she retained his surname.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/01/rod.stewart.child/index.html|title=Stewart to be father again at 60|date=2005-06-01|publisher=CNN.com|accessdate=2008-07-29}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104899,00.html|title=I Married a Wanted Man|last=Armstrong|first=Lois|author2=Cunneff, Tom|author3=Johnson, Kristina|author4=Ramsay, Carolyn|author5=Sanderson, Jane|author6=Matsumoto, Nancy|date=1995-01-23|magazine=People|accessdate=2008-07-29|archive-date=2008-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621033755/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104899,00.html|url-status=dead}}

In the early 1990s, Stewart discovered she had the Epstein-Barr virus after suffering from symptoms caused by the virus for two decades.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-07-30-stewart-virus.htm|title=Alana Stewart bounces back from Epstein-Barr|date=2001-07-31|work=USA Today|accessdate=2008-07-29}} In 1994, she began speaking out about her illness and revealed that she removed her breast implants because she felt they contributed to her illness.

Stewart was a close friend of Farrah Fawcett, who died in 2009 after a long battle with cancer,{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|date=2009-06-30|title=Farrah Fawcett being remembered at LA funeral|url=https://www.deseret.com/2009/6/30/20326422/farrah-fawcett-being-remembered-at-la-funeral|access-date=2021-02-21|website=Deseret News|language=en}} and {{as of|2018|lc=y}} she was the President/CEO of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation.{{cite web|title=Farrah Fawcett Foundation - Board of Directors|url=https://thefarrahfawcettfoundation.org/board-of-directors/|website=thefarahfawcettfoundation.org|accessdate=30 March 2018}} Her 2009 New York Times best seller My Journey with Farrah: A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship is dedicated to her journey with Fawcett.

In 2012, she published a book titled Rearview Mirror: A Memoir, detailing her upbringing, her early career as a model, her marriages and subsequent divorces, and the deaths of her mother and Fawcett.

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