Alex Curran
{{Short description|British model}}
{{about|the wife of footballer Steven Gerrard|the rugby league player|Alex Gerrard (rugby league)}}
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| birth_name = Alexandra Curran
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|09|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Aintree, Merseyside, England
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| height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}}[http://ifdb.co/models/alex_curran/1225 The Internet Fashion Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816105613/http://ifdb.co/models/alex_curran/1225 |date=16 August 2011 }} Retrieved and verified on 29 May 2011
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| spouse = {{marriage|Steven Gerrard|2007}}
| children = 4
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Alexandra Gerrard (née Curran; born 23 September 1982) is an English model, fashion columnist for the Daily Mirror, and the wife of former Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard. She was described as a leading "WAG" of the England national football team, along with women such as Victoria Beckham and Coleen Rooney. In 2007, the Times referred to her, then Steven Gerrard's fiancée, as an "über-WAG"."tussling over the remote with his über-WAG fiancée" – Times Magazine, 17 February 2007 On 29 October 2007, she launched her own fragrance, named "Alex", which was one of the top sellers of 2007.[http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1891433.0.scents_sensibility.php Scents and Sensibility] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101025641/http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1891433.0.scents_sensibility.php |date=1 January 2009 }}, Sunday Herald, 8 December 2007
Writing
Curran wrote a weekly column for the Daily Mirror, titled "Go Shopping With Alex Curran". She wrote a weekly column for OK Magazine from 2009 until January 2013.[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/may/25/g2 Lost in Showbiz], The Guardian, 25 May 2007
Personal life
A former nail technician, Curran was born in Aintree, Merseyside and raised in Maghull, and attended Maghull High School. Curran and Steven Gerrard have been a couple since 2002.Interview with Alex Curran, Sunday People, 13 May 2005 [https://web.archive.org/web/20080731205211/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20050313/ai_n12944334 Online version] Prior to her relationship with Gerrard, Curran was dating businessman Tony Richardson, while Gerrard was dating Jennifer Ellison. At some point in 2002, Curran and Ellison switched lovers; The Guardian wrote, "who stole whom off whom is still the subject of some debate and perhaps Ellison's autobiography".[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1786728,00.html Meet the real footballers' wives], The Guardian, 4 June 2006
Curran and Gerrard married on 16 June 2007, at the Cliveden House luxury hotel in Buckinghamshire.[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_method=full%26objectid=18732839%26siteid=89520-name_page.html Carrick in Wedding Clash], Daily Mirror, 10 March 2007 They have three daughters and a son.{{cite web|last1=Corless|first1=Liam|title="Our family is complete": Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard confirms wife Alex has given birth to their first son|website=Daily Mirror|date=29 April 2017|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-legend-steven-gerrard-son-10320064|access-date=29 April 2017}}
On 11 December 2007, while husband Steven Gerrard was away playing with Liverpool, the couple's home was burgled while she and another female resident were inside. Curran was confronted by four masked robbers who were reportedly there for a £10,000 watch that Curran had bought for Gerrard for Christmas. On the same day she had mentioned the watch in Closer magazine. Gerrard was the sixth Liverpool player to be burgled while away playing football.[https://www.theguardian.com/Football/News_Story/0,,2226584,00.html Masked raiders confront Gerrard's wife in sixth raid on Liverpool players' homes], The Guardian, 13 December 2007
Other work
In 2010 Curran took to designing when she launched the Forever Unique by Alex Gerrard Collection. Her first collection was so successful that she launched a second collection in 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/film-and-tv/alex-gerrard-the-goal-den-girl-of-style-859195|title = Alex Gerrard: The goal-den girl of style launches new collection in Manchester|date = 25 April 2011}}
Curran was revealed as the model for the new 2013 Lipsy VIP Collection.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lipsy.co.uk/blog/1081/party-like-a-lipsy-vip|title = Lipsy London | Women's Clothing & Accessories | Next Official Site}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816105613/http://ifdb.co/models/alex_curran/1225 The Internet Fashion Database]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324093103/http://www.alexcurran.net/ Fan site]
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Category:English female models
Category:British women columnists