Kelly Emberg

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Kelly Emberg (born 1959 in Texas), is a former model, best known for her relationship with rock star Rod Stewart.

Emberg was at the top of her career when she began dating Stewart in 1983, a highly successful all-American blonde fashion model who appeared in hundreds of print layouts including the Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, Calvin Klein and Armani in the Eighties.

Daughter Ruby was born in 1985, with Stewart ordering their Bel Air mansion filled with pink roses, the new mum's favourite blooms. By 1990, there were rumours the relationship was under strain due to Rod's hesitation over walking down the aisle. By summer of that year, the celebrity couple had split up. Stewart insisted it was Emberg's decision to break off the relationship: "She had another geezer". Emberg filled a $25-million palimony suit in early 1991, which was settled – for an undisclosed amount in 1993^[1].

Kelly is now an interior designer and owns a company called The Cotton Box, with a shop on Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles. Her biggest client is her ex-husband, where she designed the guest house on his Los Angeles estate in which his children by Alana Hamilton, Kimberly and Sean live along with Ruby^[2].

Emberg has a further two sons, Tyler, seven, and Cole, four by Gavin Brodin, who co-owns The Cotton Box.

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"Kelly allows me the freedom to do what I want. That doesn't mean I stay out all night and womanise, she just allows me more space" - Rod Stewart on Kelly, 1988