[2] She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar.

She was quickly signed up to Ford Models and immediately embarked on a successful career, landing a Cover Girl cosmetics contract and becoming the spokesperson for the company for several years.

[7] Hunter first appeared on television in 1985 in an advertisement for the New Zealand ice cream brand Tip Top, promoting their "Trumpet" ice-cream.

She has appeared in several independent films, including 1999's A Walk in the Park and 2000's Two Shades of Blue, an erotic thriller with Marlee Matlin.

She also starred in Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (2008), The Perfect Assistant (2008),[13] the science fiction TV movies Piranhaconda[14] (2011) and Swamp Volcano, aka Miami Magma (2012).

[17] At the age of 21, Hunter met rock star Rod Stewart, 24 years her senior, in a Los Angeles nightclub.

[19] She had a year-long relationship with Canadian NHL ice hockey player Sean Avery in 2004,[citation needed] and in 2006 began a three-year relationship with Jarret Stoll, 13 years her junior, also a Canadian NHL player who played for, and won the Stanley Cup with, the Los Angeles Kings.