Pash leads to awk-Ward moment for supermodel
Wednesday December 12, 2007
She's the face of a Calvin Klein perfume, a Vogue 'It Girl' and one of the world's top 10-earning supermodels who is at home on stage and in the studio — but when it comes to kissing, Gemma Ward gets all shy.
The 20-year-old Australian model is said to have been overcome with a bout of bashfulness when she had to pucker up for her first on-screen kiss in a new film.
Ward plays school girl Jackie Ward in the flick called The Black Balloon, due out next year.
The role required her to cosy up to Home and Away star Rhys Wakefield for the coming-of-age drama which follows the turbulent journey of young love.
But despite the awkward moment, Ward is said to be catching up with film director Ellis Down to discuss other film prospects when she heads home this week for holidays.
And she may not have to wait long.
The Perth-born model has already starred in a yet-to-be-released film called The Strangers, a horror flick opposite Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman.
And to confirm her big-screen appeal, a source recently told the New York Post that hunk Heath Ledger was stalking Ward and showing up at the bars and parties she attended.
"He somehow finds out where she is going to be and then miraculously shows up to the parties or bars where she is," the spy told Page Six.
At only sixteen Ward became the youngest ever girl ever to be listed as one of the Vogue 'It Girls'.
She is also the first face since Kate Moss to pitch Calvin Klein's perfume 'Obsession Night for Men'.
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