Rebecca Loos is a well-known Dutch ex-glamour model and media personality who rose to fame in the early 2000s.
She gained public recognition by claiming to have had a romantic relationship with married footballer David Beckham while working as his personal assistant.
The allegations led to Loos appearing on several reality television series, magazine covers, and in other media for a few years thereafter.
Rebecca Loos Biography
Early life and education
Rebecca Loos was born in Madrid, Spain, but holds Dutch citizenship.
Her father, Leonard Loos Bartholdi, was a Dutch diplomat, and her mother, Elizabeth Loos, is originally from Surrey, England.
Loos was privately educated at Runnymede College in Madrid.
She is a second cousin of Piers Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper when Loos initially gained media attention.
Career
Rebecca became the personal assistant to former England national football team captain David Beckham when he transferred to Real Madrid in July 2003.
Her employment was terminated a few months later and Loos subsequently gave an interview to the British tabloid newspaper News of the World in April 2004, alleging that she and Beckham had conducted a four-month affair whilst he was married to his wife Victoria.
The claims were never corroborated and were dismissed by Beckham as “ludicrous”, although he did not mount a legal challenge to the story.
Shortly after the newspaper coverage of her alleged affair with Beckham, Loos commenced a career as a media personality. In 2004, she briefly appeared as a hostess on the Dutch TV programme Shownieuws.
In October 2004, Loos made a controversial appearance on the reality television programme The Farm, a Channel 5 version of the Raidió Teilifís Éireann show Celebrity Farm.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals accused producers of pandering to a “morbid and sordid fascination with farm animals”, while People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Mediawatch-uk demanded the show be taken off the air.
In 2005, Rebecca Loose appeared on the ITV network reality television show Celebrity Love Island.
The same year, Loos took part in a staged wedding ceremony with American fashion model Jenny Shimizu for the television programme Power Lesbian UK to protest against America’s laws on same-sex marriage.
It was broadcast in the United States as Power Lesbians on Logo TV. The two had a relationship for a period thereafter. Loos has stated that she is bis3xual and “has been ever since was a teenager.”
Rebecca Loose played for the England Women’s football team in a Sky TV charity event in 2006.
In April that same year, she also ran the London Marathon, and raised more than £7,000 in sponsorship for the British Red Cross. Later, in May, Loos appeared on The X Factor: Battle of the Stars alongside James Hewitt, in which she famously received a negative reception from judge Sharon Osbourne.
Rebecca Loose was a contestant on the Spanish version of Survivor in 2007, in which she came third. In November of that year, she appeared in Sky TV’s Cirque de Celebrite in which she was one of two new contestants introduced midway through the series.
In 2008, Loos was a guest on The Podge and Rodge Show. In September, she had a part in a Dutch feature film called Mijn vader is een Detective (English: My father is a detective). In October, she took part in the Dutch version of 71 Degrees North (71 Graden Noord).
Loos has been featured on the covers of Playboy, FHM, Nuts, Zoo Weekly and other men’s magazines and lad mags.
About Rebecca Loos Husband
Who is Rebecca Loos married to
Rebecca Loos is married to Sven Christjar Skaiaa.
Who is Sven Christjar Skaiaa?
Sven is a doctor from Norway and on his LinkedIn, he is a dedicated physician with the Royal Norwegian Air Force, serving as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and Search and Rescue (SAR) specialist since 2016.
When did Rebecca Loos and Sven Christjar Skaiaa get married?
The pair are said to have met on the set of Dutch TV show 71 Graden Noord in 2008. Rebecca became pregnant in 2009 and the couple moved to Norway and were married in 2012.
Rebecca has told MailOnline that the family has seen her embrace domestic bliss and she and Sven are a “team”, saying:
“I love my home, keeping it clean, cooking for my boys, packing the lunchboxes – that is my territory. If my husband dares to interfere I’m like, ‘hands off!’ The lawn, snow-ploughing and barn is all his.
“I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband, to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst. All that has changed. I feel like I’ve grown up. Now we are a team.”
Rebecca Loos Children
The couple now have two sons Magnus, 13 and Liam, ten.
Rebecca Loos admits that the family know about Rebecca’s past, saying:
“I’m very open about everything. They know Mummy’s been a naked model and been on the cover of Playboy… They know their mummy has a naughty side!”
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