Alana Stewart

Born Alana Kaye Collins in San Diego, she grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas, and Houston,^[3] before heading to New York to become a model.^[2] She claimed to have grown up in poverty.^[1][2] Collins signed with Ford Models and traveled to Los Angeles for many television and commercial appearances.^[1]

In the early 1970s, she began an acting career.^[2] Her first role was a bit part in the biographical film Evel Knievel, which starred her then-husband, George Hamilton.^[2] She later made guest appearances on television shows such as The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and The Love Boat.^[2]

In 1995, she and ex-husband George Hamilton hosted their own syndicated talk show, George & Alana.^[4] The series was cancelled the following year.^[5]

In 2003, Stewart was a contestant in the ABC reality series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!^[6]

From 2006 to 2009, Stewart filmed and produced an Emmy-nominated 90-minute documentary, "Farrah's Story", chronicling her friend and fellow model Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer.^[7]

In 2012, she guest-starred in an episode of the Caruso|Portier web series DeVanity as Claudia Muller, the mother of Lara Muller DeVanity and Dr. Portia Muller Roth.^[8]

In 2014, Stewart, who is a Republican, endorsed her friend, Independent candidate Marianne Williamson, for U.S. Congress in California's 33rd district.^[9]

Stewart is a Trump supporter, having voted for him in 2016 and 2020.^[10][11] She opposes restrictions on gun ownership, aside from "stringent background checks".^[12] Post-divorce, she has lived alone and keeps her gun on her bedside table.^[12]

Stewart was a signatory of the bipartisan letter calling for Walmart to allow sales of the DVD and Blu-ray discs of the 2019 political documentary No Safe Spaces.^[13] After Fox News called the 2020 presidential election in Arizona for Joe Biden, she was among the list of conservatives who ceased supporting the news channel and switched to Newsmax.^[11]

She married actor George Hamilton in 1972. They had one child, a son named Ashley Hamilton. The couple divorced in 1975.^[5]

In 1979, she married singer Rod Stewart. The couple had two children, Kimberly, and Sean. They divorced in 1984, but she retained his surname.^[14][15]

In the early 1990s, Stewart discovered she had the Epstein-Barr virus after suffering from symptoms caused by the virus for two decades.^[16] In 1994, she began speaking out about her illness and revealed that she removed her breast implants because she felt they contributed to her illness.^[4]

Stewart was a close friend of Farrah Fawcett, who died in 2009 after a long battle with cancer,^[17] and as of 2018^[update] she was the President/CEO of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation.^[18] Her 2009 New York Times best seller My Journey with Farrah: A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship is dedicated to her journey with Fawcett.^[1]

In 2012, she published a book titled Rearview Mirror: A Memoir, detailing her upbringing, her early career as a model, her marriages and subsequent divorces, and the deaths of her mother and Fawcett.^[1][2]