Early life

Worthington was born 22 June 1987 to Graham and Sharon Bingle in Cronulla, New South Wales. She has one older brother, Josh Bingle. Worthington attended St Vincent's College at Potts Point before dropping out at 16 to move to Italy. Her father died in May 2008 from liver and pancreatic cancer.

Career

Worthington has been featured on the cover of ELLE, Grazia, Oyster, CLEO and New Idea. Worthington has also appeared in episodes of Home and Away and other shows such as The Celebrity Apprentice Australia and Australia's Next Top Model.

Worthington competed on the Nine Network's celebrity ice dancing show Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice, where she was the last woman to be eliminated, resulting in coming runner-up in the series, and in the channel's ad for the 2006-2007 Ashes series. Nine re-hired Worthington in 2008 as a reporter for a new travel show, Holidays for Sale.

Worthington signed a one-year deal in 2008 with international phone company Vodafone as one of their official ambassadors. Worthington signed a three-year contract (2008-2011) with swimwear brand Speedo.

Since 2009, Worthington has been an Ambassador for Bowel Cancer Australia. On 4 June 2010, Worthington officially launched the 2010, "Love My Family" ad campaign.

Worthington fired manager Max Markson in early May 2010, exclusively announcing it to Grazia magazine in an un-paid interview.

In August 2010, Worthington announced that she had signed with US model agency Elite Models.

Worthington was announced as a contestant in the 2011 series of Dancing With The Stars. The series began airing in May. She was partnered with Carmelo Pizzino. Following her elimination from Dancing With The Stars on 26 June 2011, Worthington told The Kyle and Jackie O Show that she was shocked and upset at having been kicked off the show, given her competitive streak.

Worthington confirmed on 2DayFM's The Kyle and Jackie O Show that she was in the stages of creating a range of sunglasses and co-creating a coffee table beauty book with her best friend and make-up artist Max May. In June 2011, ROC Eyewear launched a campaign featuring Worthington as the face of the brand and Worthington confirmed a capsule collection is under way.

In December 2011, it was announced that Worthington had signed a development deal with Network Ten to star in her own reality television series. Ten commissioned a 10-episode reality television series. The series focuses on both Worthington's personal and professional life. For the series Worthington relocated to an $8 million Bondi apartment in the hope of making the series more appealing for potential overseas TV buyers. The series Being Lara Bingle premiered on 12 June 2012 to over 925,000 viewers, exceeding expectations, but met with mixed reviews from critics.

Worthington later announced that she will focus on developing her own fashion brand with business partner George Moskos (founder of Miranda Kerr's Kora Organics skin care range), since filming of her reality television series wrapped. The new fashion line is reported to be a lingerie/basics line. Worthington stated the line had been picked up by a major Australian retailer and would be available late 2013 and also stated she has become the new face of luxury watch brand Breitling and Australian fashion chain Cotton On. In November 2014, Lara Worthington launched a new tanning range called The Base.

Other ventures

Worthington announced in April 2011 a co-ownership in Growlers restaurant located in Torquay between her and Darryn Lyons. The restaurant was sold in 2013.

In August, 2010 and March, 2011, Worthington co-hosted Australia radio show The Kyle & Jackie O Show.

Personal life

On 10 January 2007, Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph claimed that Worthington (then Bingle) and Australian cricketer Michael Clarke were an item. On 25 March 2008 it was announced that the pair were engaged after Clarke proposed in New York. Clarke's public relations firm announced the ending of the engagement on 12 March 2010.

On 18 October 2013, it was confirmed that Bingle was in a relationship with fellow Australian and actor Sam Worthington. The couple married in 2014 and welcomed a son, Rocket Zot in 2015.

Worthington announced in 2014 that she was re-locating from Sydney to New York City. On 23 February 2014, Bingle's boyfriend Sam Worthington was arrested in New York City for assault, after punching a paparazzo named Sheng Li for kicking Bingle in the shin. Worthington was released on a desk appearance ticket and is due back in court on February 26. Li was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment, assault and harassment.

She has cited American actress and former model Chloë Sevigny as one of her fashion icons and inspirations.

Legal problems

In May 2006, Worthington took legal action against EMAP Australia, who allegedly published photographs of the model without her permission in the 27 March 2006 issue of Australian men's magazine Zoo Weekly. Bingle claimed defamation by the manner in which the magazine published the photos.

On 2 March 2010, Worthington started proceedings to sue Brendan Fevola for breach of privacy, defamation and misuse of her image for the release of a nude photo in Woman's Day published on 1 March 2010. On 4 March 2010 it emerged that Worthington and her agent Max Markson had sold her story relating to this nude photo to the same magazine which had published the controversial photo, Woman's Day, for nearly A$200,000. This raised considerable controversy in that Bingle would discuss for large profit a matter she considered serious enough to sue over and from which she claimed to be hurt.

Whilst driving with a suspended license in Bondi, New South Wales on 14 May 2012, Worthington was involved in a traffic incident with a female motorcyclist, and fled the scene without exchanging details with the injured rider. Appearing in Waverley Court on 18 September 2012, Worthington was fined $3,500 and received a further 12-month driving ban and an 18-month good behaviour bond. She had previously lost her licence because she had committed at least another 6 driving offences in 2012. On the same licence suspension, she was caught driving twice more in October and November 2013, and is now serving a suspended jail sentence for 2 years.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2006	Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice	Herself / Contestant	Sixth contestant eliminated
2008	Getaway	Herself / Guest reporter	One episode
2008	Holidays for Sale	Herself / Reporter
2011	Dancing With The Stars	Herself / Contestant	Seventh contestant eliminated
2011	The Celebrity Apprentice Australia	Herself / Special guest	Challenge 7
2011	Australia's Next Top Model	Herself / Special guest	Season 7; episode 11
2012	The Project	Herself / Guest	One episode
2012	Being Lara Bingle	Herself	10 episodes

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