{"id":714447,"date":"2026-06-04T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714447\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:12:13","slug":"nicole-trunfio-wa-raised-supermodel-returns-home-to-merredin-with-kids-to-ride-dirt-bikes-and-make-sausages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714447\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Trunfio: WA-raised supermodel returns home to Merredin with kids to ride dirt bikes and make sausages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">From her Texas ranch to the Wheatbelt, WA-raised supermodel Nicole Trunfio has lauded her return home to Merredin with her children for a sacred family tradition she holds dearer than Christmas or Easter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 40-year-old mother, podcaster, and entrepreneur lives in the southern US state with American musician and husband Gary Clark Jr, raising three kids Zion, Gia, and Ella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Proving she\u2019s never lost the passion for getting her hands dirty, and looking good doing it, Trunfio posted several images on social media depicting herself riding a dirt bike, and helping her children make Italian-style sausages from scratch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting years for this trip, to bring my babies home to Australia and introduce my children to a family tradition that began long before I was born,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThis is sausage weekend, with my gigantic Italian family. Immigrants that pride themselves for being hardworking, self made tradesmen, who look you in the eye when they shake your hand, do what they say they\u2019re going to do, and mean it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">As one of WA\u2019s most successful modelling exports, boasting campaigns with Dior and Chanel, the model made waves on the scene at 16 when she won the now-defunct Search For A Supermodel reality show in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/10487a13ae1be00c2a4605cd8811100864fae1e5.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Trunfio on family holiday in Merredin, WA. Picture: Unknown\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconNicole Trunfio on family holiday in Merredin, WA. Unknown Credit: Unknown\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She is also the founder of of maternity brand Bumpsuit, a label new mother Hailey Bieber considers a pregnancy must-have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The West Aussie told STM in late 2025 she feels her high-achieving career has been a blur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cIt feels like it happened in the blink of an eye,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI was holding on to the edge of my seat, trying to do the best that I could and not mess anything up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From her Texas ranch to the Wheatbelt, WA-raised supermodel Nicole Trunfio has lauded her return home to Merredin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,1625],"class_list":["post-714447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}