Hunter’s career started at the age of 17 when for the first time she posed as a Sports Illustrated model in 1989. She appeared on the cover pages of big magazines such as Cosmopolitan. Rachel appeared nude for the Playboy magazine in 2004. She was declared the face and the body of Ultimo, a Scottish lingerie house. In 2006 Rachel gave a small appearance as a sexy soccer mom in Dennis Dugan’s The Benchwarmers. Prior to this in 2003 Hunter had played a sultry, bikni-clad mother in the music video for the Fountains of Wayne’s 2003 song “Stacy’s Mom”.