Kimberly
Stewart: "Dad Was an Embarrassment"
11/23/07
Model Kimberly Stewart was so embarrassed by the antics of her rocker
father Rod when she was a child, she would pretend they weren't related.
The 28-year-old recalls being humiliated by the Maggie May hit maker
when he picked her up from school wearing the colorful skin-tight costumes
he wore onstage, prompting her classmates to make fun of her.
She says, "He'd turn up at the school gates driving a Lamborghini
and wearing his infamous leopard-skin trousers. Other kids would tease me
and it left me feeling very vulnerable.
"It got to the point where I wouldn't tell anyone my dad was Rod
Stewart. I'd ask him to pick me up down the block so people wouldn't recognize
him. But that never worked. Everyone knew who he was."