Little Pixie Geldof (born 17 September 1990) is an English-born model and singer. She is the third daughter of Irish musician

Bob Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (; born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part ...

and

Paula Yates Paula Elizabeth Yates (24 April 1959 – 17 September 2000) was a Welsh television presenter and writer. Yates is best known for her work on two television programmes, '' The Tube'' and ''The Big Breakfast''. She was subjected to intense media ...

Early life

Geldof is the third daughter of Irish musician

and

.Pixie Geldof is a Tatler cover girl
''

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'', 3 June 2008Sting's kds join Geldof girls at geisha launch
, '' Hello!'', 12 January 2006 ("is the youngest of Sir Bob's three daughters by the late TV presenter Paula Yates...") She is also the biological granddaughter of Hughie Green. Pixie had two sisters, Fifi Trixibelle Geldof (born 1983) and Peaches Geldof (1989–2014), and has a half-sister, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof (born 1996), from her mother's relationship with

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frontman

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. Her great-grandmother was Jewish.

Career

Modelling

Her first magazine cover modelling appearance was for ''

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'' in 2008.Pixie Geldof is Covergirl for Italian ''Vogue''
''The Daily Telegraph'', 9 February 2009 She has also been the face of advertising campaigns for

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, Diesel, Henry Holland, Razzle,

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, Loewe and

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, as well as modelling for Vivienne Westwood, Luella and

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. She modelled for

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in 2010.

Music

Geldof is the lead singer of the band Violet, who released their first single in May 2012. She was scheduled to DJ at the 2014

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in April but cancelled it due to the death of her sister. She released her first album ''I'm Yours'' in November 2016. It was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by

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Activism

Geldof has a passion for marine wildlife, especially sharks. She is an advocate for

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and was one of the ambassadors for the #PassOnPlastic campaign against the pollution of water by single use plastic led by Project Zero and Sky Ocean Rescue. She also advocates against

animal testing Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and ''in vivo'' testing, is the use of animals, as model organisms, in experiments that seek answers to scientific and medical questions. This approach can be contrasted ...

in the

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. In October 2018, she was part of a delegation that went to the United Nations in New York City to present a petition launched by The Body Shop to end cosmetic animal testing worldwide.

Personal life

As of February 2013, Geldof lived in

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with George Barnett, drummer of These New Puritans. The couple married in June 2017 in

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. They have one child, a daughter born in 2021. Geldof is a

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and advocates against animal testing.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Geldof, Pixie 1990 births Living people People educated at Alleyn's School English female models English socialites English people of Irish descent English people of Scottish descent English people of German-Jewish descent English people of Belgian descent People from Upper Clapton Models from the London Borough of Hackney Singers from the London Borough of Hackney 21st-century English women singers 21st-century English singers