Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's UK move has been a 'grounding experience' after living in Los Angeles

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley believes moving back to the UK has been a "grounding experience" after living in Los Angeles.

The 37-year-old model/actress and her movie star partner Jason Statham, 57, spent many years in California before moving back to their home country in 2020 with Rosie revealing the couple wanted their two children - Jack, seven, and Bella, two - to grow up away from the spotlight.

She told the Telegraph newspaper: "Living back in the UK has been a really grounding experience for us. The fact that we can walk out of our front door and go and get a coffee and a loaf of bread [without paparazzi intrusion].

"We’d leave our home in LA and there’d be five cars following us down the block to the gym. Both Jason and I felt like it was really important for our children to not be impacted by our line of work.

"We wanted our kids to have a childhood away from cameras as much as we could."

She went on to reveal the couple have promised not to show their children's faces on social media or take them to any red carpet events - because she wants them to be able to choose whether they are in the public eye or not.

Rosie explained: "We made a rule that we wouldn’t share their faces on social media, and we’re not going to walk down the red carpet with them.

"Because I’ve seen that. I’ve seen children of celebrities whose parents didn’t give them that choice. It’s Jack’s choice and it’s Bella’s choice, whether they live in the public eye. If they want to, that won’t be a problem. But I just always feared my son turning round to me one day and saying, 'You and Daddy didn’t protect me, I don’t want this'."