Personal Life
Cartwright was born in Sydney on 23 July 1983 the youngest child of Darrel and Michelle Cartwright. She has an older brother Shaun and older sister Kristy. After a four year relationship with fellow Home and Away co-star Beau Brady, Cartwright and Brady were briefly engaged.
Soon after the end of her engagement she began a relationship with tennis player Lleyton Hewitt, himself fresh from a near five year relationship and ten month engagement to fellow tennis player, Kim Clijsters. After six weeks of dating, Hewitt proposed following the Australian Open Final. On 5 May 2005, the couple announced they were expecting their first child. The pair married on 21 July 2005; the wedding was at the Sydney Opera House, and their reception took place at Taronga Zoo. The event attracted much media attention, with Bec and Lleyton selling exclusive coverage of the day to magazine 'New Idea'. Fellow actresses and friends Ada Nicodemou and Kate Ritchie were bridesmaids.
On 29 November 2005, she gave birth to daughter, Mia Rebecca Hewitt, at Sydney's North Shore Private Hospital. Before her birth a lucrative contract was made with women's magazine 'Woman's Day' involving regular diaries from Bec and exclusive photos and interviews of the family for the first two years of Mia's life. The couple attracted much criticism for the observation that they had 'sold' their daughter to the highest bidder. On 11 December 2008, Hewitt gave birth to a baby boy whom the couple named Cruz Lleyton Hewitt. Their third child, a daughter named Ava Sydney Hewitt, was born on 19 October 2010 . Her name was announced via a text message subscription service for the cost of $2, a move that attracted much criticism of Bec and Lleyton. Both pregnancy announcements and births were covered in exclusive stories by 'OK Magazine'. In February 2009, after revelations about Hewitt's previously unknown offshore income and bank accounts were revealed during a legal battle with his former management company, Octagon Sports Marketing, the couple relocated to a $3.8 million home at the Old Fort Bay estate in Nassau, Bahamas.
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