The best professionals often come from a background of irony. A successful young Ford Model, Rose Cole was literally pulled into the nutrition arena as a means to save her own hide.

What most don’t know is that this stunning beauty lived up until her 20′s with hypoglycemia so severe; she’d faint at the drop of a hat. Her career as a fashion model was cut short as a result of an out of control case of psoriasis.

While in school, her addiction to sugar lured her to the candy machine over being on time to class. She binged on bread and chocolate trying to keep her blood sugar up and eventually the vicious cycles of food cravings ignited a depression. Coming from an obese family, no one thought seriously about Rose’s issues and nor did the doctor.

After a fainting episode in a bagel shop, Rose forced her parents to take her to the doctor and instead of checking her hormones or considering what she was putting into her body to cause these reactions, they prescribed, of all things: birth control pills.

“Oddly enough, my mom was a hippy who never allowed us candy or to drink sodas and we grew up eating from her organic garden,” says the tall brunette. “but she didn’t know how to cook. So for dinner we often got a package of Hamburger Helper with a side of an iceberg lettuce salad and one lonely organic tomato slice on top.”

As Rose’s metabolism changed, she began to pack on the pounds, which of course worsened the young models’ mental state and furthered a helpless slip into depression. The effects of her ill health were affecting her very livelihood: “After showing up to a job in Hawaii covered in psoriasis welts that would cost the magazine thousands of dollars to cover in airbrushing,” she painfully admits, “I could see that my modeling days might be over.”

Then the biggest blow of all came from the mouth of her boyfriend who confessed that he was no longer attracted to her. A momentous downward spiral pulled at Rose; it touched every part of her life from the ability to make a living to the emotional capability to have a relationship.

Then, she met someone who opened her mind to a completely new thought pattern that not only healed her body, but became a career vocation.

“I met a naturopath who recommended fumeric acid, which then was the #1 European holistic approach to psoriasis,” Rose explains. “She also took blood panels and hormone tests and gave me a list of foods I was to add and avoid. There were no medicines involved. She insisted that I get off the birth control pills. I figured I couldn’t lose and tried it. ”

Two weeks into her new diet, Rose’s psoriasis cleared completely for the first time in her life. Five pounds slipped off her body without trying. Her brain fog lifted and her confidence soared. The depression began to lift, and the low energy and fatigue she had experienced for so long vanished.

“It didn’t take long for me to realize that this was the first time that I was getting to the root cause of every symptom I was experiencing,” Rose smiles. “I sensed this would become my path in more ways than one.”

Rose’s life took a left turn. Her career catapulted when Ford Models signed her. She landed a gig on the box of Special K cereal and a role in a network TV movie. Though the modeling jobs were now paying the bills, she began to turn her attention to what was healing her and she returned to school first in San Diego and then at the University of Illinois’ nutrition program.

“I had stopped eating wheat completely,” she says. “My face had changed so much, that I had to reshoot my modeling photos. I wanted to soak up as much knowledge as possible and share it with others. There was not one program out there to learn everything needed, so I pursued a myriad of certifications and took wisdom from different places. My mission was to get to the root cause of body reactions.”

Rose then went about becoming a “Certified Natural Health Professional,” a “Certified Nutrition Consultant,” and became certified in blood nutrition at the Institute of Human Individuality. In 2006 she established her own practice, Wellness with Rose.

She then morphed her practice to become a unique virtual business model which allowed her to share her knowledge with more people than she could personally see in a day. She began to write books, create products and speak on her holistic approach to vitality.

Today, Rose is a well known author, speaker and holistic health expert whose work is based on the markers the blood shows as deficient or excessive, both of which she sees as the impetus for disease. Her approach connects common threads of habits, cravings, emotional and physical issues that support what is seen in blood testing.

She uses clinical strength foods and nutrients to help balance her client’s bodies so they can naturally come back to balance. “This clinical testing approach is the best way to recognize imbalances and customize healing approaches. “The blood never lies”, she adds.

Rose lives alongside the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California. She has devoted her life full time to advising clients all over the world on how to achieve optimum vibrancy including luminaries such as Jesse Jackson and international tennis pro, Mark Philippoussis.

Though she hopes her clients will always do the right thing for themselves, she herself has her own weak moments and a penchant for dark chocolate. “I have an accountability device that keeps me on track though,” she coyly smiles.

“When I have an intense craving for something, I always ask myself two questions, ‘Is this for my highest good?’ and ‘How will it make me feel?’ I always trust the first answer that comes to me. Sometimes, eating the chocolate is the best thing for that moment.”