Incoming United States ambassador Scott Brown has made a video for New Zealanders, introducing them to his family, his rough upbringing and his family home in Rye, New Hampshire.
Family members include wife Gail, country singer Ayla, vet student Arianna and pooch Gracie.
In the video he talks about the physical violence that was a part of his childhood. He lived in 17 different homes by the time he was aged 18.
Brown, a former Massachusetts Republican senator, is one the first ambassadors in the Donald Trump Administration to be confirmed.
Now aged 57, he was a former male model and posed nude when he won Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's sexiest man" competition.