Rachel Williams (born April 29, 1967) is an American model, TV presenter, and landscape designer.
Williams is the daughter of architect Tod Williams and the late Patricia Agnes Jones. Her parents divorced when she was five years old. After her mother's remarriage in the late 1970s, Williams and her younger brother moved with her mother and new stepfather to Woodstock, New York. After graduating from high school, Williams enrolled at Mills College. After a year, she transferred to Bard College where she majored in art history.
In November 1985, Williams was discovered by a Click Model Management employee while visiting her father's studio. On the advice of the employee, Williams met with Click's owner Frances Grill. Grill deemed Williams too heavy to model but signed her to a conditional, one-year contract after Williams promised to lose weight. Williams returned to school and, over the course of a year, lost twenty pounds. She returned to Click in October 1986, and renewed her contract.