Bar Refaeli hopes to get pregnant before her birthday next June.

The 30-year-old model, who got engaged to businessman Adi Ezra, 40, in March after approximately one year of dating, says she plans to start a family soon after their upcoming wedding.

The blonde beauty, who was previously married to Arik Weinstein and dated Leonardo Dicaprio, told the 30th anniversary September issue of Elle magazine: ''I'm getting married, I'm building a house. I'm probably going to get pregnant while I'm 30. I'm becoming a woman at 30.''

Bar previously admitted she is eager to have a lot of children.

She said: ''I think this will be a decade of family...I come from a family of four children. A lot of mums could read this and think, 'Yeah, try having one first'. Hopefully, I'll have a big family, but I'll take it one by one.''

The couple, who were introduced by mutual friends, are set to tie the knot in Haira, northern Israel next month, after the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

But she recently insisted: ''[We want a] very simple wedding: not a lot of people, not in a big place, maybe outdoors, barefoot ...''