Victoria's Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio poses during a recent photo shoot.

The island has about two dozen hotels, most with just a handful of rooms. The largest has fewer than 60. That not only means star treatment but lots of privacy. Here Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are spotted at the start of the year on a boat at docked on St. Barts.

The island has a special feel that draws loyalists back year after year. Beyonce Knowles performed a controversial hour-long show New Year's Eve at a party thrown by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's son. She performed five songs at the Nikki Beach club in front of a crowd that included her husband, Jay-Z, Usher, Microsoft founder Paul Allen and Lindsay Lohan. Here Knowles and Jay-Z are seen during a 2009 New Year's vacation on St. Barts.

Stars also love St. Barts because most of the accommodations are found in the roughly 400 privately owned villas available for rent. Nothing says superexclusive or secluded like such a villa on an already exclusive island. Lindsay Lohan spent the first day of 2010 hanging out on a yacht moored on St. Barts.

Orlando Bloom's lady love, Miranda Kerr, happily splashed around the surf on St. Barts as she took part in a photo shoot for Victoria's Secret at the end of January.

After once again winning the World Series this year, Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter took a relaxing romantic getaway to St. Barts with actress Minka Kelly.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon were spotted at Nikki Beach on St. Barts for New Year's 2009.

Star Jones revealed her expanding figure and her gastric bypass scars while vacationing on St. Barts in December 2008.

If the celebrities vacation on St. Barts, it would of course make sense for Rachel Zoe, the stylist to the stars, to also escape there.