Helena Christensen Biography
Helena Christensen is a Danish model and photographer born on 25th December 1968. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. She has also served as a creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations among other charities.
Helena Christensen Age & Height
Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 25 December 1968. She is currently 49 years old with a height of 1.78 m.
Helena Christensen Net worth
The Danish supermodel has an estimated net worth of $8 Million.
Helena Christensen Family
Christensen is the eldest of two daughters of a Danish father, Flemming Christensen and a Peruvian mother, Elsa Christensen. She has a sister by the name Anita Christensen.
In an interview, Helena revealed that her family had ‘total togetherness’ and that she was shy at her younger years. She further says that it’s down to her mum that she became the more confident woman she is today after she sent her to acting classes to ‘learn how to express myself more’. From then on, she did child modelling and was crowned Miss Denmark as a teenager before becoming one of the fashion world darlings.
Helena Christensen’s PicturesHelena Christensen Modeling Career
Helena won the Miss Universe Denmark crown in 1986, and she subsequently represented Denmark in the Miss Universe 1986 pageant. She also participated in the Look of the Year 1987 competition, where she was a finalist.
Over the years, Christensen has carried on her modeling work and has graced covers of several magazines. Among them, Vogue Italia (2016), Portuguese Vogue (2016), British Tatler (2018), and French Elle (2018). She is signed to ZZO Management in Paris, D Management in Milan, Unsigned Management in London and 1/One Management in New York City. In 2019, she walked for Dolce & Gabanna in their spring/summer advertisement campaign with Carla Bruni, Eva Herzigova and Marpessa Hennink.
Helena Christensen Photography
Christensen is also an accomplished photographer, whose work has appeared in Nylon, Marie Claire, and ELLE. Vogue Magazine once quoted her as saying, “I’ve been taking photographs longer than I’ve been modeling!” Her exhibition “A Quiet Story,” curated by Jim Cook, premiered at the Locus Gallery in Rotterdam, 2006, and HotelArena in Amsterdam, 2007.
Her exhibition “Far From, Close” appeared at Dactyl Foundation in 2008–09, to benefit International Center of Photography educational programs and Chernobyl Children’s Project International.
She worked on a photography series: Libery Ross, Liv Tyler, and The Pursuit of Grace, in 2014. In 2016, she was announced as the “Global Explorer” for the Luxury Collection Hotels and Resorts. Her major project for the Company was documenting a trip from the seaside town of Paracas to the colonial city of Cusco and the lush sacred valley.
For more on the supermodel’s photography work, head on to the site TOMORROW MANAGEMENT.
Helena Christensen Versace
The model has been a favourite of the Versace shows since the nineties. The Danish beauty looked showstopping in a golden gown in 2017 as she made her ’emotional’ return to the Italian fashion house’s runway in tribute to the late Gianni Versace.
Among the other original Nineties supermodels, Christensen joined Donatella Versace at the Versace Milan Fashion Week show on 22 September 2017, to mark the 20th anniversary of her brother’s murder. The models were dressed in gold, floor-length gowns and walked the runway with Donatella to the late George Michael’s Freedom. A voice announced “Gianni, this is for you,” as a curtain was drawn back to reveal the supermodels: Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christensen, and Carla Bruni.
Gianni Versace, who founded the fashion house in 1978 and is widely credited with cementing the concept of a supermodel, was shot dead on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion in 1997. The gunman Andrew Cunanan took his own life in the days following, after killing five people including the fashion designer. After her brother’s sudden death, Donatella took over his duties at the fashion empire.
Helena Christensen Children – Son
Christensen’s son is called Mingus Lucien Reedus and was born on 13 October 1999 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mingus made his runway debut at the New York Fashion Week in September 2017 for Clavin Klein. Christensen said it was ‘awesome’ to see her son down the catwalk but also confessed how ‘bizarre’ it was to watch her offspring make his first foray into the fashion world.
Helena Christensen Husband – Boyfriend
Christensen dated, and lived with, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence on and off in France and Denmark for a period of five years in the early 1990s (from 1991 to 1995). She then got into a relationship with actor Norman Reedus for five years, between 1998 and 2003. Reedus is the father of Christensen’s son, Mingus Lucien Reedus. Reedus and Christensen separated in 2003. She then dated Interpol singer Paul Banks from 2008 till their separation in 2015.
Helena Christensen Instagram
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Helena Christensen Wicked game
In 1991, she starred in the music video for Chris Isaak’s song “Wicked Game.” The music video was later featured MTV’s “Sexiest Video of All-Time”, was voted at number 4 on VH1’s “50 Sexiest Video Moments” and number 13 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Videos”.
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