Biography
Helena Kristensen is a Danish fashion model and an actress, which Janni Versace considered the owner of the most beautiful feet in the world. It is admired by her and other stars of the fashion industry: Karl Lagerfeld appreciated the rare type of the shape of Helena, and John Galliano argued that she did not simply demonstrate clothes, and fills the images with life and inner fire. Her biography is a story of fast success, which has contributed not only to bright appearance, but also hard work.
Helena Kristensen was born in Copenhagen on December 25, 1968. Her father by nationality was a Dane, and the mother Peruvian, which predetermined the unusual appearance of the girl. As a child, she was fond of photography and music, and the first steps in the model business had already done for 6 years.
Fashion and creativity
Glory came to Helen at 18, when she became the winner of the beauty contest "Miss Denmark". This gave her the right to submit his country to Miss Universe. The Supreme Title did not receive a girl in the end, but attracted attention and gained valuable experience with a multinational audience.
Returning from the contest, Helena decided to move to Paris. The start of her brilliant career was a successful photo session for Elle magazine, after which there were proposals on new shoots from all sides. Kristensen appeared on the cover of Vogue (Peter Lindsberg took her) and entered into favorable contracts with leading designers.
Helena replaced the place of residence and settled in New York. Loud success and recognition allowed her to choose the most interesting jobs among dozens of work. The public knows her, first of all, as an angel Victoria's Secret - the model constantly appeared in new directories and starred in the ads of underwear.
Website Models.com mentioned her name in the category "Industry Icons", and the media called it one of the best models of the 90s. In 1994, Helena took part in the filming of the famous Pirelli calendar - the release shot american photographer coat of arms Ritz.
5 years later, Kristensen took the post of artistic director of Nylon magazine and released his own clothing line, which was sold in New York boutiques. When Helen was asked if she believed her outfits comfortable, the girl replied that she didn't care about them, she was not worried about anyone, except for himself. The bold quote from the interview for a long time was remembered to journalists and colleagues.
In the fashionable industry, Helena became famous for courage: she was not afraid to participate in scandalous projects and did not hesitate to nude. Once her piquant advertising photo, on which the girl's body only slightly covered the fig leaf, placed on a giant billboard directly on the Times Square.
Kristensen did not leave children's vote. At its account, dozens of personal exhibitions arranged with charitable goals, and the pictures made it regularly appeared in Marie Claire and Ellle magazines.
In 1991, Kristensen fell to Casting Krisa Aizek's casting on the song Wicked Game and successfully passed it. She got the role of fatal beauty, who broke the heart of the main character. The shooting took place on the Hawaiian beach and included very frank scenes that, however, did not confuse Helen at all.
As a result, the clip was named after MTV television channel one of the sexiest videos of all time, and for Kristensen he became the beginning on the big screen. In total, her filmography amounted to a little more than a dozen films, mostly short.
Personal life
Hobbies of beauty Helena invariably attracted the attention of the media, especially since her personal life was always stormy. The most famous novel was the Union with Michael Hutchins, the soloist of the Inxs group. The couple lasted together for 5 years, after which it broke up, calling the reason for the cooling of the senses. Later it became known about Cristensen's relations with Leonardo Di Caprio, he was changed by Billy Kogan, but these novels were short-term.
The next choice was the American actor Norman Ridus, from whom Helena on October 13, 1999 gave birth to his only child - Son named Mingus Lucien. With Ridus, she also broke up after 5 years of russia, and without making marriage.
None of the numerous fans of Kristensen became her husband. In an interview with Helena, he admitted that he was simply not able to get along with a man under one roof, so she only met with all chosen.
"My life is solid moving, therefore everything happened," the model explained. "I used to having my space and my belongings."
At one time, Helena declared that she wanted still children, but did not meet that he would want to give birth.
The model supports a long-time friendship with colleagues in the shop - Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni and Eve Gersigov. In his youth, Helena did not bother with extinguishing training, limited to basic exercises, until she decided that he would like to become stronger - since then in her life, regular boxing training appeared in her life. Christensen is also fond of ballet and running.
Helena Kristensen now
In 2018, 49-year-old Helena starred in a new photo session, recreated by a rare series of pictures for the InStyle magazine.
Then she showed swimsuits, including the original metal model Thierry Mugle (this picture was decorated with the cover L.A. Style in 1991), and now again appeared before fans in the same images, showing the perfectly preserved accurate figure.
Also, the model recently announced the start of cooperation with Huawei. It all started from the post in the "instagram" advertising a new phone model, later Kristensen starred in the campaign video and became the face of the brand.