Hottest Pictures Of Helena Christensen. Helena Christensen is a Danish supermodel, best known for her break as a Victoria’s Secret Angel. She is very well known in the modeling industry and has been Miss Denmark in 1986. Later, she competed in Miss Universe that same year.
She moved to Paris in order to pursue modeling as a career. After her Victoria’s Secret campaign, Helena appeared on covers and billboards in Times Square and worldwide. She was also a spokeswoman for Revlon and appeared in the music video Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.
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Helena was on December 25, 1968, in Denmark. Her mother is Peruvian, and her father is Danish. Helena is multilingual. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Danish. According to her, she was bullied at school. However, that experience only shaped her personality in the long run.
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Helena started modeling when she accidentally enrolled for a beauty pageant after mistaking it for a charity fashion show. Nevertheless, she won it at 16. She also won the Miss Denmark crown at 18 and then competed in the Miss Universe pageant that same year. She was on the cover of Vogue magazine in March 1990.
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She also became one of the original VS models to appear along with top models such as Karen Mulder, Tyra Banks, Daniela Pestova, and Stephanie Seymour. Apart from Revlon, she has also campaigned for Hermes, Chanel, Prada, and Versace. Her second campaign was Fashion Target Breast Cancer in 2005 to promote awareness about breast cancer.
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After her brief hiatus from modeling, Helena opened a photography gallery and named it A Quiet Story. Jim Cook curated it. Her second photography gallery, Far From Close, was opened to help the educational program called Chernobyl Children’s Project International.
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Helena won the ELLE Style Icon award in 2005. After dating Michael Hutchence and Norman Reedus, she settled down in a long term relationship with the Interpol frontman, Paul Banks. Helena also had a son with Norman Reedus.