Helena Christensen (born December 25, 1968 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a fashion model or Supermodel. Her father is Danish and mother is Peruvian.
She stepped into the limelight in 1986 by claiming the title of Miss Denmark, allowing her to represent her country at the Miss Universe pageant. This provided an invaluable springboard to launch herself as an international model. She left her home to pursue modeling in Paris at the age of eighteen.
In 1991, she starred in the music video for Chris Isaak's song "Wicked Game". In the video, she is depicted as Isaak's lover. Christensen is topless for much of the video, though her nudity is relatively concealed with clever camera angles. It was decided that full frontal nudity would not be suitable for mainstream release. Viewers still reacted to Christensen's sexually suggestive performance, and the video was later featured on MTV's 'Sexiest Video of All-Time'.
Christensen is often considered to be one of the more popular supermodels of the 1990's. She has appeared on a slew on magazine covers and fashion campaigns. She was in the Victoria's Secret catalog and in their television commercials.
She has been romantically linked to the late singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, Leonardo DiCaprio and Billy Corgan. She has one child, son Mingus Luchien Reedus born October 22, 1999 with former model Norman Reedus. Norman and Helena split in 2003.
Helena co-founded Nylon (magazine) and is the creative director.
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