Helena Christensen Biography
Helena Christensen is a model and photographer from Denmark. She was a Victoria’s Secret Angel, fashion designer, and beauty queen. Christensen also co-founded and was the first creative director of Nylon magazine.
How old is Helena Christensen?- Age
She is 54 years old as of December 2022. Helena was born on 25 December 1968 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Helena Christensen Height- Weight
She stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and Weighs, 64 kg (141 lbs).
Helena Christensen Family- Mother
Helena was born to a Danish father and a Peruvian mother. She has a sister Anita Christensen.
Helena Christensen Partner – Husband
In the early 1990s, Christensen dated and lived with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence on and off in France and Denmark for five years. She was married to actor Norman Reedus for five years and they had a son in October 1999. In 2003, Reedus and Christensen divorced. She later dated Paul Banks of Interpol for seven years.
Helena Christensen Career
In 1983, participated in a beauty pageant, thinking it was a charity fashion show. She won it when she was 16 years old. In 1986, at the age of 18, she has crowned Miss Denmark. This compelled her to compete in the ‘Miss Universe pageant, which was held in Panama the same year. She appeared on the cover of the British edition of ‘Vogue’ magazine in March 1990. This would be the first of six cover appearances. She was one of the original ‘Victoria’s Secret Angels,’ along with Tyra Banks, Stephanie Seymour, Karen Mulder, and Daniela Pestova. Throughout the 1990s, she worked with this company in print, commercials, and on the catwalk.
She co-starred in Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” music video in 1991. The video was a success, ranking fourth on MTV’s ‘Sexiest Video of All-Time’ and thirteenth on VH1’s ‘100 Greatest Videos’. She became the spokesmodel for ‘Revlon’ and their makeup brand a year later, in 1992. During the early to mid-1990s, she worked on campaigns for Prada, Hermes, Versace, Chanel, and other high fashion labels. In 1999, Marvin Scott Jarrett founded ‘Nylon’ magazine and hired Christensen as creative director. Her photographs were published in the magazine. In 2005, she launched the second ‘Fashion Target Breast Cancer’ campaign to raise breast cancer awareness.
She took a brief break from modeling in 2006 to pursue a career behind the camera. Jim Cook curated her first photography gallery, ‘A Quiet Story,’ which opened in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Christensen and her longtime friend Leif Sigersen founded Christensen &Sigersen in 2008. They had previously owned and operated a store in the West Village called ‘Butik,’ and were successful business partners. They started designing vintage-inspired clothes for the new label and selling them in Denmark. In 2008-2009, she opened her second photography gallery, ‘Far From, Close,’ to benefit the educational program ‘Chernobyl Children’s Project International.’ In an interview with ‘The Sunday Times,’
Helena Christensen’s Net Worth
Helena has an estimated net worth of 25 million dollars.