Helena Christensen (born December 25, 1968 in Copenhagen,
Denmark) is a supermodel.

Her father is Danish and mother is Peruvian.
She stepped into the limelight in 1986 by claiming the title
of Miss Denmark at age eighteen, and representing her country
at the Miss Universe pageant. This provided an invaluable
springboard to launch herself as an international model.
She left her home soon afterwards to pursue modeling in Paris.

Christensen is considered to be one of the more prominent
supermodels of the 1990s. 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.

In 1991, she starred in the music video for ChrisIsaak'ssong
"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"

Personal life


Christensen lived with the late singer of INXS, Michael
Hutchence, and has been romantically linked to Leonardo DiCaprio
and Billy Corgan. She has one child, son Mingus Luchien Reedus
born October 22, 1999 with former model Norman Reedus who she
married in 1998. Norman and Helena split in 2003, and divorced
in 2004.

Helena has claimed on several occasions to be a cheese addict,
admitting that "There've been times when I've bought a whole
pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one
go... I think it's incredibly sensual." British Cheese Board

Christensen declares that: "Whenever my head is like a maze,
I turn to the easy things in life, the things that mean the
most to me: Sex and cheese. These things are connected. Truth
be told, I love all cheese: French cheese, Italian cheese, even
British cheese, but Danish cheese is the greatest. I get my best
nightmares after I eat Danish cheese. Actually I've seriously
thought about getting a cheese tattoo. A nice Edam on my
shoulder, maybe." Patrick Kielty Almost Live and GQ Magazine

In June 2006, Christensen admitted to smoking cannabis.
She said: "I wouldn?t say no if somebody passed me a joint.
" She claimed that models are attracted to the apparent glamour
of Class A narcotics, but she didn't use them, telling Britain's
Grazia magazine: "It was never a problem for me. I was brought
up with a lot of discipline so I wasn?t attracted to it. But
there were a lot of young, beautiful girls on the party scene,
with a lot of drugs around. I?m not a saint, but drugs were
never my thing."

She drives a Morris Minor car at home in Monaco, and also has
apartments in Copenhagen and Manhattan.