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Shlebryugge
Name this Scandinavian beauty may seem unfamiliar, but certainly in terms of the elegant lady you probably know her daughter - Uma Thurman. Nena von Shlebryugge was very famous model in the '60s, and her pretty face often appeared in the magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
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But back to the very beginning of its history. In 1941, in Mexico City in a family Swede Birgit Holmquist and German aristocrat Colonel Baron Friedrich Carl von Shlebryugge daughter, Brigitte Caroline, or Nena. His marvelous beauty girl inherited from the mother, who in his youth had time to visit artist's model of the artist Axel Ebbe. His work, Famntaget (Hugs) still meets the Swedish ships in port city Smigehyuka.
In 1955, renowned photographer Norman Parkinson, who worked at Vogue, made a working visit to Stockholm, where he saw 14-year-old Nena. This meeting was the beginning of the modeling career of the young beauty. Only two years Nena moved to London, where her work seriously in the world of high fashion. She waited a runaway success - a young Swede was offered a contract with modeling agency Ford, who was in New York. Nena gladly accepted the offer and went to another continent. There she waited for cooperation with the magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, shot her best photographers of the time - Richard Avedon, William Klein, Bert Stern and the aforementioned Norman Parkinson.
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In 1963, Salvador Dalí introduced already popular while Nena von Shlebryugge eccentric psychiatrist Timothy Leary, who was known for his research work on the impact of psychedelic drugs on the nervous system. Just one year, Timothy and Nena married at the mansion of billionaire William Hitchcock in Millbrook. This is quite an unusual wedding ceremony captured on film Donn Pennebaker documentary.
Marriage with Timothy Leary lasted only a year, in 1965 Nena filed for divorce. And in 1967, he remarried. New chosen background Shlebryugge became the first American-born Tibetan monk - Robert Thurman. In the same year the couple's first child was born - Ganden.
In general, 1967 turned out to be the event for Nena. The changes affected not only family life but also a career. Nena had a small role in the film Eddie Sedgwick "Ciao! Manhattan. " However, unfortunately, in the latter episodes of the known model were cut.
Later Nena threw her modeling career and decided to devote himself to the family, also in 1970, Robert and Nena had a second child - a daughter who was named Uma. Nena also actively engaged in the popularization of Buddhism in the United States.
From 1987 to 1989 she served as program director at the New York Open Centre, from 1991 to 1992 - Managing Director of Tibet House US, since 2001 and to this day Nena is executive director of the Tibetan medicine Menla Mountain Retreat.
But back to the very beginning of its history. In 1941, in Mexico City in a family Swede Birgit Holmquist and German aristocrat Colonel Baron Friedrich Carl von Shlebryugge daughter, Brigitte Caroline, or Nena. His marvelous beauty girl inherited from the mother, who in his youth had time to visit artist's model of the artist Axel Ebbe. His work, Famntaget (Hugs) still meets the Swedish ships in port city Smigehyuka.
In 1955, renowned photographer Norman Parkinson, who worked at Vogue, made a working visit to Stockholm, where he saw 14-year-old Nena. This meeting was the beginning of the modeling career of the young beauty. Only two years Nena moved to London, where her work seriously in the world of high fashion. She waited a runaway success - a young Swede was offered a contract with modeling agency Ford, who was in New York. Nena gladly accepted the offer and went to another continent. There she waited for cooperation with the magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, shot her best photographers of the time - Richard Avedon, William Klein, Bert Stern and the aforementioned Norman Parkinson.
In 1963, Salvador Dalí introduced already popular while Nena von Shlebryugge eccentric psychiatrist Timothy Leary, who was known for his research work on the impact of psychedelic drugs on the nervous system. Just one year, Timothy and Nena married at the mansion of billionaire William Hitchcock in Millbrook. This is quite an unusual wedding ceremony captured on film Donn Pennebaker documentary.
Marriage with Timothy Leary lasted only a year, in 1965 Nena filed for divorce. And in 1967, he remarried. New chosen background Shlebryugge became the first American-born Tibetan monk - Robert Thurman. In the same year the couple's first child was born - Ganden.
In general, 1967 turned out to be the event for Nena. The changes affected not only family life but also a career. Nena had a small role in the film Eddie Sedgwick "Ciao! Manhattan. " However, unfortunately, in the latter episodes of the known model were cut.
Later Nena threw her modeling career and decided to devote himself to the family, also in 1970, Robert and Nena had a second child - a daughter who was named Uma. Nena also actively engaged in the popularization of Buddhism in the United States.
From 1987 to 1989 she served as program director at the New York Open Centre, from 1991 to 1992 - Managing Director of Tibet House US, since 2001 and to this day Nena is executive director of the Tibetan medicine Menla Mountain Retreat.
