Born in Denmark in 1968, Helena Christensen started modelling at the age of nine. She has now spent about two thirds of her life in front of the camera. At the age of 18, she left her home in Copenhagen to pursue a modelling career in Paris and was signed immediately to the Marilyn Agency, which still represents her in France. Christensen’s striking beauty and photogenic ease were first brought to wider public attention in 1989 with a shoot for French Elle by photographer Friedemann Hauss.

pursue： 追寻，从事；18岁时，海伦娜离开家乡哥本哈根，来到巴黎开始了模特生涯。
striking：惊人的。
photogenic： 适于拍照的；上照的。

A cover for British Vogue, shot by Peter Lindbergh, quickly followed and a new supermodel was born. One of the hardest-working models in the Nineties, Christensen regularly featured in ads for Armani, Versace and Karl Lagerfeld, while contracts with Cover Girl cosmetics, Patrick Cox and high street store Dorothy Perkins kept her profile high.

feature：演出。
cosmetics：化妆品。

Off-camera, Christensen has largely maintained a healthy detachment from the skin-deep world of fashion, although she counts fellow supermodels Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni and Eva Herzigova among her closest friends. An affair with late rock god Michael Hutchence of INXS briefly boosted tabloid interest in Christensen in the early Nineties, but she generally eschews the publicity on which many models thrive, claiming: "Real life starts when I stop being a model."

detachment： 分离，分隔；在闪光灯外，海伦娜仍然拥有健康幸福的生活。
tabloid：小报；在九十年代初，海伦娜和当时著名的摇滚歌星哈森的绯闻曾经轰动一时。
eschew： 避开，远离。

A talented photographer, she has also held several solo exhibitions of her pictures - and, in 1999, Helena announced that she would be cutting down on her modelling committments to concentrate on a new career as creative director to Nylon magazine. The following October, Helena and her actor boyfriend, Norman Reedus, celebrated the birth of their first son, Mingus.

talented：有能力的，天才的；海伦娜还是一个极有天赋的摄影师，她经常举办个人照片展出，1999年，海伦娜宣布将减少时装演出，把精力放在新的职业“尼龙”杂志的总监上。
creative：有创造力的。

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