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Nedlees to say.... ABSOLUTELY STUNNING & FASCINATING!!:woot::heart::woot: :heart::woot:

I tried to comment these scans eariler, but I just coudn't find words :) Whatever we can say, no matter how positive words we use, it is still not enough to describe Helena's beauty.

Sooner or later I will get the issue^_^
Thanks Archana for the scans! :flower:
 
Przemek said:
Sooner or later I will get the issue^_^
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Now I can not wait to leave for UK to get my PERSONAL and EXCLUSIVE issue or even issues of GQ;-))) Can't take my eyes from these photographs... I suppose some other GQ will make reprints... just one of the best editorial from last years...
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i'm glad she gets so much attention now. back in the 90's she was always in the shadow of other girls.
 
m.j. said:
i'm glad she gets so much attention now. back in the 90's she was always in the shadow of other girls.
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I can not really agree that she was in the shadow of other girls and especially in the middle of 90ies she was getting equally same including edits, advertisements, covers, etc. the only thing is that she has never got solo cover of American but many girls did not get so much ELLE or even GQ attention...
 
KissMiss said:
I can not really agree that she was in the shadow of other girls and especially in the middle of 90ies she was getting equally same including edits, advertisements, covers, etc. the only thing is that she has never got solo cover of American but many girls did not get so much ELLE or even GQ attention...
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oh she did her modeling great... but in public was more worried about cindy or naomi... even helena's relationship with michael inxs was not overexposed, though they were gorgeous copule, and they had rocky relationship...
but, helena and christy somehow were always in the shadow as fas as their personal life is considered.
 
m.j. said:
oh she did her modeling great... but in public was more worried about cindy or naomi... even helena's relationship with michael inxs was not overexposed, though they were gorgeous copule, and they had rocky relationship...
but, helena and christy somehow were always in the shadow as fas as their personal life is considered.
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Alright that's may be true and especially in the countries like mine;-)
 
What does the cover of the issue look like? Is there anything about "men of the year 2007"?
 
brokenenglish said:
Her body is still amazing...
she's still got it!!! Probably always will!
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IMO Helena and Yasmeen had the best bodies of the 90's Supers, then Cindy and Claudia, and as we can see the body of Helena is still the best!
 
m.j. said:
back in the 90's she was always in the shadow of other girls.
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:innocent:


m.j. said:
oh she did her modeling great... but in public was more worried about cindy or naomi... even helena's relationship with michael inxs was not overexposed, though they were gorgeous copule, and they had rocky relationship...
but, helena and christy somehow were always in the shadow as fas as their personal life is considered.
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I disagree, the relationship of Helena and Michael was very, very public, there were pictures of them everywhere, it had more attention of press than every one of Naomi.
 
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I really enjoyed reading this brief for Mirror.Co.Uk...
HEL'S BELLS

EXCLUSIVE 20 years on and Helena's still got it..

Helena Christensen proves she must be the world's yummiest mummy as she poses for this sexy picture.
The 38-year-old Danish model, who took up photography after her son Mingus was born, first took the catwalks by storm 20 years ago.
But a new photoshoot for GQ magazine, in which she poses only in pink knickers, shows the seven years that have passed since she became a mum haven't diminished her wow factor.
And with looks like this, she's neither shy nor retiring...

October's GQ is on sale now.

Mirror.Co.Uk
 
Head girl

Helena Christensen likes to wear hats – quirky ones, straw ones, trilbies (including a Marc Jacobs favourite she has been photographed in several times over the summer). It’s mainly to shade her green eyes from the sun. “I don’t like sunglasses,” she says, a light transatlantic drawl masking her native Danish lilt. “They make me feel too detached from reality, like I’m not really there – you know what I mean?”

It’s unusual for one of the original 1990s supermodel gang to be quite so concerned with keeping it real. But, equally, it’s pretty unexpected for any model to request a ham-and-cheese sandwich on crusty white bread, then send it back because it doesn’t have mayonnaise. “Could you tell them to put a lot of creamy stuff in, and maybe some lettuce and tomato?” she pleads, pronouncing tomato as they do in New York, the city she now calls home. “I mean,” she lowers her voice and widens her eyes at me, “when I said ham and cheese, I didn’t mean literally.”

Christensen was always different from the other girls. She had a woman’s body, for one thing, and was pretty in a sultry, not remotely left-field way at a time when models were expected to be waif-like and edgy. She was the sex bomb, the Lamb’s Navy Rum fantasy (her video for Chris Isaak’s song Wicked Game is still considered the sexiest ever), when all around were skin and bone and monobrows. Yet somehow she maintained her position when others, such as Claudia Schiffer, found themselves sidelined. What probably made the difference was her personality – her willingness to take risks and throw herself into the creative process. In private, she was more earthy than glamorous. She wore secondhand dresses and crochet shawls and didn’t bother to brush her hair, all before anybody had got round to labelling the look “boho”.

Ah, yes, the hair. Dark, thick and long, the hair has always been Christensen’s signature – and now she is bringing out a range of hair products called Model.Me for Toni & Guy, along with Erin O’Connor and Jamelia. Just don’t expect the usual PR shtick from this particular “face of”.
“To be honest,” she says, flicking a shiny brown lock away from the mayonnaise, “I’ll probably be using Jamelia’s range. Hers is sort of aimed at Afro, and because that hair can be quite dry, I’m, like, ‘Great!’ I get through a bottle of conditioner a week. It’s my South American roots.” (Her mother is Peruvian, her father Danish.) Christensen’s own range is “more or less for the natural look, but I don’t actually shampoo my hair that much. I like it to get infused with the natural oils”.

It’s not exactly the spiel you would expect, but that is part of why she has been picked to represent the brand. Besides being a model and having great hair, she is a photographer, and a retailer with her own shop and clothing label, and has a seven-year-old son, Mingus. Oh, and she’s 38. “And never married. Please say that! The press always say I was married and divorced ... I’ve never even lived with anyone, including the father of my son.” All of the above makes her someone women can actually identify with (try saying that of Kate, Naomi or Claudia). She works hard. She plays hard. She is bringing up a child on her own, and she’s pushing 40 – hurrah!

Mingus’s father is the actor Norman Reedus. Previously, she dated Michael Hutchence (this subject is out of bounds, not because she is squeamish, but because of the monotonous regularity with which his name crops up) and Leonardo DiCaprio. There is nobody at the moment, something she is not afraid to admit. “It is not easy to open up to someone and not worry about being crushed. And, nowadays, with texts and whatever, it’s so easy to make mistakes. We all do it. We all become pathetic.”

She doesn’t, though, blame her looks for frightening away prospective suitors. “Looks are important to anyone, but they only last the two minutes until you start talking. And then people discover that I am kind of quirky and a bit strange, and if they don’t run screaming, great.” Should a man stick around, Christensen has a method for sorting out the lightweights from the genuine prospects. “It’s always a good thing to get a little tipsy together, because if someone can still be cool when they are a bit drunk, that’s a good test. And then you have to do something mundane and routine and boring, and see how that goes. You know, are we going to be able to change nappies together?”

It doesn’t get any easier, and she isn’t holding her breath. “My parents are about to have their 40th wedding anniversary. My grandparents were married for almost 70 years. My great-grandparents met in a cigar factory when they were 11, and that was that.” She laughs. “I would like to marry, just so I could have my grandmother as my bridesmaid. But I’m not sure marriage is such a good idea. And I don’t want to wreck a great family tradition.”

Life is very busy. Besides looking after Mingus, which she does without the help of a nanny, she divides her time between modelling, photography (her most recent job was the latest One antipoverty campaign for Bono) and what she describes as “other projects”, including her clothing label Christensen & Sigersen. Predictably, the label is not her project in name only (this is, after all, the woman who likes to keep it real). “There are only two of us, and we do everything ourselves: get the fabrics, do the orders, show it to the clients. We don’t even have an assistant. Retail is really hard work.”

In her native Copenhagen, home is the same little flat she lived in when she was in her early twenties and dating Hutchence (“I could use more space, but the thing is, I can’t imagine living anywhere else”), and her mother still sources many of her clothes from the secondhand shop she owns there. “I was never mad for designer stuff, especially not shoes or bags. I don’t want to be wearing the same thing as everyone else. I don’t get it,” she says.
Just like she doesn’t get dieting or the gym. “I haven’t worked out in my entire life. But I do box now, just for strength.” Her last sparring partner was the rapper Q-Tip. I suggest that could have been a tricky pairing for him, but she looks baffled.

How does she feel about ageing? She does, inevitably, look older than she did as a dewy-skinned 24-year-old – that must be hard for a much-photographed model. “Well, you have all the pictures, so it’s all there to see. But when Mingus brings cute girls home, am I going to be sitting there in my dressing gown like a witch, with all my covers spread around me, going, ‘I was beautiful once’?”

The answer is obviously no. Still, I pity those future girlfriends.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/beauty/article2387822.ece

P.S. She is going to dye hair green
 
helena is seen very young and it has a pretty body!


i love helena!
 
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