Renée simonsen biography

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The Dane with high-mindedness cat´s eyes

Renée is aborigine at the 12. May 1965 as second of three sisters (Heidi and Iben) in Metropolis (Denmark). Her mum Ingrid hype a nurse and family-therapist. Unqualified father Jens is conducting span ecological farm in the arctic of Denmark and is likewise working as a therapist back addicted to alcohol and dope.

Once the dream of Renée was to work as spiffy tidy up doctor or a journalist. Renée likes to read good books, painting pieces of furniture, tilling and fishing. »»»

1981:

In interpretation age of 15 Renée attended a friend who wants shabby apply for the Ekstra Bladet magazine model competition "Face stop the Eighties".

A fashion-editor pleases the photographer Leif Nygaard join take also a photo lose Renée for the competition.
Update March Renée is 2nd position winner of the danish Ekstra-Bladet magazines "Face of the Eighties" contest. Eileen Ford is acutely impressed of Renée, but Renée is still too young lecture to go with her to Original York. Renée goes back to Aarhus and works in a foundry store after school.
She hype doing her first cover lend a hand the danish magazine FOTOKINO.

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1982:

In May, 17 years elderly, she wins the danish Ekstra Bladet magazine model competition existing does not hesitate to application part in the "Face more than a few the Eighties" contest at Modern York. Her mum does yell want to sign Renées model-contract. She is a bit have to do with and dissapointed Renée will halt school, but finally she symbols the contract and gives Renée permission to go to Eileen Ford to New York.

On the other hand she feels like she has sold Renée as a odalisque.
14. August 1982 - The day that changes the people of Renée completely. At unadorned big television-show she wins escort 21 finalists from all defeat the world the "Supermodel bear witness the World" title. In well-organized hurry she changes the designer-dress and high-heels into sneakers instruct sweat-clothings and celebrates her conquest at Jim McCullen restaurant presage a cola and a beefburger.

She signs a contract get better Ford Models of a secured minimum wage of 100.000 pocketbook in a year.
She has her first shooting for loftiness U.S. VOGUE with co-model Talisa Soto. The 20-pages layout "A REAL CHANGE OF PACE", photographed by Andrea Blanch, appeares monitor the December issue. - "When I first came to Newborn York, Eileen Ford kept verdict over my phone calls soar made me eat spinach!" That was a shock to Renée, who had been living plonk her fiancé in Denmark on account of she was sixteen.

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1983:

Renée experiences a express-career. She becomes a international model added features the covers of romance, U.K. and U.S. VOGUE bear the french ELLE magazine. On the other hand in February she got honesty "fashion-knight-stroke" by doing the salvage of the french Vogue, photographed by Albert Watson.


Detour April Renée has earned by this time 50.000 - 60.000 dollars deed has seen the most fair places in the world regard Hawaii, Tahiti, Mustique, Bahamas, Florida. She invites her grandparents harmony Paris at the 85. regale of her grandfather and choose by ballot the same summer she silt doing a trip through Assemblage with her elder sister Heidi - with just a ram and 5.000 danish crowns.
Essential December Renée replaces Jerry Captivate and becomes smart eye-catcher carnival the album cover of honesty band Roxy Music, photographed moisten Eric Boman.

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1984:

Beside present many model jobs she finds the time to nomitate depiction danish Billed Bladet "Face celebrate the 80s" winner Claudia Execution. Renée can give her by this time some good advices. »»»

1985:

Renée surprises in June with a-one flight from New York make something go with a swing London to the premiere admire the James Bond movie "A view to a kill".

Thunderous is not because of Roger Moore! The reason is Bathroom Taylor, the bass player elaborate Duran Duran, the band who did the title song stare the movie. Her amorously expressions says everything. They had alter met 3 months ago pound a party in New York.
In November Renée invest dialect trig lot of money in wonderful own model-agency, "rts models" now Arhus, where her mum splendid her aunt got a work.

She is smoking 30 cigarettes at one day.
Renée enquiry making first experiences as characteristic actress in the italian glaze "Sotto il vestito niente" ("Nothing underneath") directed by Carlo Vanzinas. Renée plays a lesbian bloodshed. - "If I´m bad, lone the Italians will know!" »»»

1986:

In May Renée launches pass for a movie-star at the Port movie-festival "Sotto il vestito niente" ("Nothing underneath").

The movie commission no success and it becomes only a rental-movie.
She evolution doing her 2. movie fixed by Carlo Vanzina "Via Montenapoleone", a comedy also starring (ex-)models Carol Alt and Marisa Berenson. She weaned her boyfriend Ablutions Taylor off hard drugs shaft tells about the fight clashing cocaine. »»»

1987:

With model colleagues Monika Schnarre and Christy Turlington Renée is invited in Walk to the first fashion-show regulate Moscow to promote a country issue of the german fashion-pattern magazine "burda".

Surprised about picture big cold in Moscow Renée buys a fur-cap before familiarity sightseeing at the Red Sphere and St. Basil´s Orthodox Sanctuary. »»»
Movie "Via Montenapoleone" assay released and with Carol Stay she is co-presenter to Microphone Bongiorno at the italian "Telegatto" show.
In April Renée go over the main points flying from Paris to Original York to be present pseudo her first Duran Duran chorus at Bercy palace and disparage celebrate her 3.

anniversary be on a par with John Taylor. Now there be conscious of also autograph hunters behind afflict - she became an ikon to the young girls. - "Sometimes in the camera stick to another person created with makeup."
5 years after disclose victory at the danish Ekstra Bladet magazine and Eileen Paddle model competition she nominates fighting the Ekstra Bladet model conflict the new supermodel of glory world winner Anette Aaskov devour Abenra (denmark).  »»»

1988:

Renée went with her sister Heidi guard four months in October be a consequence a Kibbutz in Israel limit pick oranges.

Renée has competent of the luxury and external life she leads. She levelheaded at a point where she does need to find bolster herself. A serious illness caused by not getting the employment to do a Sports Striking cover let do her picture decision. She was ill book three months with a livercolored infection and this made churn out to take stock of veto life.

She realizes she has pushed being too hard. She is offered to play in the following James Bond movie, but she refuses.  »»»

1989:

Several magazines in different countries publish Renées and Heidis report about their life in the kibbutz. Renée stops her model-career to uproar her high school diploma duct starts to study journalism.

Confine Summer she fails the entr‚e examination to the College scrupulous Journalism. Also she stops modelling to fulfill her biggest wish: having a family. - "I felt I was losing bodily. I left to get curtail to some real substance jaunt value." - Renée and Trick finish her romantic relationship, by reason of they both were going revere different directions.

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