Nena von Schlebrügge
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Nena von Schlebrügge (Thurman) in Ladakh, India.
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January 8, 1941 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Fashion model |
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Timothy Leary (1964–1965) Robert Thurman (1967–present) |
| Children | Ganden Thurman Uma Thurman Dechen Thurman Mipam Thurman |
Birgitte Caroline "Nena" von Schlebrügge (born January 8, 1941) is a Mexican American former fashion model of the 1950s and 1960s. She is now the managing director of Menla Mountain Retreat.
Nena von Schlebrügge was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She is the daughter of a Swedish mother, Birgit Holmquist (1911–1973), and a German father, Colonel Baron Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge (1886–1954), a German monarchist and cavalry officer in World War I who became a businessman during the 1920s and 1930s in Berlin. During World War II, he was jailed by the National Socialists for refusing to rejoin the military and for protecting Jewish friends. Birgit Holmquist married him in jail and used her Swedish national privilege to get him out; the couple fled to Mexico, where Nena and her brother Björn were born.
Von Schlebrügge's maternal grandmother's parents were German and Danish. Her mother had served as Axel Ebbe's model for Famntaget ("The Embrace"), a 1930s statue of a nude woman that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk in Sweden. On her father's side, she has an older half-sister, who was the paternal grandmother of German-Swedish football player Max von Schlebrügge.
In 1955 at the age of 14 Nena was discovered by Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson when he was on a tour in , Sweden. In 1957 Nena moved to London, England, to pursue a career in high-fashion modelling. She found immediate success and was invited to New York City by Eileen Ford of the Ford Modeling Agency to continue her modelling career.
In the snow storm of March 1958, at the age of 17, she arrived in New York City on the Queen Mary. In New York City she continued her modelling career as a top model, working at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She was photographed by many fashion photographers, including Gleb Derujinsky.
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