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Birgitte Caroline " Nena " von Schlebrügge (born January 8, 1941) is a Swedish-German fashion model of the 1950s and 1960s. She started her high-fashion modelling career in London in 1957 and continued in New York City in 1958 at the Ford Modeling Agency. In New York, she worked at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
Nov 9, 2019 · Nena von Schlebrügge was a top model in the 1950s and 1960s, working for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. She also became a psychotherapist and the Managing Director of Tibet House US, a non-profit organization for Tibetan culture and education.
May 20, 2017 · Nena von Schlebrugge’s quest for larger truths began when she was a schoolgirl of 14 in Stockholm. “No one there was even asking the right questions,” she said.
Sep 4, 2023 · Nena von Schlebrügge is a former model who posed for Salvador Dalí and married Robert Thurman, the first American ordained by the Dalai Lama. She is the mother of actress Uma Thurman and has a remarkable family history of dissidence and Buddhism.
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Nena von Schlebrügge is a Mexican-American yesteryear high-fashion model and psychotherapist who presently serves as Managing Director of Menla Mountain Retreat. This famous model of the 1950s and 1960s is however more familiar to the present generation as mother of renowned American actress and model, Uma Thurman.
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The former model and counterculture figure Nena von Schlebrügge turned her back on the vapidities of fame to pursue a more spiritual calling. Read the full article in Issue 76 of The Rake, featuring her encounters with Salvador Dalí, Timothy Leary and more.
Feb 1, 2016 · Born in Mexico, Nena von Schlebrügge was the daughter of a Swedish baroness and a German colonel. At 15 she was discovered in Stockholm by the British photographer Norman Parkinson. Von...
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