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| Birth Name(s) : Karen Mulder |
Date of Birth: July 1, 1970 |
| Status:
Dating
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Partner:
Jean Yves |
| Profession:
Actor/Model |
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Full Karen Mulder Biography
| Karen Mulder was born in Holland and launched her modelling career by winning an Elite Look of the Year contest in 1987 in Amsterdam. It didn't take her long to get big name contracts on the runway and with magazines around the world. She met Jean Yves in 1993 and now wears a rather large engagement ring. |
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Additional Karen Mulder Biography
Karen Mulder, born June 1, 1970 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (near Rotterdam) and raised in Den Haag and Voorburg, Holland, is a former Dutch supermodel.
Her father Ben, is a tax inspector and her mother, Marijke, is a secretary. Karen has a younger sister, Saskia, who became an actress after a stint studying economics.
The list of her clients became quite impressive. Campaigns she appeared in included Guess? (as the face of Guess? in 1991 when she was 21 years old), Calvin Klein, Claude Montana, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint-Laurent fashion and Rive Gauche fragrance, as well as Guerlain, Chloé, Valentino, Revlon, Jacques Fath, Gianfranco Ferrè, Gianni Versace, Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, and Herve Leger. Karen has worked with some of the greatest fashion photographers, including Javier Vallhonrat, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton, Max Vadukul, Gilles Bensimon, Fabrizio Ferri, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Robert Erdmann, and Arthur Elgort.
One of the first issues of Top Model magazine was entirely devoted to her along with an entire issue of Italian Vogue.
In her glory days, called "The Blonde With Class" by Vogue editors, she went on to share catwalks with, and was considered the equal of, such top models such as Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell. Together with a few other models, including her best friend Carla Bruni, these women were the fashion industry's elite. At one point in her career she was earning up to £10,000 a day.
In 1997, Karen Mulder said she planned to "spend most of the year at home in Monaco with Yves" (and supermodel neighbors Helena Christensen, Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer and Eva Herzigová). But, soon after this, their engagement broke up.
In 1995, she bought a château in France and set up a scheme to provide holidays there for underprivileged children.
In April 1998, she announced she was thinking of quitting modeling and revealed some of her true feelings. "From the beginning, I hated being photographed," she told reporters at the time. "For me, it was just an assumed role, and in the end, I didn't know who I really was as a person. Everybody was saying to me, `Hi, you're fantastic.' But inside, I felt worse from day to day."
Days later, she repeated her allegations, this time to a weekly magazine in an interview conducted in her Paris apartment. Within hours of the interview, her sister Saskia arrived and took her to Villa Montsouris, a psychiatric hospital specializing in such disorders as depression, anxiety, and delirium, where Karen stayed for more than three months. The stay reportedly was paid for by Elite models president Gerald Marie, an old friend of hers. Her father later publicly blamed her troubles on drugs.
Yet no one believed her. Feeling increasingly isolated, she finally broke down. "It seemed everyone was against me," she later remembered about this period. "People told me I was fantasizing, that my psychoanalysis was wrong. So in order to be heard, I exaggerated. And I went overboard." Since then, she has recanted the rape allegations she made to the press and apologized to Prince Albert. But she continued to insist that she was sexually abused as a child.
On December 11, 2002, after suffering for years from chronic depression, Karen Mulder went into a coma after she overdosed on sleeping pills in an apparent attempt to take her own life. She had made no attempt to save herself and had seemed determined only to end a life haunted by mental breakdown, drug-taking, and alleged rape. She left no note. She was rushed to the American Hospital in Neuilly after neighbors found her passed out on the floor of the Paris apartment on exclusive Avenue Montaigne where she was staying with friends. Mulder's parents flew from the Netherlands to be by her side along with former fiancé Jean-Yves le Fur. Le Fur was reportedly one of the people who found Mulder unconscious after arriving at the apartment after Mulder had not answered several telephone calls of his.
Upon discharge from the hospital, Mulder stayed out of the limelight to recover for about a year. Mulder was quoted in Gaia magazine in 2004 as being more trustful in the future: “At this moment, I am rather happy. But it takes time to cure the wounds. I know that I am on the way. Today, I want to live, quite simply!”
In the summer of 2004, Mulder decided to re-enter the music industry. She worked with Daniel Chenevez of the Niagara group to create the self titled CD Karen Mulder.
On July 1st 2007 she made a triumphant return to the catwalk at the Dior Autumn/Winter 07/08 Couture Collection in Paris, modelling alongside fellow legends Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Helena Christensen, Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow and Stella Tennant.
Haute couture - Spring/Summer 1996 {Valentino}Ready to wear - Spring/Summer 1997 {Badgley Mischka, Bill Blass, Corinne Cobson, Hervé Leger, Lanvin, Nicole Miller, Ocimar Versolato, Ralph Lauren, Veronique Leroy, Vivienne Westwood}Ready to wear - Autumn/Winter 1997 {Antonio Berardi, Christian Dior, John Galliano}Victoria's Secret - May 2000 |
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