The life story of the Scandinavian aristocratic mother Uma Thurman

• The life story of the Scandinavian aristocratic mother Uma Thurman

Name this Scandinavian beauty may seem unfamiliar, but certainly in terms of the elegant lady you will certainly get to know her daughter - Uma Thurman. Nena von Shlebryugge was very well-known model in the '60s, and her pretty face repeatedly appeared in magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

In 1941, in Mexico City in the family Swede Birgit Holmquist and German aristocrat Kolonela Baron Friedrich Carl von Shlebryugge daughter, Brigitte Caroline.

From my mother's daughter has inherited an unusual appearance, and his father - the aristocratic charm.

The mother Nena, Birgit Holmquist, a young man posing nude eminent sculptor Axel Ebbe statue for "Hugs", depicting a nude diva. This reverent statue in 1930 and today meets the ships in the harbor of a small cape on the most southerly point of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

In 1955, the renowned photographer Norman Parkinson, who worked in of Vogue, went on a business trip to Stockholm. There's something he saw 14-year-old Nena. This meeting was the beginning of the modeling career of the young beauty. Just two years Nena moved to London, where her work seriously in the world of high fashion.

In the new field Woman waiting for a runaway success - the young Swede was offered a contract with modeling agency Ford, who was in New York.

Nena gladly accepted the offer and went to another continent. There she waited for cooperation with the magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, shot her best photographers of the time - Richard Avedon, William Klein, Bert Stern, and the already mentioned Norman Parkinson.

Photographers cultivated her aristocratic finesse, charm and trusted her to pose in the most mind-blowing outfits and interiors of the palace, where Nena looked organically and naturally, as befits a real aristocrat by birth.

Nena subtle beauty inspired many photographers and contemporary artists. Rumor has it that she became a muse for the great Salvador Dalí, who in 1963 introduced the already known by the time a beautiful woman with a psychiatrist Timothy Leary, known for work in the field of psychedelic effects on the nervous system.

Just one year, Timothy and Nena married in the mansion of billionaire William Hitchcock in Millbrook. This is quite an unusual wedding ceremony captured on film documentary Donn Pennebaker.

Marriage Timothy Leary lasted only a year, in 1965, Nena filed for divorce. Two years later she married a more extravagant person - Robert Thurman. Nena's husband became the first American to vows as a Buddhist monk Dalai Lama personally.

It was a marriage blessed by someone at the top - have merged two harmonious souls who to this day live in peace and harmony and are the divine light of kindness to people. Soon the couple had a first-born Gandhi.

All of Robert Thurman at Nena four children, among them - the famous actress Uma Thurman, who is very like her mother.

Uma was born in 1970. Her name means "giver of bliss." Then Nena far-fetched to complete the modeling career and give her family. In addition, it is so imbued with the ideas of her husband, which is also fascinated by the active popularization of Buddhism in the United States and even became a certified psychologist.

Today, Nena - executive director of the Tibetan Medicine Center Menla Mountain Retreat and is proud of its talented and successful children with unique names associated with ancient Buddhist philosophy - Ganden, Uma, Dechen, Mipham. And yet it remains the same aristocrat, a beauty and a happy woman.