Helena Christensen is a Danish fashion model, former Victoria's Secret Angel, and beauty queen. Christensen has an antiques shop in Manhattan and sells some of her clothes in her mother's Yo-Yo Second Hand Shop in Christianshavn.She co-founded Nylon magazine as the original creative director with American entrepreneur Mic Neumann. She has launched her own clothing line Christensen & Sigersen, with long-term friend Leif Sigersen. The pair also run Butik, a shop in New York. Christensen is also a photographer, and her photos appeared in magazines such as Marie Claire and ELLE. Her exhibition A Quiet Story, curated by Jim Cook, premiered in Rotterdam in 2006. Chanel Tokyo's NEXUS Gallery is scheduled to mount the exhibition in 2010.Christensen lived with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and has been romantically linked to Leonardo DiCaprio. She has one child, a son named Mingus Lucien Reedus (born October 13, 1999) with actor Norman Reedus. While maintaining careers in photography and clothing design, Christensen still remains a hands-on mother to Mingus. "He's all that matters," she says. "He's my best friend." Reedus and Christensen split in 2003. From 2004 to 2006, Christensen dated Danish rock band Grand Avenue frontman Rasmus Walter-Hansen. Christensen is currently dating Interpol frontman Paul Banks.
