Nena von Schlebrügge
Nena von Schlebrügge | |
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Von Schlebrügge in 2014 | |
| Born | Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge January 8, 1941 |
| Occupation | Fashion model |
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| Children | 4, including Uma |
Birgitte Caroline "Nena" von Schlebrügge (born January 8, 1941, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Swedish-German-Mexican 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.
She was briefly married to Timothy Leary from 1964 to 1965. After marrying the Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman in 1967 she adopted the name Nena Thurman. The actress Uma Thurman is their daughter.
She studied to become a psychotherapist and served as Managing Director of Tibet House US. She is now the Executive Chairwoman of the Menla retreat and health spa in upstate New York.