Veruschka

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Anyone like her here? She was a model in the 60's. Revoultionized the industry with her look.
Quoted as saying:
"I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'"

I guess she still does some modeling.

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I didn´t know here before, but she has a beautiful face.

On the first pic she looks like Barbie. Smile

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She's in the latest issue of French Vogue. teehee

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Yay! In that model book that Im reading she had a scary upbringing Sad

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Apparently her father was this anti-Hitler organizer and he was found, so Hitler had him arrested and hanged publicly while little Verushka and her mother and sister had to flee to France. Sad

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Veruschka was born in 1939 in East Prussia as Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort. For a short time, she enjoyed a wealthy lifestyle residing in East Prussia in a large house on an enormous estate that had been in her family for centuries. Her mother was the former Countess Gottliebe von Kalnein (b. 1913). Her father was a German count and army reserve officer who became a key member of the German Resistance after witnessing Jewish children being beaten and killed. When Veruschka was five years old, Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort was executed for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the July 20 Plot. After his death, the remaining family members spent their times in labor camps until the end of World War II. By the end of the war, her family was left homeless. As a young girl, she attended 13 schools. Her traumatic childhood experiences later triggered heavy depression in 1974. She has three sisters: Marie Eleanore "Nona" (b. 1937, married Jan van Haeften and Wolf Siegfried Wagner, son of Wieland Wagner and grandson of composer Richard Wagner), Gabriele (b. 1942, married Armin, Edler Herr und Freiherr von Plotho), and Katharina (b. 1944, married Henrik Kappelhoff-Wulff).

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I read about it on her Wiki!
lol
That she had like traumatic experiences with the war and stuff?