Karen Mulder
Karen Mulder was born in Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands on June 1st, 1968 and is the Model. At the age of 56, Karen Mulder biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Karen Mulder (born 1 June 1970) is a Dutch model and singer.
During the 1990s, she was considered a supermodel.
In the early 2000s she experienced mental health problems but subsequently returned to music and modelling.
Early life
Mulder was born in 1970 in Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands. She was raised in The Hague and Voorburg. Her father, Ben Mulder, is a tax inspector and her mother, Marijke (née de Jong), is a secretary. Mulder has a younger sister, Saskia, who became an actress after a stint studying economics. In 1985, at age 15, Mulder and her family went on a camping trip in the south of France. She saw an ad for Elite Model Management's "Look of the Year" contest in a newspaper. Mulder was wearing braces at the time and dismissed the idea of applying. A friend took some photographs she had of her and sent them to Elite without her knowledge. She won the preliminary contest in Amsterdam, and was sent to the finals of the contest, placing second. Mulder soon found herself in high demand for modeling jobs and was signed by Elite Paris.
Personal life
In 1988, at the age of 18, Mulder married French photographer René Bosne. They later divorced in 1993. Mulder stated that her life changed in 1993 when she was shuttling from airport to airport with almost no time at home. She then met real estate developer Jean-Yves Le Fur in the waiting lounge of a Paris airport. They soon became engaged. The relationship with Le Fur ended in 1997.
In 1995, she bought a château in France and set up a programme to provide holidays there for underprivileged children.
Mulder gave birth to a daughter on 30 October 2006.
On 31 October 2001, Mulder was interviewed on the France 2 show Tout le monde en parle (Everyone is Talking About It) hosted by Thierry Ardisson in front of a live studio audience. During the shows taping, Mulder claimed that various people had raped her, including police officers, politicians, members of her former agency Elite Model Management, and Prince Albert of Monaco.
The producers of the show did not broadcast the interview, and the recording was erased. Her parents blamed her troubles on drugs.
Days later, Mulder 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 she stayed for five months. The stay reportedly was paid for by Elite models president Gérald Marie, her employer and one of the accused. (It came after the BBC caught Marie on hidden camera trying to give a 15-year-old model £300 for sex, and bragging about Elite Model Look competitors he would sleep with that year.)
On 10 December 2002, after suffering for years from chronic depression, Mulder went into a coma after she overdosed on sleeping pills in an apparent suicide attempt. 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 of his telephone calls. She awoke from her coma the next day.
On 1 July 2009, it was reported that Mulder was arrested in Paris for threatening to attack her plastic surgeon.
Career
Mulder was modeling for Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Christian Lacroix, Versace, and Giorgio Armani by her second year on the runway. In 1991, she made her first appearance on Vogue's cover and then got a job with Guess. Mulder's arduous schedule at age 21, according to a New York Times article from 1991, describing a typical thirteen-hour day full of commitments to Ralph Lauren, a French film crew, Anna Sui and Giorgio Sant'Angelo.
Mulder appeared on the front page of British and Spanish Vogue in 1991–1992 and became the face of a Nivea advertisement campaign. Mulder began working with Victoria's Secret in 1992. In 1993, she was featured on the front page of Vogue in January and then in March.
Calvin Klein, Claude Montana, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint-Laurent's Rive Gauche fragrance, Guerlain, Chloé, Revlon, Gianni Versace, Chanel, and Hervé Léger were among her campaigns. Mulder has worked with some of the finest fashion photographers, including Javier Vallhonrat, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton, Max Valiant, Helmut Newton, Gilles Bensimon, Fabrizio Ferri, Steven Meisel, Robert Erdmann, and Arthur Elgort.
Mulder's off-the-runway path was managed by Jean-Yves Le Fur, her then-partner. In 1995, he worked with Hasbro on a Karen Mulder doll, which inspired the creation of a line of dolls based on the time's supermodels. Le Fur and Mulder also made an infomercial and video. Mulder's beauty and fashion CD-ROM, in which she gave makeup, beauty, and exercise advice, was published.
One of the first issues of Top Model magazine was entirely dedicated to Mulder, as well as an entire issue of Italian Vogue. Mulder's two appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1997 and 1998, as well as her appearances in the Victoria's Secret catalogue, raised her profile. She began a new calendar in 1997.
Mulder continued to post catwalks with photographers including Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell.
Mulder was one of the world's top-paid models for many years. She was reportedly making up to £10,000 per day at one point in her career.
Mulder retired from modeling for many years in 2000. In 2001, she made her acting debut in A Theft, One Night, France.
Mulder also pursued music, and released an album called I Am What I Am, which gained some success in the French charts in 2002. The single debuted at No. 1. No. 13 in France, No. 139. No. 22 in Belgium's Wallonia district, and No. 26 in the United States' No. 222. In Switzerland, there are 81. Karen Mulder co-created the self-titled CD in 2004 with Daniel Chenevez of Niagara.
Mulder returned to the catwalk at the Dior Fall/Winter 07/08 Couture Collection in Paris on July 1, 2007, modelled alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Helena Christensen, Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow, and Stella Tennant.