His last name comes from his paternal grandmother from Germany, who is an older half sister of actress Uma Thurman´s mother Nena von Schlebrügge, making Uma his first cousin once removed.
In 1955 at the age of 14 Nena was discovered by Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson when he was on a tour in Stockholm, Sweden.
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She found immediate success and was invited to New York City by Eileen Ford of the Ford Modeling Agency to continue her modelling career.
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Her mother had served as Axel Ebbe's model for Famntaget ("The Embrace"), a 1930s statue of a nude woman that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk in Sweden.
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On her father's side she has an older half sister, who was the paternal grandmother of German-Swedish football player Max von Schlebrügge.
He spotted Nena von Schlebrügge, the mother of Uma Thurman at age 16 when she left her senior school in Stockholm, and brought her to London to model for Vogue magazine.
The model for the statue was Birgit Holmquist, mother of the model Nena von Schlebrügge and grandmother of actress Uma Thurman.
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