Her father blamed her troubles on drugs.ĭays later, Mulder repeated her allegations, this time to a weekly magazine in an interview conducted in her Paris apartment. The producers of the show did not broadcast the interview, and the recording was erased. During the shows taping, Mulder claimed that various people had tried to rape her, including top executives at her former agency, Elite Model Management, and Prince Albert of Monaco. 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. Depression, breakdown, and suicide attempt In 1995, she bought a château in France and set up a programme to provide holidays there for underprivileged children. Mulder released a beauty and fashion CD-ROM, in which she gave makeup, beauty, and exercise tips. Le Fur and Mulder also made an infomercial and video. In 1995, he collaborated with Hasbro on a Karen Mulder doll, which spurred development of an entire line of dolls modeled on the supermodels of the time. Le Fur began to manage Mulder's off-the-runway career. She then met real estate developer Jean-Yves Le Fur in the waiting lounge of a Paris airport. Mulder says her life changed in 1993 when she was shuttling from airport to airport with almost no time at home. By 1993, her marriage had fallen apart and they divorced. In 1988, at the age of 18, Mulder married French photographer René Bosne. She also pursued a career in music but had limited success.
She branched out into acting, making her debut in the French short film A Theft, One Night in 2001. Mulder retired from modeling in 2000.Īfterwards, she tried other career paths. At one point in her career she was earning up to £10,000 a day. Mulder went on to share catwalks with models such as Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell. Her two appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 19 and her poses for the Victoria's Secret catalogue increased Mulder's profile. One of the first issues of Top Model magazine was entirely devoted to Mulder along with an entire issue of Italian Vogue. Mulder has worked with some of the greatest fashion photographers, including Javier Vallhonrat, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton, Max Vadukul, Gilles Bensimon, Fabrizio Ferri, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Robert Erdmann, and Arthur Elgort. Other campaigns she appeared in included Calvin Klein, Claude Montana, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint-Laurent's Rive Gauche fragrance, as well as Guerlain, Chloé, Revlon, Jacques Fath, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Chanel and Hervé Léger. In 1993 she appeared on the cover of Vogue twice (January and March) In 1992, Mulder signed a contract with Victoria's Secret. She soon appeared on the cover of British Vogue and in a Nivea advertising campaign. She appeared on the cover of Vogue and before long, landed a contract for Guess in 1991, when she was 21 years old. By her second year on the runway, she was modeling for Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Christian Lacroix, Versace, and Giorgio Armani.
She won the preliminary contest in Amsterdam, and was sent to the finals of the contest, placing second. A friend took some photographs she had of her and sent them to Elite without her knowledge. She saw an ad for Elite Model Management's " Look of the Year" contest in a newspaper. In 1985, her family went on a camping trip in the south of France. Mulder enjoyed swimming, singing, and sailing as a child. Mulder has a younger sister, Saskia, who became an actress after a stint studying economics. Born in 1970, Mulder was raised in Den Haag and Voorburg, Mulder's father, Ben, is a tax inspector and her mother, Marijke, is a secretary.
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