[3] Eventually, von Unwerth was able to graduate high school in Munich, where she would work as a circus magician's assistant for three years.

[2] At the age of twenty while walking down the street, von Unwerth was asked by a photographer if she ever thought about having a modeling career.

Her boyfriend at the time gave her a camera, leading to an impromptu photo shoot in Kenya by her of her model colleagues.

Her work has been used on other album covers including Bananarama's Pop Life (1991), Belinda Carlisle's A Woman and a Man (1996), Cathy Dennis' Am I the Kinda Girl?

"[7] Von Unwerth has directed short films for fashion designers,[14] and music videos for several pop musicians.