Faime Jurno

[1] Jurno was born in West Berlin to an Estonian mother, Meeta Sprenk, and a German father, Hans Prehn.

When the Soviets were about to reoccupy Estonia in 1944, Jurno's mother fled the country with her husband and the retreating German troops and settled in Bavaria where she had a daughter; Jurno's half-sister, actress Nady Sprenk-Dorn.

She later divorced her husband and moved to West Berlin where she married Jurno's father.

[2] Jurno began her career as a model at age fifteen for Tallinn Fashion House (Estonian: Tallinna Moemaja).

[1] At large fashion shows in Moscow, she was usually the only representative of the Estonian SSR.