Birgitte Caroline "Nena" von Schlebrügge (born January 8, 1941) is a Mexican-born Swedish-German fashion model of the 1950s and 1960s.

[2] Her Swedish mother Birgit Holmquist [d] served as Axel Ebbe's [sv] model for Famntaget  [d] ("The Embrace"), a 1930s statue of a nude woman that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk in Sweden.

[citation needed] In 1955, at the age of 14, Nena was discovered by Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson when he was on a tour in Stockholm, Sweden.

In New York City, she continued her career as a top model, working at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

The film took four years to make; and drastic changes from the original story were made, causing the filmmakers to remove many scenes, including Nena's, shot in 1967.

[1] Tibet House US was founded in 1986 by the Thurmans, Philip Glass, and Richard Gere, at the behest of the Dalai Lama.

[10] Since 2001, Nena has been the Managing Director of the Tibet House US-owned Menla Mountain Retreat and is now the Executive Chairwoman, where she has overseen the construction of a state-of-the-art Tibetan medicinal spa facility and business in the Catskill Mountains in Phoenicia, New York.

[5] The children grew up in Woodstock, New York in a house built by the Thurmans on nine acres of land purchased with Nena's inheritance.