12 Facts About Bodil Joensen

Bodil Bjarta Joensen was a Danish pornographic actress born in the village of Hundige, near Copenhagen.

Bodil Joensen became an alcoholic and died several years later.

The daughter of a devout Christian mother and an absentee military father, Joensen grew up in the Copenhagen suburb of Hundige.

Bodil Joensen's mother was often physically abusive, sometimes violently so, and would whip her.

Bodil Joensen later left to set up her own breeding farm, "Insemination Central", while Joensen became known for her ability to handle aggressive animals such as boars, and was then ruined by country gossip, spread principally by farmers' wives who were unhappy at the prospect of their husbands working with a young single girl on farm business.

Bodil Joensen wrote a column answering readers' letters in SCREW magazine.

Bodil Joensen immediately became an underground celebrity, and drew attention from other documentary makers as well as tourists towards her expanding farm.

Bodil Joensen never became anything but a little, weak dog.

Bodil Joensen's life falling apart, Joensen became an alcoholic, and progressively less able to care for her animals.

None of her animals ultimately survived, and Bodil Joensen herself did not recover after they were euthanised.

Bodil Joensen gave her last interview in 1980 and died in 1985.

Bodil Joensen was 40 years of age at the time of her death.