Karen Mulder is known for her work with Versace, Dior, and Chanel during the 1980s and 1990s.
22 Facts About Karen Mulder
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Karen Mulder was born in 1970 in Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands.
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Karen Mulder's father, Ben Mulder, is a tax inspector and her mother, Marijke, is a secretary.
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Karen Mulder has a younger sister, Saskia, who became an actress after a stint studying economics.
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Karen Mulder saw an ad for Elite Model Management's "Look of the Year" contest in a newspaper.
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Karen Mulder was wearing braces at the time and dismissed the idea of applying.
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Karen Mulder won the preliminary contest in Amsterdam, and was sent to the finals of the contest, placing second.
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Karen Mulder soon found herself in high demand for modeling jobs and was signed by Elite Paris.
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Karen Mulder released a beauty and fashion CD-ROM, in which she presented makeup, beauty, and exercise tips.
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For many years, Karen Mulder was among the ten best-paid models in the world.
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Karen Mulder made her acting debut in the French short film A Theft, One Night in 2001.
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Karen Mulder pursued music, and released an album including the single I Am What I Am which achieved some success in the French charts in 2002.
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In 1988, at the age of 18, Karen Mulder married French photographer Rene Bosne.
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Karen Mulder stated that her life changed in 1993 when she was shuttling from airport to airport with almost no time at home.
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Karen Mulder then met real estate developer Jean-Yves Le Fur in the waiting lounge of a Paris airport.
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Karen Mulder gave birth to a daughter on 30 October 2006.
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On 31 October 2001, Karen Mulder was interviewed on the France 2 show Tout le monde en parle hosted by Thierry Ardisson in front of a live studio audience.
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Days later, Karen Mulder repeated her allegations, this time to a weekly magazine in an interview conducted in her Paris apartment.
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On 10 December 2002, after suffering for years from chronic depression, Karen Mulder went into a coma after she overdosed on sleeping pills in an apparent suicide attempt.
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Karen Mulder was rushed to the American Hospital in Neuilly after neighbors found her passed out on the floor of the Paris apartment on exclusive Avenue Montaigne where she was staying with friends.
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Karen Mulder's parents flew from the Netherlands to be by her side along with former fiance Jean-Yves Le Fur.
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On 1 July 2009, it was reported that Karen Mulder was arrested in Paris for threatening to attack her plastic surgeon.