Born in 1968, Helena Christensen is a Danish fashion model and photographer. Her extraordinary beauty and skills have made for a versatile career: as well as being a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen, Christensen has also designed clothing lines and worked as creative director for Nylon magazine.
Christensen has worn one of the finest diamonds ever found and cut: In 2003, Christensen wore the Steinmetz Pink as it was first unveiled in the Monaco Grand Prix, in a ceremony that got to wear it.
The Pink Star qualifies as the largest internally flawless fancy vivid pink polished diamond that the Gemological Institute of America has ever graded, weighing just shy of 60 carats, more than twice as much as the closest contender, the 25-carat ‘Graff Pink’ which sold for $46.2 million in 2010. Type IIa stone weighed 132.5 carats in its raw state, when it was discovered in Botswana in 1999. After Steinmetz Diamonds polished the gem and named it the ‘Steinmetz Pink’, it received its public premiere in 2003 and was first sold and renamed in 2007.
