Occupation: Model/actress.
Birthday: Jan. 12, 1967.
Birthplace: Stockholm.
Current home: Los Angeles.
Marital Status: Single.
Car: A green 1991 Range Rover.
Working on: I’m the Elizabeth Arden model, and I’m promoting their new perfume, Sunflower. I’m getting ready to shoot the 1994 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and I just did a pilot for Fox-TV, a comedy called “The Wyatts.”
The last good movie I saw: “The Crying Game.”
I stay home to watch: “Law and Order,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Matlock, “60 Minutes” and “20/20.”
The book I’ve been recommending lately: I’ve been reading screenplays because I’m in acting school.
Favorite pigout food: I make a great apple pie.
Nickname: Vinnie.
Favorite performers: Audrey Hepburn, Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.
Favorite childhood memory: Going to my grandma’s country house in Norway every summer. That’s where I learned to swim and water-ski and be outdoors all the time.
Prized possession: An emerald ring with two diamonds that I got as a birthday present a couple of years ago.
Personal hero: My mom. She showed me how to be independent and that a woman can work and have children.
People always say: That I resemble Grace Kelly.
The worst advice my parents ever gave me: They didn’t. I was discovered at 13 by Eileen Ford, but they kept me in school and didn’t send me off.
People who knew me in high school thought I was: Skinny. I wasn’t the popular girl on the block. I’m sure the boys are pretty shocked now.
I knew I was a grownup when I: Started dealing with lawyers and contracts, but sometimes I still feel so young.
Behind my back, my friends say: “Why doesn’t she get married and have kids?”
Major accomplishment: That I’ve gotten this far on my own.
When people first meet me: They see how happy I am.
Three words that best describe me: Strong, happy and impatient.
