BRIGITTE NIELSEN: una strega platinata
Blonde, tall, statuesque, the living embodiment of Barbie Denmark It is Brigitte Nielsen, stage name of Gitte Nielsen, actress, model, television host and - for those who do not know it - pure singer, peerless face-icon of the decade so dear to us, now disappeared from the scene.
His career began in the late 70's when, graduated top, he began working as a model, thanks to his imposing physique, distributed and eighty-five feet in height.
His appearance follows perfectly the aesthetic typical of the eighties, a woman androgynous but sexy, aggressive, flashy and elegant at the same time, wanting to be many people on the catwalk: Gianni Versace Giorgio Armani Gianfranco through Ferré. In 1983 he married for the first time the lucky one in question is the Danish composer Kasper Winding, the report of which the first born son, Jullian.
In Italy Brigitte was noticed by producer Dino de Laurentiis that engages starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film epic
Yado (1985). But it is only with the next film that Nielsen sees open the doors of Hollywood, where she met her future second husband Sylvester Stallone that he wants at his side in
Rocky IV and Cobra
.
The couple divorced in 1987 after only two years of marriage stallonesco.
same period Brigitte debut in Italy alongside Pippo Baudo and Lorella Cuccarini as television host of the show for Channel 5
Festival where it occurs also as a singer 's debut album
Everybody tells a story that was extremely successful in Austria and Germany thanks to the next hit single
Body to body ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xH8Wqdb4U0 ) , a duet with Austrian singer Falco. Meanwhile, Nielsen is back on the big screen with Beverly Hills Cop II
alongside Eddie Murphy film that devotes part of a woman sexy and dangerous action film, a role that will continue to be so often required for subsequent productions.
In 1988, Gitte, said Brigitte, is engaged to football player Mark Gastineau, with whom she's second son, Killian. But once again, in 1990, the story ends after just two years and Nielsen restores the music recorded the single
Rockin 'like a radio , announced on a European tour.
continues 90 years divides between the film career of American action movies and comedies unsuccessful mailbox in Italy. Then there's the run of the Sanremo Festival again next to Baudo (1992), participation in Fantaghirò 2 (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWfBRoxvfss&feature=related ) in the guise of memorable black witch and a long series of broadcasts and films less visible (
You know the last ,
A Place in the Sun ,
Paparazzi and even the Danish Big Brother).
Trivia:
- Lately Brititte Nielsen has participated in many reality shows around the world in 2004 was one of the competitors on the reality show The Mole
Raidue up, then
The Surreal Life 3 for the U.S. network VH1, Celebrity Big Brother
in the United Kingdom and
Strange Love for VH1, the latter saw the cameras follow her and the rapper Public Enemy, Flavor Flav, who were involved in an unlikely love story started on the set of The Surreal Life 3
in which both were involved and that this reality sitcom is a spin-off.
- In July 2004, with close friend, photographer, filmmaker, author and image consultant Daniel Hood, a documentary co-produced shock among the favelas de Atibaja (Brazil) for support of projects' Association Italian humanists in the World Onlus.
- In 2006 Brigitte and 'married for the fifth time with Mattia Dessi, a bartender Sardinian fifteen years younger than her, and was in the U.S. reality show The Surreal Life: Fame game

- On 9 July 2007 has entered a rehabilitation clinic to recover from addictions of alcohol and in January 2008 was one of the stars of
Celebrity rehab ( http://www.youtube .com / watch? v = E-LkYgHhLdw ) series of shocks transmitted by VH1 in the U.S. and Five in Britain, somewhere between reality and documentary that follows the rehabilitation care of different personalities from the entertainment world in the fight against their dependencies.
- Most recently, in June 2008, Nielsen has undergone some plastic surgery, including facelifts, liposuction, breast reduction e denti nuovi. Il tutto filmato dalle telecamere dell'emittente tedesca RTL che dal 6 luglio 2008, per 4 speciali ne mostrerà le operazioni nel docu-reality "
Aus alt mach neu: Brigitte Nielsen in der Promi-Beautyklinik ".