Nena von Schlebrügge

Birgitte Caroline 'Nena' von Schlebrügge (born 1941) was a fashion model in the 1950s and 1960s and is now a psychotherapist. She is the mother of actress Uma Thurman. She was born in Mexico City in 1941, the daughter of a Swedish mother, Birgit Holmquist, and a German father, Friedrich Karl Johannes, Baron von Schlebrügge. Her mother served as the model for a 1930 statue of a nude woman that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk in Sweden. She marrie... more

Birgitte Caroline 'Nena' von Schlebrügge (born 1941) was a fashion model in the 1950s and 1960s and is now a psychotherapist. She is the mother of actress Uma Thurman. She was born in Mexico City in 1941, the daughter of a Swedish mother, Birgit Holmquist, and a German father, Friedrich Karl Johannes, Baron von Schlebrügge. Her mother served as the model for a 1930 statue of a nude woman that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk in Sweden. She married LSD guru Timothy Leary in 1964. They were married in Millbrook, New York, at the Hitchcock house where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic experiments. Present at the wedding was Monte Rock III (hairdresser & singer at Trudy Heller's), Nena's brother Bjorn (also known as the "Baron"), Nick Proferes, Jim Desmond, Charles Mingus, D.A. Pennebaker (who documented the event in his short film You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You), scores of models, and more. Von Schlebrügge divorced Leary in 1965. In 1967, she married Tibetan-Buddhist... less