Karen Victoria
Silvstedt (born September 19, 1974 in Skelleftehamn,
Sweden) is a Swedish fashion model and actress.
Biography: Silvstedt was a member of the Swedish
National Ski Team, ranking as high as fourth among her
Olympic teammates in the Super-Giant Slalom. Silvstedt
claims that when she was 16, she competed in a Best Fake
Orgasm contest at a local bar. The contestants were
Silvstedt and 10 guys, and the winner got a brand-new
TV. When she came home, she told her mother she won it
at a game of Bingo.
Silvstedt claims as a sports person she was a bit of a
tom-boy who supposedly had never worn high heels, but
after a shoulder injury ended her skiing career at 16,
her mother and sister secretly entered her into the 1993
Miss Sweden Beauty Pageant. Silvstedt was the first
runner-up in Miss Sweden, and went on to represent
Sweden in the Miss World contest in South Africa,
reaching the final eight contestants. She was then
signed by a Parisian modeling agent and began a career
in high fashion, working for various companies including
Chanel, Christian Dior, Loris Azzaro, Givenchy,
Valentino, and Giorgio Armani.
After being approached by Hugh Hefner, she appeared as a
centerfold in the December 1996 issue of Playboy and was
subsequently named Playmate of the Year in 1997. As a
European, not being aware of the wider distribution and
publicity effect of Playboy, she suddenly broke into the
North American market. She has been featured in
countless magazines, including GQ, Maxim, FHM, Gear and
Nuts, where in 2005 she came second to actress Jennifer
Ellison in a competition to find the Sexiest Blonde in
the World.
Away from Playboy: Like many glamour models and
playmates before her, she is trying to branch out into
acting and business. Silvstedt claims her favorite hobby
is singing, and in 2001 she recorded an album called
Girl On the Run, published by EMI, which went gold in
Sweden with the hit singles, "Hello, Hey" and
"Rocksteady Love".
Silvstedt was already well recognised in the UK when she
took on a new career hosting The Late Show on Virgin
Radio, and as a guest host on the TV show Eurotrash. She
has appeared on the American TV shows Melrose Place and
MTV’s The Real World, and has worked a lot for the
Italian TV hosting several tv shows. She currently
cohosts La Roue de la Fortune, the French version of
Wheel of Fortune on TF1, alongside Christophe
Dechavanne.
Victoria made guest appearances in the Hollywood motion
pictures: Boat Trip, The Independent, BASEketball, and
Out Cold where she played up to her Swedish-Blonde
"Inga" character. Silvstedt is now acting in
lead roles in European films mainly based in Italy, and
taking to the stage in North America
Silvstedt became a spokesmodel for Guess? Jeans,
following in the footsteps of former Guess models, Eva
Herzigova, Anna Nicole Smith, and Shana Zadrick. In
February 2006 she launched her own lingerie range during
London Fashion Week. She is casted to play the female
lead in Carry On London.
Personal life: Silvstedt claims that she speaks
Swedish, English, French, and Italian - plus some
Norwegian and Eskimo-Inuit. (Note that Swedish and
Norwegian are often mutually intelligible languages.)
Silvstedt married WCBS-TV Sports telecaster, Chris
Wragge, in June 2000 at Tuxedo Park Country Club in
Tuxedo, New York. They later separated, and Wragge was
reported in August 2007 to be dating Philadelphia
newscaster Alycia Lane.
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