Renee Simonsen

She's underrated, and had enough magazine covers to qualify as a supermodel.

Just walk away, Renee.

She had more than 15 minutes.

Renee & John

How long were they married? I thought he was only married to Amanda deCadenet?

I remember when she won the first Supermodel of the World competition.

[quote]Renee Simonsen personified the look of the 80s more than other models at that time.

Fuck you, Renee.

Faces of the 80s

Nope

Actress Terri Farrell was also a very successful model in the early 80's but stopped to pursue acting. She had numerous covers and may have ended up as one of the true super models had she continued. She was with Elite for many years.

Renee made her acting debut as one of the leads in the lesbian psychodrama set in the modeling world, 'Nothing Underneath' in 1985. The movie killed her acting career.

It's interesting how she resembles so many other models like Cindy Crawford, Carol Alt, Kim Alexis and Niki Taylor

She dated John Taylor for 4 years.

She could have done Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue

She aged well.

What a goddess! My older sister was obsessed with her, and John Taylor. What a gorgeous couple. The actress who played Cassandra Rawlins on Y&R always reminded me of her. Stunning women.

I was obsessed with her and her beautiful nose and upturned nordic eyes.

Birthday Party with Renee, John Taylor and Simon Le Bon

Meh. There was only one Rene Supermodel.

The models were so much prettier in the 80's

R19 Meh she's an inferior model

Her daughter is a model too

She was never married to John Taylor.

[quote]r19 Meh. There was only one Rene Supermodel.

Rene Russo was photographer Francesco Scavullo's favorite model from that era. He used her constantly.

He even used Russo on the cover of his first book.

Thanks for bringing her up, OP. She was one of my favorites. Ridiculously gorgeous, Danish goddess. Loved her 80’s jewel time looks and makeup.

Didn’t know she dated one of my all time crushes, John Taylor. What gorgeous babies they would have made! I would be more jealous but he is a Gemini—definitely would not work for me as a Scorpio!

I'm not as familiar with her as other top models from the 80s.

It’s odd how she looks so much prettier in the casual pic at R4.

yeah, the 80's was an especially over the top and tacky decade so her modeling pics reflected that r29.

She looks good

I love that bday photo. Encapsulates the 80s. Banal settings with interesting people. Now it's all great interiors, boring people.

Scavullo also worked with Brooke Shields a lot, who was not that interesting when she aged out of her teen years.

She really favors Linda E in the photo at R28

She was on a lot of magazine covers.

Angelina Jolie copied her look

Hiding out in a clothes hamper

That was definitely the type of face valued in the ‘80s.

No Suzy Parker she.

Sorry, Renee, I don't remember you, lovely as you are.

God, we had to shake our big shoulders hard in the eighties.

She was in Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

She was boring as fuck

She was no Helena Christensen!

I remember her face but didn't pay enough attention to her at the time to recall her name. I was surprised she has so many covers!

Anyone who makes a list of the ' 80s most popular models and neglects to put Paulina P. on that list is just wrong.

John Taylor was the cutest of Duran Duran, by far.

She photographed really well professionally, but in real life looked more basic than some of her supermodel peers of the time. Example: the photo R4 posted. Helena Christensen or Yasmin Le Bon she wasn't.

You might think she's boring or basic, but she commandeered John Taylor's erection for four years during the Duran Duran'peak 80s fame.

Like that is impressive r46!

Nightly face-diving into the unwashed acrid filth of Keith Richard's ashtray-dumpster crotch is not preferable to John Taylor in the 80s.

Fuck you r48

I was smokin hot back in the day

R48 not really

Keith Richards was never hot

I think she’s boring looking too. She’s gorgeous. But she’s no Gia.

She aged better than Gia.

Renee was gorgeous in these photos. I checked out her insta when this thread was posted....she looks way different, as if she got bad cheek implants or something. She's very hippie-Nordic woman looking. She hasn't retained anything of her old looks. A shame.

Time's a bitch

She's fine (for a model, meaning she's more beautiful than 99% of the population, of course) ... but she's not very unique or special, to my eyes.

There were other supermodels in the 80s who didn't necessarily look unique or special, like Elle Macpherson, Jill Goodacre. , Cheryl Tiegs Rachel Hunter, Carol Alt, Veronica Webb.

Intense eyes

I LOVE her tiny little eyes! It's good they're so tiny because that way they don't draw attention from her big sensual rubberized mouth.

Renee doing Linda before Linda

No Evelyn Kuhn she.

She was soooo the Eileen Ford type for the 80's. Eileen worshipped all the Danish etc beauties.

I never found her pretty . Cute and impish but not beautiful.

She's compared to Helena Christensen because they're both Danish, but with her Covergirl contract and All-American looks, she's more similar to Niki Taylor and Kim Alexis.

[quote]Renee Simonsen personified the look of the 80s more than other models at that time.

If she really did you wouldn't have to ask:

[quote]Do you remember Renee?

Renee, Paulina, Carol Alt, Joan Severance

Workin It

Big hair alert

With *that* bone structure, combined with height and good posture, she will always be beautiful.

She did personify the look of the 80s model, in the same way Niki Taylor did in the 90s. And both of them resembled other top models at that time.

She and Carol Alt traveled a lot together modeling.

Renee and Cindy Crawford

Didn’t she give up her modeling career after getting gang raped?

She became an outspoken feminist who would crash fashion shows and pageants saying that they are demeaning to women? Once she showed up to a fashion show wearing meat and a shaved head. I think that it was her.

Modeling with Christy Turlington

[quote]r58 I̶n̶t̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ small eyes

fixed that for you

R75 no

I think that was the divine Karen Mulder, R73.

[quote]r57 There were other supermodels in the 80s who didn't necessarily look unique or special, like ... Veronica Webb.

??

You're weird.

R78 are you in third grade?

[quote]r73 Didn’t she give up her modeling career after getting gang raped? She became an outspoken feminist who would crash fashion shows and pageants saying that they are demeaning to women? Once she showed up to a fashion show wearing meat and a shaved head.

That was the Sports Illustrated covergirl from 1974, Ann Simonton.

Simonton and her meat dress being escorted from the Miss California pageant in 1982:

Sadly, I've already used up my daily allotment of "SAD!" posts.

She was always on the cover of Mademoiselle.

Renee, Christy Turlington and Iman

Scrolling through this thread made me realize how dated the idea of the supermodel is. Now the celebrity comes first then the “modelling” career, rather than vice versa.

That you didn’t have to be a rich kid or a Russian hooker to be able to make a living at it and become famous in your own right. Its a whole world that seems gone, the world of pure fashion. I don’t know if I’m explaining myself correctly, but it feels like a dead and dying world, like the old music business.

Yes. She was absolutely gorgeous.

Veronica Webb was on very few magazine covers.

I fully support a Biden-Simonsen ticket.

R55, I think that picture of her in middle-age is lovely. Still a gorgeous woman.

She is, R89, but it must sting to lose your youth and sex appeal when you're gorgeous and a top model. Sorry, just the reality. I always remember a pretty friend who told me that men stopped looking at her when she hit 50. It's like suddenly you're invisible. It sucks big time.

Fashion Television interview

groupie

She won Face of the 80s in 1982.

She seems more intelligent than I expected in the R91 vid.

Her image is pretty bland, but at least she was smart enough to get out before she [italic]aged[/italic] out, which is always kind of tragic.

I hated her because John Taylor was MY man! They were never married.

Her face embodies so many 80s models.

here she is now

more renee. nordic women age very badly.

R98 she does not look bad in that photo

She's still a pretty woman but has not aged well. The skin looks leathery. Prob spent too much time in the sun.

I hated her with a heat of a thousand suns. Bitch had John Taylor for a while.

R90: Better to have had your place in the sun for a few decades and lose it than to never have had it at all.

She got out before heroin came onto the scene.

Doing the lookalike thing before Brad Pitt and everyone he dated

She reminds me of Niki Taylor

John Taylor is downright unattractive when next to her in R104.

I would rather see her in group model photos than Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell.

She was a knockout. Wow.

Hotter than Kendall Jenner

This country needs a Marianne Williamson / Renee Simonsen Democratic ticket

[quote]She is, [R89], but it must sting to lose your youth and sex appeal when you're gorgeous and a top model. Sorry, just the reality. I always remember a pretty friend who told me that men stopped looking at her when she hit 50. It's like suddenly you're invisible. It sucks big time.

Well no, not really. Many beautiful older women tell me it is great they are no longer stared at, or hot on, by men. Being hit on by older men when you are younger is exhausting and bothersome. Young women don't like older men (15 years or more) ...no matter what DLers think.

if you are fan of hers check her italian movies out: Nothing Underneath and Via Montenapoleone (also starring Carol Alt). Two cult movies.

She can make a windshield reflector look good.

Roxy Music:The Atlantic Years

Renee and her older sister lived on an Israeli Kibbutz for 3 months.

No, who gives a fuck. This place is full of sad fuckers who can only relate to the time they themselves were young and fuckable. Move on with your own life instead of moaning about how nothing is as good as when you were young. It wasn't the best or better. Just relevant to the time it was. So sad. What it really comes down to is your pissed off that nobody wants to fuck you anymore, But by that you mean only the gorgeous 25 year olds you only look at /want. Stop living in the past. It's gone. All you have is right now.

No, who gives a fuck. This place is full of sad fuckers who can only relate to the time they themselves were young and fuckable. Move on with your own life instead of moaning about how nothing is as good as when you were young. It wasn't the best or better. Just relevant to the time it was. So sad. What it really comes down to is your pissed off that nobody wants to fuck you anymore, But by that you mean only the gorgeous 25 year olds you only look at /want. Stop living in the past. It's gone. All you have is right now.

R116 R117 another sad and lonely Saturday night, huh?

With Christy Turlington in Russia