Name |
Jade Foret |
Height |
6 ft |
Naionality |
Belgian |
Date of Birth |
26-September-1990 |
Place of Birth |
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Famous for |
Acting |
Jade Foret is a Belgian model whose family roots are in Liege. She is the life partner of French businessman Arnaud Lagardère. A brunette with blue eyes, she is 1,82 m tall. She is the daughter of Maite Forest, the fourth child of a family of five. She started modelling at the young age of 12 with the Newmodels agency in 2003. At age 13, in 2004, she became famous in Belgium for a backless picture which was displayed as a gigantic poster for the Levis paint brand (100 m by 20) on the Madou Plaza Tower in Brussels At the same age, she went on the catwalk for Armani in Italy. When she was 16 she assisted SOS Children's Villages in Morocco. In 2009, she had a short and stormy liaison with soccer player Emile Mpenza, which concluded bitterly.
She continued working as a top model and decided to move to New York. She joined the agency One Management. She also tried singing and played bit parts in films and on television. In 2010 she met businessman Arnaud Lagardere and became his partner. They both appeared in a short making-of of a photo shoot in Lagardere's country residence in Rambouillet in July 2011 for the Belgian daily Le Soir. This video became an instant internet phenomenon. It also led some employees from the industrial conglomerate of Arnaud Lagardere to challenge his ability to manage the group. In May 2012 Arnaud Lagardere confirmed that the couple will marry soon and was expecting a baby in September 2012[14]. The baby girl, Liva, was born on September 16 2012.