Wilhelmina Cooper - one of the most famous and expensive models of its time. Known also due to its own model agency. She died suddenly from cancer at the age of forty.
Her childhood and youth
The future model was born May 1, 1939in Kulemborg, Gelderland, the Netherlands. In the fashion industry, she was known as Wilhelmina Cooper, while her close ones simply called her Willy. The happy family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when the girl was about 14 years old. Thanks to her beautiful Dutch appearance, she achieved success in the modeling field. She began her career in 1957. A year later, shortly before graduation, she came to the casting at the Models Bureau and was selected.
Throughout her teens she waspuzzled overweight. With her height of 1 m 74 cm, she weighed 63 kg instead of an enviable 53 kg. With her appearance, Wilhelmina Cooper resembled one of the world-famous supermodels of the time, Susie Parker, which certainly played a role in the development of the girl. With the appearance of her photographs in the catalogs, sales of the companies whose products she represented began to grow.
Cooper Wilhelmina: a biography. Model that has become the standard of beauty
In 1959, impressed by the success of the young model,the chief of the Models Bureau decides to send her pictures to a trade show in Chicago, where she is awarded the title Miss West Berlin. After such a triumph, Wilhelmina was recommended to move to New York, which was famous for its model agencies and the beauty industry as a whole. Upon arrival there, she meets Eileen and Jerry Ford from Ford Models. There was a warm relationship between them, but Eileen was not able to offer her a job at the agency, as the weight of the model did not meet the standards of that time. Saddened by this fact, Wilhelmina Cooper decides to move to Europe, where he very soon gets a job in Germany and London. The girl quickly gained momentum and very soon was able to decorate with her face the cover of the famous magazine L "Officiel. The shooting took place in Algeria, where the model posed in clothes from Madame Gre against the background of endless sands of the Sahara.
After such a significant triumph, she still managessign a contract with Ford Models. Success was not long in coming. Very soon, Cooper Wilhelmina became one of the most famous, popular and highly paid models of its time. Her face was known to almost everyone. In the entire history of her professional activities, she appeared on the covers of popular magazines more than 255 times. She is She was a happy owner of a very elegant, beautiful appearance, which allowed her to make her debut in fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper "s Bazaar. In the first, she managed to appear about 28 times.
One of the few models that has an impressivea feminine figure, - such was Cooper Wilhelmina. Her biography, unlike most other models, has fewer black spots. With her high, well-defined cheekbones, deep, languid eyes and a shock of beautifully folded dark hair, she represented a representative of the eternal classics - an aristocratic lady, whose beauty admirers continue to admire to this day.
"Wilhelmina Models"
It combined external and internal beauty,sharp mind and strong character. These qualities allowed her to open her model agency called "Wilhelmina Models" and become famous as a shark of the modeling business. The woman was also characterized by outstanding performance and rare enterprise. Cooper Wilhelmina showed herself to be a very competent and experienced model agent, possessing excellent instinct and intuition for hidden young talents and an enviable ability to competently carry out advertising campaigns. Her agency still enjoys world-wide popularity and maintains a brilliant reputation.
Family model
The girl married in 1965 for the famousproducer of the time - Bruce Cooper. So they went all their lives hand in hand, led joint business, supported each other in especially unpleasant moments and raised beautiful children - daughter Melissa and son Jason. Bruce helped her establish a model agency, which turned out to be very profitable, pointed out his wife’s shortcomings and instilled in her the belief that she could cope with any tasks that would stand in her way.
Acquaintance with Dzheya Karanji and a film about the history of their friendship
Models such as Iman and Gia Karanji, for their successful career owe it to this woman.
In the movie "Gia" the role of Vigelmina performed by the actressFei Dunaway. The picture tells the story of the model of Jia Karanji, which Wilhelmina Cooper literally raised, recognizing the future world-famous model in the girl. And not mistaken. Wilhelmina was just one minute to understand - this girl would conquer the whole world. With the help of a model business that already knew far and wide, Jia was able to climb to the top much faster than her competitors. Wilhelmina Cooper and Jia Carangi were very close. Therefore, the death of Willie was for the young model a real shock, on the basis of which she became interested in drugs.
Finally
This woman was rightly considered the most famous andhighly paid model of their time. Wilhelmina Models is still presented as one of the most prestigious agencies in the world. The first to succeed in developing two careers at the same time, the hostess of the modeling agency and fashion model who quickly gained her popularity, was Cooper Wilhelmina. The biography of the model describes the entire long period of its formation as a person first of all. She was able to compete with such famous fashion models of that time as Twiggy, Veruschka and Gene Shrimpton.
She knew how to succeed, and went confidentsteps to your goal. What this unique woman could not bargain for is life itself. Perhaps we really have to pay for everything? At the end of 1970, Miss Cooper was diagnosed with cancer, and she left this life at the age of 40. Strength of spirit did not allow the woman to fall into depression, and almost to the very end of Wilhelmina Cooper continued to work tirelessly, enjoy life, give others a smile and just live. Probably, this star was too bright, it radiated too much light - and burned out.
