Jade Foret
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Jade Foret (born on November 26, 1990) is a Belgian model whose family roots are in Liège
Liège
Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

. She is the life partner of French businessman Arnaud Lagardère
Arnaud Lagardère
Arnaud Lagardère, born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, on March 18, 1961, is the son of Jean-Luc Lagardère, the former chairman of Matra and Hachette...

. A brunette with blue eyes, she is 1,82 m tall.

Biography

She is the daughter of Maïté 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
Halterneck
Halterneck is a style of strap which holds up women's clothing which features a single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, and which enables most of the wearer's back to be uncovered...

 picture which was displayed as a gigantic poster for the Levis paint brand (100 m by 20) on the Madou Plaza Tower
Madou Plaza Tower
Madou Plaza Tower is a high-rise building in Brussels . It was built in 1965 and renovated between 2002 and 2006 and taken over by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture...

 in Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

 At the same age, she went on the catwalk for Armani in Italy.

When she was 16 she assisted SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. It was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria...

 in Morocco.

In 2009, she had a short and stormy liaison with soccer player Émile Mpenza
Émile Mpenza
Eka Basunga Lokonda "Émile" Mpenza is a Belgian footballer who plays for Neftchi Baku as a striker. He has been capped at international level by Belgium. His older brother, Mbo, was also a footballer who represented Belgium....

, which concluded bitterly. She continued working as a top model and decided to move to New York. She joined the agency One Management
One Management
-History:One Management was founded in 2002 by Scott Lipps. Lipps envisioned combining "Fashion, Film, Music and Celebrity". The agency initially started as a model management/fashion house but became a full fledged entertainment company in 2006...

. She also tried singing and played bit parts in films and on television.

In 2010 she met businessman Arnaud Lagardère and became his partner. They both appeared in a short making-of
Making-of
In cinema, a making-of, also known as behind-the-scenes, is a documentary film that features the production of a film or television program...

 of a photo shoot in Lagardère's country residence in Rambouillet
Rambouillet
Rambouillet is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.It is located in the suburbs of Paris southwest from the center...

 in July 2011 for the Belgian daily Le Soir
Le Soir
Le Soir is a Berliner Format Belgian newspaper. Le Soir was founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel. It is the most popular Francophone newspaper in Belgium, and considered a newspaper of record.-Editorial stance:...

. This video became an instant internet phenomenon. It also led some employees from the industrial conglomerate of Arnaud Lagardère to challenge his ability to manage the group.

Filmography

  • Louis la Brocante - "Louis et la belle brocante" (2008) : girl at the bar
  • Sans laisser de traces (2010) : Russian girl

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