| Jade Foret | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 26, 1990 |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Hair color | brown |
| Eye color | blue |
| Measurements | 86-62-89cm / 34-24.5-35"[1] |
| Dress size | 34 EU / 4 US |
| Shoe size | 40 EU / 8 US |
| Agency | Iconic Management |
Jade Foret (or Jade Forest) (born on November 26, 1990) is a Belgian model whose family roots are in Liège.[2] She is the life partner of French businessman Arnaud Lagardère.[3] A brunette with blue eyes, she is 1,82 m tall.[4]
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She is the daughter of Maïté Forest, the fourth child of a family of five.[2] She started modelling at the young age of 12[5] 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[6] At the same age, she went on the catwalk for Armani in Italy.[7]
When she was 16 she assisted SOS Children's Villages in Morocco.[7]
In 2009, she had a short and stormy liaison with soccer player Émile Mpenza,[8] which concluded bitterly.[9] She continued working as a top model and decided to move to New York. She joined the agency One Management.[10] She also tried singing and played bit parts in films and on television.
In 2010 she met businessman Arnaud Lagardère and became his partner.[3] They both appeared in a short making-of of a photo shoot in Lagardère's country residence in Rambouillet[11] in July 2011 for the Belgian daily Le Soir.[12] This video became an instant internet phenomenon.[2] It also led some employees from the industrial conglomerate of Arnaud Lagardère to challenge his ability to manage the group.[13]