'I screamed for painkillers!'

  
Meet the latest supermodel baby. As these exclusive pictures show, Helena Christensen is glowing with pride, as she leaves Denmark's National Hospital in Copenhagen with her baby boy. Helena and her partner, actor Norman Reedus, have yet to announce a name for their two-week old son.
  The supermodel-turned-celebrity photographer and magazine executive says that giving birth was a lot of hard work, and has almost made her rethink her decision to have more than one child.
    "I'm exhausted! At one point I screamed for all the painkillers I could get, but in the end I didn't have any. Right now I feel like waiting another 30 or 40 years before having another!" she jokes.
    When she first learned she was pregnant, 30-year-old Helena had declared that her baby would not be an only child, and that marriage was on the cards. "I'd like to have two children of my own and adopt two from Peru," she said. "And I want my wedding to be themed around blue - blue balloons, blue flowers."
    Now that the baby has been born, a wedding is next on Helena and Norman's agenda. Not long after the birth, they announced they would be getting married in Denmark next year.
    "We haven't set a date yet, but we are aiming at a ceremony in 2000," Helena reveals. "My sister Anita is to be wed, soon, and I'm going to be a bridesmaid."
    Although she is taking a break from work, marriage and children will not affect Helena's position as creative director at the US magazine Nylon.
The ex-supermodel gave up her catwalk career for the job, and says that she will take the baby with her on assignments.
    "You can put them in a kangaroo packs," she said before the birth, "and take them with you."

Story: Mardi Boardman

NW Magazine, Australia