From a privileged European background, Karin Holstein develops psoriasis as a child. While studying in Paris, she meets Jean-Louis, a plastic surgeon thirty years her senior, with whom she falls deeply in love. He helps to shape her modeling career, and although he is more important to her than any career, she rearranges her life to please him until tragedy ends their relationship. Her modeling career takes over her life as she becomes an international cover girl, in spite of her disfiguring skin disease. Follow her through ...
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From a privileged European background, Karin Holstein develops psoriasis as a child. While studying in Paris, she meets Jean-Louis, a plastic surgeon thirty years her senior, with whom she falls deeply in love. He helps to shape her modeling career, and although he is more important to her than any career, she rearranges her life to please him until tragedy ends their relationship. Her modeling career takes over her life as she becomes an international cover girl, in spite of her disfiguring skin disease. Follow her through the height of her career, the jet-set life in Europe, between Paris, London, Monte Carlo, St. Tropez, and St. Moritz; a disastrous marriage; her breakdown; and a new life in the USA. In spite of years of hardship and developing arthritis, she now faces life through her newfound faith and actively supports the National Psoriasis Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation.
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