Alice Minna Irmeli Herbst (born April 13, 1993) is a Swedish former fashion model, best known for winning the

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of ''

Sweden's Next Top Model ''Top Model Sverige'' ( en, Top Model Sweden) was a Swedish reality television show based on '' America's Next Top Model''. It was broadcast on TV3 in Sweden. The first season, ''Top Model Stockholm'' (abbreviated as ''Sthlm''), aired in 2007 and ...

'' in 2012. She is the cousin of

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model

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. Herbst gave up modeling in August 2012 after discovering the poor work ethics of the industry.

Artwork

Herbst started studying art at the age of 21 and is now a full time artist. Her work is primarily figurative and has been described by The Art Gorgeous magazine as "depicting beautiful women being staged in a vintaged manner – imagine a kind of

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movie meets

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." After graduating from the

Gerlesborg School of Fine Art The Gerlesborg School of Fine Art ( sv, Gerlesborgsskolan) is an art school located in the village of Gerlesborg, south of Hamburgsund in Tanum Municipality, Bohuslän, Sweden. The school also has a branch in Stockholm and holds courses in Pro ...

she has developed her

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figurative style with influences from both

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and the

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. She describes her paintings as "Parts of stories that could be self-experienced or inspired by daily observations."

Personal life

According to ''

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'', Herbst had

body dysmorphic disorder Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and therefore warrants exceptional meas ...

as a teenager.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Herbst, Alice Swedish female models 1993 births Living people Next Top Model winners 21st-century Swedish painters