Brigitta Callens (born 28 September 1980 in
Oudenaarde,
East Flanders,
Belgium) was
Miss Belgium 1999 and her country's representative to
Miss World 1999.

Brigitta "Gitta"
Callens was born in Oudenaarde, a small town in the
Flemish Ardennes. She was a ballerina for 8 years when she was a young girl.
She spent her childhood in
Oudenaarde and moved to
Ghent, during her teens to study languages.
After she won the Miss Belgium contest in 1999 at the age of 18, she became a successful international model and signed a contract with
Stafford Miller to lend her face for the Sensodyne International campaign. She worked long time as a model and make-up artist in the fashion city Antwerp and created her own line of jewelry, named AKINA, which is the Japanese name for the first spring flower. Later on, she started photograph
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She practices Raja Yoga and studied in India (Ashram of Sri Aurobindo & Auroville), Thailand, Indonesia, New York, Paris and London. She was a student at the European Academy for Natural Healthcare, and trains Raja Yoga & Vedanta in her home country. She also is therapist and instructor of the ancient holistic massage-, relaxation- and yoga nidra-therapies.
She runs her own Yoga & Mindstyle Institute
La Maison Pure and works fo
Life Tv a Belgian TV channel about Health and the Quality of Life, where she has a program about Yoga.
External links
Brigitta CallensLa Maison Pure
1980 births
Living people
People from Oudenaarde
Belgian female models
Miss World 1999 delegates
Belgian beauty pageant winners
Miss Belgium winners
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