Ibi Katrine Makienok (

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Støving, born 2 February 1975) is a Danish model, actress, television presenter, and singer.

Career

She was previously a

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at the Aarhus Ballet Academy. After graduating from Randers State College in 1995, she studied at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in

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. She has also been a photo model, a travel writer for ''

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. She has, among others, appeared in the films ''

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'' by

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and ''Aurum'' by James Barclay. In 2011, Makienok transferred from TV3 to TV2, where she worked on ''Weekend Weekend'', as well as '' GO' Morgen Danmark'' and ''Hvem Bor Hvor''. In 2012, she was editor-in-chief at Miinto.dk and received an Entrepreneurship Award for Best Marketing Campaign in 2013. She also received the award for Best Female TV Host in 2013. In February 2019, Makienok hosted the controversial TV show ''Date mig nøgen'' (Date me naked), the Danish version of the British dating game show '' Naked Attraction''.

Personal life

From 1998 to 2003, Ibi Støving dated René Dif, to whom she was engaged. In September 2003, Dif was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment for domestic violence. Støving later dated singer Alex Ambrose, from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, she began seeing football player

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, with whom she had a son, Anakin, in 2008. The couple split in August 2009. Støving started dating footballer Simon Makienok in 2013. The couple married on 6 September 2014 in the

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in Copenhagen. They divorced in 2019.

References

External links

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Ibi Makienok
on the Danish Film Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Makienok, Ibi 1975 births Living people 21st-century Danish women singers Danish female models Singers from Aarhus Danish women television presenters