Christina Bellin
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Christina P. Bellin (1939 – 27 April 1988, New York City) was an Italian-born American model and an international social figure who was born in New York City. Her full name was Maria Christina Orfea Paolozzi di Chiusi Bellin.[1][2][3]
Bellin was the daughter of Alice "Alicia" Orpha Spaulding[4][5][6] (12 May 1917, Boston – 13 April 2002, New York City),[7][5] a United Fruit Company heiress, and Count Lorenzo Paolozzi,[8][4][7] a Roman aristocrat. She grew up at the Villa Paolozzi in Rome, Italy (1949–1952) and was educated in Switzerland and at the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, USA.[3]
Photographer's model
Bellin began modeling at the age of 17. She posed for a topless photograph taken by Richard Avedon in Harper's Bazaar in 1962.[9] The picture caused a sensation because at the time fashion magazines did not publish unclothed figures.[3]