Source – The model says she has been immersed in the world of comic books
since she was a child. “When you are born and raised in Belgium, where
comics are part of the culture, and you have three older brothers, you have
no other choice,” she explains. Her dream, she says, is to follow in the path of
comic books like Marvel and DC superhero volumes and turn Amber Blake
into a TV show.

Lagardère certainly doesn’t fit the stereotype of a comic book aficionado,

but she wasn’t always the confident bombshell she is today. Lagardère says
she was bullied when she was young. “I’m still shy,” she admits. “It’s just that
I’ve learned how to hide it. Being six feet tall at the age of 15 is not easy. You
get too much attention and you’re not prepared for that.” Nor did jealous
classmates appreciate it when she walked the runway for Giorgio Armani
at 13 in Milan. “It was unusual and quite tough to live with,” she says of her
early success.

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Then Lagardère’s life took another unexpected turn: She fell in love
with media mogul Arnaud Lagardère and took a hiatus from modeling
when she became a mother. She and her husband now have three children.
“Sometimes things don’t happen the way you think,” she says. “When I was
modeling in New York, I wouldn’t have imagined myself six years later with
three beautiful babies and the mother of a comics hero.”

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Lagardère, who shuns dieting and kickboxes to stay fit, waves aside

the idea that moms can’t be sex symbols—just ask her 100,000 Instagram
followers. “Who doesn’t want to seduce?” she asks with a laugh. 

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