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Bella Freud
Born
Isobel Lucia Freud[1]

(1961-04-17) 17 April 1961 (age 63)
London, England
OccupationFashion Designer
Spouse
(m. 2001)
Children1
Parent(s)Lucian Freud
Bernardine Coverley
Relatives

Isobel Lucia Freud (born 17 April 1961), better known as Bella Freud, is a London-based fashion designer.

Life and career

Freud was born in London, England. She is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and artist Lucian Freud, and the great-granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Her maternal grandparents were practicing Roman Catholics of Irish descent, but her mother was no longer observant, while her father's family were Jewish atheists. She identifies as Jewish.[2][3]

Her only full sibling is her sister, writer Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippie childhood in Morocco, Hideous Kinky.

Freud is a fashion designer.[4] She is married to journalist James Fox, with whom she has one child.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  2. ^ "The NS Interview: Bella Freud, designer and campaigner". The New Statesman. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Bernardine Freud obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Bella Freud". Bella Freud. Retrieved 7 January 2020.