Jenna de Rosnay

Jenna de Rosnay, born Jenna Severson on 7 March 1963, is an American windsurfer, fashion designer and model. From 1982 she broke the World Speedsailing Record for women's windsurfing over 500 metres seven times, first at the speed trials in Weymouth off the Isle of Portland in the United Kingdom, and in 2010 she was inducted into the Speedsailing Hall of Fame. Born in California and raised in Hawaii and Tahiti, she is the daughter of John Severson, the photographer, film director and founder of Surfer magazine. In 1988 she began designing swimwear for Huit and later wetsuits for Neil Pryde. She married the French long-distance windsurfer and photographer Arnaud de Rosnay in 1981; he disappeared at sea in 1984 while trying to windsurf from China to Taiwan, and the couple's daughter is the artist and designer Alizé de Rosnay. She later married the recording executive Emmanuel de Buretel, with whom she has three daughters.