Janina Päivänsäde Fry (née Frostell) (born 12 November 1973 in
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...
) is Finnish pop singer and model. She hosted the show ''Bella'' on Finnish television channel
Nelonen
Nelonen () is a Finnish commercial television channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1990 on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho), and changed its name first to PTV4. On June 1, 1997, the channel expand ...
.
Her breakthrough was winning the "Maiden of Finland" beauty pageant in 1993 and getting to the semi-finals in
Miss World the same year.
She also has a singing career, although her records have not been particularly successful, despite efforts by her record company
Sony BMG.
Fry gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Sophia on March 2007. The father of the child is Mark Fry,
[ the director of marketing at Sony BMG in Finland. They had been dating for several years before marrying in the summer of 2007. In 2010 she gave birth to their second child Brandon. The family lived in ]Espoo
Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...
, Finland, before they moved to Stockholm, Sweden, in 2021.
Discography
* ''House of Joy'' (1999) (as Janina)
* ''Impossible Love'' (2003)
Singles
* ''A Little Change (Gonna Do It)'' (1998)
* ''Love Is / No One But You'' (1999)
* ''What Goes Around'' (1999)
* ''Like a Hurricane'' (2001)
* ''I'll Save My Tears'' (2002)
* ''Impossible Love'' (2003)
* ''Insanity (Why It Always Happens to Me)'' (2003)
* ''Honey Love'' (2003)
* ''Call Me'' (2003)
References
External links
''Bella'' show homepage
1973 births
Living people
Swedish-speaking Finns
Finnish female models
Miss World 1993 delegates
Finnish expatriates in Sweden
Models from Helsinki
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