Ah, Sweden. We love Sweden. The beautiful women, the long nights, the, er, the saunas... um... Abba... you know what, we know nothing about Sweden. As we discovered after our chat with their resident model and all-round dream woman Nathalie Bomgren...

What are you up to?

I’ve just got back from three months in New York, doing some modelling: I’ve got a three-year visa for America now. I want to do some work in Miami, they’re very sporty there.

What’s Sweden like? Is everyone there as beautiful as everyone thinks?

Of course! No... not everyone, but there’s a few. Most people in Sweden are very health conscious.

Is everyone depressed? That’s the other national stereotype.

I’ve heard that, but I don’t think it’s true. I think that’s more the north of Sweden. It’s a big country: in the south of Sweden, it doesn’t get dark all winter. We’re quite funny in our part of Sweden, in Gothenburg.

What’s your favourite Swedish joke?

I’m really bad at jokes in English. I could tell you a joke in Swedish, but you wouldn’t understand it!

What’s your favourite Abba song?

That’s such a silly question! I’ve never thought about it... I quite like ‘The Winner Takes It All’.

The other Swedish cliché is saunas...

No! I actually said earlier, ‘I bet they’ll ask about saunas!’ Saunas are not that common in Sweden! They have them in Finland. I don’t know anyone who goes to a sauna. It’s like saying everyone in Sweden is called Inga and eats meatballs.

There goes our dream of meeting Inga the meatball-seller in a sauna. What’s your party trick?

Getting everyone very drunk. I’m an expert at mixing cocktails.

How would you get us drunk?

I’d make you an Espresso Martini. It’s espresso, vanilla vodka, Kahlua and a bit of milk. It’s really good, you have to try it.

We certainly will. What’s the worst place you’ve ever done a photoshoot?

I did a shoot for ski-wear in South Africa – the sand is white so it looks like snow, but it was 40ºC and I was wearing the whole lot – gloves, hat, everything – and I had to pretend to ski. It was the worst experience. I prefer freezing to death in swimwear on a snowy mountain.

Why don’t they just do it the other way round?

You would have thought they would, wouldn’t you?

What’s cooler – a killer whale fighting a great white shark, or two vampires having sex?

...what was fighting the shark?

A killer whale.

OK, that’s cooler than a sauna.

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