Ibi Makienok Biography

Ibi Katrine Makienok (born Ibi Katrine Stving, 2 February 1975, in Aarhus) is a Danish model, actress, television presenter and singer.

Ibi Makienok has previously been a ballet dancer at the Aarhus Ballet Academy in Aarhus. After graduating from Randers State College in 1995, she studied at the actress at Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Hollywood. She has also been a photo model, travel writer for Jyllands-Posten, designer assistant in Los Angeles, and author of books on blood-type cooking. She participated in the short-lived girls group Milc, who in 2002 released the single "Feel So Good". In recent years, she has mainly focused on writing songs and producing music. From 2005 to 2007 she spent three seasons of Paradise Hotel on TV3. In that connection she sang the title song "My Paradise" for the third season in 2007. She has, among others, participated in the film Portland by Niels Arden Oplev and the Canadian film Aurum by James Barclay. Ibi hosted Aquadorable 2009 - Natural Beauty Contest. Ibi also hosted Boligprogrammet Velkommen Hjem Seasons 1 and 2 and Brystgalla 2009, 2010 and 2011, "nderne Vender Tilbage" Seasons 1 and 2, as well as "4 Bryllupper" - also on TV3.

In 2011, she took the jump from TV3 to TV2, where she first made Weekend Weekend and since Go' Morgen Danmark and the programme "Hvem Bor Hvor". In 2012 she was editor-in-chief at Miinto.dk and received an Entrepreneurship Award for Best Marketing Campaign in 2013. Ibi also received the award as Best Female TV Host in 2013.

Private life

From 1998 to 2003, Ibi Stving was the girlfriend of Ren Dif, whom she also got engaged with. In September 2003, Ren Dif was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment for violence against her. Later she formed a couple with singer Alex Ambrose from 2005 to 2007. In 2007 she became the girlfriend of football player Tobias Grahn, whom she got her son Anakin (2008) with. The couple went apart in August 2009. Ibi Stving became the girlfriend of Simon Makienok in 2013, who plays football for the English club Charlton Atheltic in 2013 but is currently loaned to Preston at the moment. The couple married on 6 September 2014 in the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen.