She is the model in the 2006 adverts for Lacoste Inspiration perfume. She has appeared on the covers of the magazines: Costume, Marie Claire, ELLE, Madame, and Eurowoman. Maria is represented by Model Talent Agencies as Unique Models, Luoisa Models, Storm Models, Stockholmgruppen, Nest Model Company in New York.
Maria was photographed for advertisements foe Agatha, Anna Club by La Peria, Bringer Christiensen, Bruan, Etam, Evita Peroni, Filippa, K, Giorgio Armani, Gosad, Guerlain Issima, InWear, Kookai, Lacoste Inspiration, La Redoute, La Roche – Posay, Paco Rabanne “Ultarviolet” fragrance, Pilgrim, Rutzou, Sephora, Sonia Rykiel Lingerie.
Maria was cover on Danish magazines Eurowoman, Cover magazine, Costume, Cover, Cosume, Eurowoman France Magazines - “Madame Figgaro”, Elle “Marie Claire”.
Her modeling career took off when she, at 16, won a modeling contest. Almost 500 girls entered the contest held by Divamodels in Århus. The prize was a 10-day trip to New York. Maria was in the 10th grade and was offered a contract with Divamodels, but she decided to pursue a high school degree. But after a year she took time off to try her luck as a model.
"Sweets" and chips doesn't stay on Maria. She weighs 52 kg and is 177 cm tall, and she eats all to get some more meat on her body. She loves to exercise, especially outdoors. She'd like to have more muscles, but it's in her genes to be thin, just like her mother, grandmother and older sister. She's got long strawberry blonde hair and clear blue eyes. Her lips are full and her skin is fair. A Scandinavian look that is sought after in Tokyo, New York, Paris, Barcelona and Milan.
When she's working, the agencies in these cities become her home base. She takes care of transports, grocery shopping, cooking and washing herself. She lives with other models.
"The girls can be sweet, but they can also be completely annoying. Then I think about how it's only temporary and that I'm soon going home again. We pay for all our expenses ourselves, so should I choose to ride in a limo, stay at expensive hotels, drink champagne and eat caviar I'll have to pay for it myself", Maria says and thereby challenges the myth of the glamorous model life.
"Modeling is hard work. The clients can pick and choose from numerous models, and to get jobsyou go from casting to casting. Up to 14 on the same day."
"In Milan I went to a casting for the Giorgio Armani show. It starts at 7 in the morning. I was there half an hour early, and there were already 200 girls in line waiting. The actual casting takes less than two minutes. Everyone gets the same shirt on and we walk for them, but you're a bit stiff when you've been waiting for hours", she says.
