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- Birth nameHelen Mary Boyd
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- Jenny Boyd (b. November 8, 1947) is an English author and clinical consultant and former model.
She was born as Helen Mary Boyd, and has 2 older siblings (1960s model and rock muse Pattie Boyd and Colin Boyd) and a younger sister, Paula Boyd. Pattie had a favorite childhood doll named Jenny, hence Helen's nickname.
She was a free-lance model in the 1960s, and often accompanied her sister Pattie to modeling jobs.
Boyd was fifteen when she met drummer Mick Fleetwood, who, at the time, was in a band called The Bo Street Runners. From thereon, they began an on-and-off relationship that would last fifteen years. They eventually married in June 1970 and they had two daughters, Lucy and Amy.
She was the inspiration of British folk musician Donovan 's song "Jennifer Juniper", released as a single in March 1968. Also in 1968, Boyd traveled with Donovan, her sister Pattie, The Beatles, sisters Mia Farrow and Prudence Farrow, Mike Love and other friends, to Rishikesh, India, to attend a training session in Transcendental Meditation held by 'Maharishi Mahesh Yogi'. She also worked at the Apple Boutique in London.
She attended UCLA in the late 1980s, earned a PhD in psychology, and became a clinical consultant and author. She co-authored a book about music and psychology, titled Musicians in Tune.- IMDb Mini Biography By: MmMOI
- SpousesIan Wallace(1984 - present)Mick Fleetwood(1970 - 1977) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- Dated Donovan, who wrote the song "Jennifer Juniper" about her.
- Boyd was fifteen when she met drummer Mick Fleetwood, who, at the time, was in a band called The Bo Street Runners and would later co-found Fleetwood Mac. From thereon, they began an on-and-off relationship that would last fifteen years. They eventually married in June 1970 and they had two daughters, Lucy and Amy.
- Younger sister of Pattie Boyd, who nicknamed her "Jenny" after one of her favorite dolls.
- She has been the sister-in-law to both George Harrison and Eric Clapton through their respective marriages to her sister Pattie Boyd from 1966-1977 and 1979-1989 respectively.
- Married Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac fame in 1970. They divorced in 1977, but remarried to help him overcome immigration problems, when Fleetwood Mac relocated from England to California. They re-divorced in 1978, after the move was complete.
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