Jenny Boyd

About

Helen Mary “Jenny” Boyd (born 1 November 1947) is an English former model, the younger sister of 1960s model and photographer Pattie Boyd. She quit her modelling career in the 1960s after discovering Transcendental Meditation, stating that modelling was “a waste of her time”. She later managed an addiction treatment centre and wrote two books.

Helen Mary Boyd was born in Guildford, Surrey, England in November 1947 to Diana Frances Boyd (née Drysdale) and Colin “Jock” Ian Langdon Boyd, a pilot.
She was a freelance model in the 1960s, and often accompanied her sister Pattie to modelling jobs. Through Pattie’s relationship with George Harrison, she came to know the Beatles, various bands that included Eric Clapton, and other major British rock acts. As a rock star muse, Boyd inspired Donovan (“Jennifer Juniper”) and Mick Fleetwood to write songs about her.
From December 1967, she worked at the Beatles’ short-lived retail venture, Apple Boutique, in London. Early the following year, she accompanied Pattie and Harrison on the band’s visit to Rishikesh in India, where they studied Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In July 1968, she and Pattie…