His late mother, Countess Christina Paolozzi Bellin, was a model with
Wilhelmina Models in the 1960s, and a nude picture of her by
Richard Avedon has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His father, a
plastic surgeon, is the director of CosMedica, the Plastic Surgery
Center of New York, and he is the author of "Dr. Bellin's Beautiful You
Book" (Prentice Hall, 1980).