In 1999, Ahrens gave birth to her daughter, Isabella Maria Ahrens, in a relationship with
Croatian derivative trader Dragan Banić. In 2001, Ahrens married
investment banker Jost Paffrath. One year later they separated and divorced in 2004. On 12 December 2006, Ahrens married
Patrick Alexander Hubertus Graf von Faber-Castell, born in
Düsseldorf on 4 June 1965, in a civil ceremony in
New York City, New York. Although she has since been called "Countess von Faber-Castell", she continued to call herself Ahrens. The couple met each other at the wedding of
Verona and
Franjo Pooth in
Vienna in September 2005 and were engaged since September 2006. The church wedding took place on 7 July 2007 at the Martin Luther Church in Schloss Stein, in
Stein,
Nuremberg. Ahrens' daughter was adopted by Patrick Graf von Faber-Castell. Their daughter, Lucia Marie Christina, was born in Berlin on 24 March 2007. On 5 November 2012, the couple announced their split "due to different views of life". They divorced in 2015. == References ==