In short
- The catalogue has one agency in Hellerup: Star Kids, a children's and teen agency for ages 0 to 16, in business since 2014.
- Its application page mentions no registration fee; the agency says a fee is paid for every job and that parents are never obliged to accept one.
- A child under 13 needs a permit from Arbejdstilsynet, from 13 shoots are allowed without one; a second children's agency works in neighbouring Klampenborg, and the main market is Copenhagen.
Star Kids
Hellerup is part of the municipality of Gentofte, directly north of Copenhagen. Of the 32 Danish agencies in our catalogue, one is here, and it works only with children. Denmark has neither a licence for model agencies nor an association of them, so the catalogue lists every business that represents models. We do not vouch for them, and each profile shows what we found, good and bad: fees charged to applicants, the company and its status in the register, and the application rules.
Star Kids calls itself Denmark's most wide-ranging model agency for children and young people. The office is at Strandvejen 58, 1st floor, open Monday to Friday from 9 to 15. The agency is run by the company Star Kids Modelmanagement ApS, CVR 36081740, founded in the Danish company register on 1 September 2014; the register gives a c/o address at Jægersborg Alle 243 in Gentofte and one employee. The site prints no founding year, so the catalogue relies on the register date.
The boards are split by age: boys from 0 to 12, girls from 0 to 12 and young fashion from 13 to 16. The agency says it represents children aged 0 to 16 and can also book whole families and adult models when a client needs a family picture. Parents apply for a child aged 1 to 16 through an online form; children in whom the agency sees potential are invited to a personal interview. The application page stresses that a fee is paid for every job and that parents are never obliged to accept one. A registration, photo or profile fee is not mentioned on that page, which we read on 18 October 2026. The agency's Facebook page carries the line that with it every child model is a star.
Star Kids is not on the signatory list of the Danish Fashion Ethical Charter. For a children's agency that is no mark against it: the charter is written for fashion models from 16 and lets those under 15 work only with children's and teenage clothing, accompanied by an adult. What governs a children's agency is the law rather than the charter.
What parents need to know
A child under 13 may take part in a photo shoot, a commercial or a show only with a permit from the Director of Arbejdstilsynet, the Working Environment Authority, granted case by case under section 38 of the order on young people's work, BEK nr 1713 af 18/12/2025. Since 1 January 2026 the permits come from Arbejdstilsynet and no longer from the police, so older texts about a police permit are out of date. Either the client company or the parents apply through virk.dk with MitID; the child's CPR number, address and the parents' details are needed, and a child from abroad needs a passport copy as well. The authority aims to answer within 3 weeks at most. The starting point is 7 hours a day, fewer for younger children; preparation, make-up and breaks count as working time, travel to the location does not. Children under 15 may as a rule not work between 20:00 and 06:00. In the authority's own examples, three days of at most 6 hours between 10:00 and 18:00 can be approved for children aged 7 to 12, while for children aged 6 or under the default is a refusal unless the concrete circumstances justify it. A permit is needed however short the job, and also when a child under 13 appears regularly in advertising on social media.
From 13, shoots and shows count as cultural activities and need no permit as long as the work puts neither safety nor health at risk; the general limits for 13 and 14 year olds are 2 hours on school days and 7 on days off, but cultural activities may depart from them. Parents can be fined if a child works in breach of the order with their knowledge, and anyone, parents included, can complain to Arbejdstilsynet about a child's working conditions.
A child's fee is B-income: no tax is withheld, and from 2026 the 8% labour market contribution on B-income is due only from the year a person turns 18. Payment in clothes or gift cards is taxed at its value. How this works, and which papers a child from abroad needs, is in the guide Modeling agencies in Denmark.
Other children's agencies and the Copenhagen market
Star Kids' clients are in Copenhagen, and so are its competitors. Le Management Kids, the children's division of Northern Europe's largest agency, represents children aged 0 to 16, works without binding contracts and says most jobs take place in Aarhus or Copenhagen on weekdays. BASIC CPH has a separate kids site and an archive of more than 6,500 faces. In the same municipality of Gentofte, in Klampenborg, 1·kid modelmanagement has worked since 2006, takes children living in Denmark aged 0 to 14 and names Molo, Zara Kids, Mango and Dior among recent jobs. In Albertslund, JS Total Booking registers children in an archive of models and extras and charges DKK 98 for a profile. All 16 Copenhagen agencies, their conditions and the city's market are on the Copenhagen page.
Before you apply
- Photograph the child plainly, in daylight, without posing. Professional pictures are not needed for the application.
- Check the company: CVR 36081740 opens free of charge at datacvr.virk.dk, and the status NORMAL means a live registration.
- Ask in writing what is paid for each job, when the fee is transferred and whether the agency deducts anything; every deduction should appear on the statement.
- If the child is under 13, agree in advance who applies to Arbejdstilsynet for each job, and ask for a written plan of the day.
- If someone contacts you in the agency's name on social media, verify the contact on the agency's own site: that is a common pattern of a modeling scam.