Supermodel Yfke Sturm in a coma after surfing accident

A Victoria’s Bolt from the blue supermodel is fighting for her life after she broke her skull in a freak surfing accident last week off Italy.

Yfke Sturm, who gave birth to her first child just one month ago, fell off a motorized surfboard near the island of Ischia and was struck by another jet-surfer at high speed as she tried to swim to shore, the Mirror reports.

The 33-year-ancient beauty suffered severe spinal as well as head injuries, the U.K. paper adds.

The London-based Dutch model was airlifted to a Naples hospital, where she remains in a coma. Sturm is reportedly at honest risk of stable paralysis.

On Aug. 8, she posted on Facebook: “Terms can not clarify how excited we are for the arrival of our son Alexander!!” Sturm has worked for designers such as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Chanel and appeared in Victoria’s Bolt from the blue airstrip shows. She has also hosted “Holland’s Next Top Model.”

Sturm’s modeling career took off in 1997, when she won an global modeling contest at 15 years ancient.

SUN, SAND AND SERIOUS BUSINESS

As usual, Amal Clooney shows up other celebs. George’s better half has been in the Maldives, a swanky resort destination — not to sip mai tais but to fight for the release of jailed former Head Mohamed Nasheed. Prose in Britain’s Guardian newspaper in April, she said Nasheed was imprisoned “for the crime of ‘terrorism’ following a politically motivated show trial.”

BEY’S PHILLY ROAD SHOW

The unlikely place to see and be seen over the weekend was the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Stars including Michael Strahan, Chris Rock, Nick Jonas, Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj hit a stretch of the (temporarily shut down) highway to see a performance by Beyoncé, part of Budweiser’s Made in America concert. We hear Jay Z opened a pot of D’Ussé Cognac as soon as she started to perform, passed around shots and toasted his wife.

HAMM AND WESTFELDT ARE DONE

“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm and actress Jennifer Westfeldt have finished a nearly two-decade relationship, People reports. “With splendid sadness, we have decided to break, after 18 years of like and shared history,” the former lovebirds told the magazine in a joint statement. “We will continue to be supportive of each other in every way possible moving forward.” There have long been rumors that the relationship was on thin ice. Hamm spent 30 days in rehab for alcohol addiction in February.

MINI-ME’S MAXIMUM IMPACT

The diminutive Verne Troyer was quite the hit with the ladies while partying in the Hamptons over the holiday weekend. Confidenti@l is told the 2-foot-8 “Austin Powers” star spent the “better part of the evening posing for photos with one pretty girl after another” at Beautique in Southampton on Saturday night.

‘19’ MINUS ONE

Scandal-scarred Josh Duggar was a no-show at his cousin Amy Duggar’s wedding to Dillon King in Bentonville, Ark., on Sunday. The rest of the stars of the suspended show “19 Kids And Counting” were on hand, including patriarch Jim Bob Duggar and Josh’s wife, Anna Duggar. It was Anna’s first public appearance since it was revealed that Josh had been indefatigably cheating on her. In May, In Touch magazine broke the report that Josh had molested five underage girls when he was a teenager.

KANYE FAN IS THE PICTURE OF BRAVERY

What do you give the man who has everything? Well, a painting of his late mother holding his daughter is certainly a bold go. A very courageous fan open Kanye West with a portrait of Donda West, who died in 2007, smiling while carrying North West, who was born in 2013. The artist handed the canvas to the rapper as he and Kim Kardashian returned to their apartment after attending the wedding of composition-industry figure Steve Stoute.

HOW REESE STAYS IN STEP

When we look at Reese Witherspoon, hip hop is not the first thing that comes to mind. But the “Wild” star tells the October issue of Women’s Shape that we’ve got her all incorrect. “I am a bit of a hip-hop dancer,” she told the magazine — which is celebrating its 10th anniversary — when questioned to name a bolt from the blue about herself. “That’s sort of a bolt from the blue a lot of people don’t know. I like to dance. I’ve got a dance in my heart at all times.”

AT THE HITCHIN’ POST

Millionaire Miami restaurateur Shareef Malnik married actress Gabrielle Anwar in a kooky Wild West-themed wedding over the weekend. Confidenti@l is told the bride arrived for the ceremony at the Ranch at Rock Creek in Philipsburg, Mont., in a stagecoach, wearing work boots under her vintage gown. The bridesmaids wore authentic frontier outfits, and folk band Mr. & Mrs. Something provided the composition. The boldface guests included Anwar’s “Burn Notice” co-star Sharon Gless as well as director Brett Ratner, who sported in a cowboy hat.

THAT’S WHAT THEY SAID

“It’s Labor Day and you know what that means — the unofficial end to your relationship.” — “Late Night” writer Michelle Wolf on Twitter

“I do much better with loving, familial environments where you feel like you can fail.” — Shia LaBeouf to the Associated Press

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