Helle Sjelle (born 3 March 1971, in Faxe) is a Danish politician who served in the Danish Parliament from 2001 to 2011 as a member of the Conservative People's Party, having been elected into office a representative for ÃÂstre Storkreds constituency in 2001, and then for the Copenhagen constituency in 2007, and finally for Næstved before losing in the 2011 Danish general election. A graduate of the University of Copenhagen, she previously served on the Copenhagen City Council from 1998 to 2005, and was on the board of the KvinderÃÂ¥det from 1998 to 2008. She was recently on the board of the Frederiksberg Municipality from 2018 to 2023. She has been married to Lars Barfoed since 2014.