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Paulina Porizkova Biography |
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| Paulina Porizkova is a Czech-born actress and a supermodel. She holds both Swedish and United States citizenship. Born Pavlína Pořízková in Prostějov. Her father and mother left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Soviet invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left Paulina and her younger brother Joachym under the care of their grandmother. A photographer friend took pictures of Porizkova and sent them to the Elite modeling agency in 1980. At 5 feet 10 1/2 inches (180 cm), she was the perfect height for a fashion model. Elite head John Casablancas noticed Porizkova's attractiveness and potential, and offered her a ticket to Paris. It was an extremely tempting offer for a teenager who was eager to get out of Sweden and to support herself. She quickly rose to become a top model in Paris during the early 1980s, and her fame spread to the United States when she posed in swimwear for "Sports Illustrated" magazine. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1984 and again in 1985. (Her first appearance as a model in the magazine was in 1983.) A third consecutive run as the S.I. covergirl supposedly was dashed when she appeared on the cover of Life magazine in a swimsuit. Porizkova appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in August 1987. Porizkova was chosen twice by People magazine as one of the Fifty Most Beautiful People in the world, in 1990 and 1992. Harper's Bazaar magazine named her one of its ten most beautiful women in 1992. American Photo magazine in its first issue declared her to be the model of the 1980s. She appeared on the covers of numerous magazines around the world during the 1980s and 1990s, including appearances on Vogue, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Self, and Glamour. She also featured in advertising for Diet Sprite. In 1988, Porizkova won what was then the highest-paying modeling contract: a six million dollar per year contract with Estee Lauder cosmetics, replacing the model Willow Bay. After bearing her first baby, Porizkova devoted less and less time to modeling, and she moved into acting in independent films. She soon got a new contract as the lead model for Escada. In early 2001, she was the hostess for a television show on the E! network's Style Channel. In 2005, she made her first appearance in the noted Victoria's Secret catalogue. Porizkova's film debut was in the 1983 modelling pseudo-documentary Portfolio. Still only seventeen, she managed to look more mature and intelligent than the other more-established models, and she became the "covergirl" for the film. Paulina wrote and directed the 2001 film, Roommates. In 2004, she starred in the romantic comedy, Knots, but turned down an opportunity to be a Bond Girl in the 1995 film GoldenEye because of better earnings available to her in modelling then, as well as not wishing to take time away from her family. On August 23, 1989, Paulina married Ric Ocasek, the lead musician with the band The Cars. Paulina was only nineteen at their 1984 meeting, while Ocasek was already married at the time. They hid their romance until their engagement. The couple has two sons, Jonathan Raven Ocasek, born in November 1993, and Oliver Orion Ocasek, born in May 1998. Paulina became a naturalised U.S. citizen under the name Paulina Porizkova-Ocasek. On February 20, 2007, the ABC television network announced that Paulina would be a participant in its Spring 2007 Dancing with the Stars reality show. | |||||||||||||
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