Who is Paulina Porizkova? Model Creating Buzz With New Vogue Cover

Model Paulina Porizkova made a buzz with her frontal nude picture on the Vogue Czechoslovakia cover. Know more about who is Paulina Porizkova.

Paulina Porizkova shared the picture of the cover of Vogue Czechoslovakia on Instagram. The supermodel is seen in a frontal nude picture. In the caption, Porizkova wrote, "Exactly 40 years after my very first (German) Vogue cover at the age of sixteen, here is a new one. Full frontal nude, at 56, on Vogue CZ."

Who is Paulina Porizkova?

• Paulina Porizkova is a 56-year-old actor, model, and author. She owns dual citizenship in the US and Sweden.
• Her parents had fled the Warsaw Pact Invasion and left young Paulina in her grandmother's care. Her family was reunited after seven years. But soon her father divorced her mother and refused to pay for the child support, according to reports.
• At the age of 15, Paulina moved to Paris to pursue her career in Modelling.
• She also became the first woman from central Europe to feature on the cover of  Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She achieved this at the age of 18.
• Paulina said in an interview about being a model over 50 and mentioned her story, "In the ’80s I was exotic because I was from an Eastern European country, and I had this story; I was a refugee. And it sort of catapulted me into the big time."
• At one time, she had the highest-paying modelling contract ever. She was also a judge on the show America's Next Top Model.
• As a writer, Paulina has co-authored the book, The Adventures of Ralphie the Roach. Her first novel was A Model Summer.
• Paulina in reaction to retouching the picture on the cover of Vogue CZ said, "It's like, no, no, no ... it was Marie photography! Obviously, you know, you could take a much worse picture than that of me, but you wouldn't want to see that on the cover, right?"

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