Paulina Porizkova

At 59 years old, Paulina Porizkova has this physical status:

Career

Porizkova posted a photo that caught modeling scout John Casablancas' attention. She was 13 years old when she was diagnosed. One of her friends, who wanted to be a makeup artist, and others, painted Porizkova's face and sent the photographs to modeling agencies in Paris in the hopes of finding students. "I'm so glad a modeling company called inviting me to Copenhagen to visit John Casablancas, the legendary model scout." ... "Want to go to Paris?" As if I'd say no. As they say, the majority of the population is history."

Porizkova rose to fame in Paris in the early 1980s, and her fame soon extended to the United States when she posed in swimwear for Sports Illustrated. She was the first woman from Central Europe to be on the front page of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 1984, aged 18 years old. In 1985, she appeared on the front page for the first time. She was the second woman (after Christie Brinkley) to be on the front cover of the swimsuit magazine in two years (1984 and 1985). In 1983, she made her first appearance as a model in the magazine. In 1985, she appeared on the front page and inside New York. Harper's Bazaar named her one of the ten most beautiful women in 1992 in its first issue, and American Photo magazine named her to be the 1980s model. During the 1980s and 1990s, Porizkova appeared on the front pages of many magazines around the world, including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Self, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour.

She has been seen in commercial campaigns for Chanel, Versace, Hermes, Christian Dior, Oscar De La Renta, Mikimoto, Perry Ellis, Emily Biagiotti, Jane Klein, Barneys New York, Guerlain, and Revlon, as well as on Calvin Klein's runway for Calvin Klein.

Porizkova was awarded what was then the highest-paying modeling job, replacing Willow Bay. Critics lauded the black-and-white television and print ads campaign. Porizkova's public image was transformed from that of a swimsuit model to one of European sophisticate, and she remained the company's face until 1995. With Escada, she landed a new multi-million-dollar contract straight away.

Porizkova was part of the panel of experts on America's Next Top Model (ANTM), and he began with Cycle 10, replacing fashion icon Twiggy.

Porizkova continued to do weekly evaluations of ANTM participants on the program until she announced on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on May 12, 2009. Although Porizkova maintained she was told by producers that she had a "ego issue," especially when she "consistently complained" about Tyra Banks' reported lateness to the set, ANTM executive producer Ken Mok and Banks released a statement implying that Porizkova's dismissal was due to "the present state of the economy," prompting ANTM to "make major budget cuts...Unfortunately, Paulina was a casualty of these layoffset When asked by ABC News journalist Cynthia McFadden about Porizkova's dismissal as well as former ANTM colleague Janice Dickinson, both of whom had reported Banks were "difficult," the bank refused to investigate the situation.

She appeared on Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes.

Porizkova appeared on Dancing with the Stars in spring 2007, but she was disqualified on the first results show, which aired on March 27, 2007.

Clarissa appeared on about five episodes of CBS Daytime's soap opera As the World Turns in 2009 and 2010. In the fourth episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories' second season, Porizkova appeared.

Porizkova's debut film was in Portfolio, a 1983 modeling mockumentary. She appeared in the 1987 film Anna. She co-starred with Tom Selleck in the film Her Alibi in 1989. For her role in the film, she was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for worst actress.

Porizkova appeared in Emir Kusturica's 1993 film Arizona Dream, starring Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis in a minor role as Lewis' teenage Polish fiancée. In the 1998 film "The Female Role Model," she had the largest female role. Porizkova wrote and directed the 2001 film, Roommates. She appeared in the 2001 thriller film Dark Asylum with Judd Nelson. She appeared in Knots, the romantic comedies of 2004. She appeared in an episode of the Starz comedy series Head Case that aired on April 24, 2009. "Chromolume No. 2" appeared in a 6th-season episode of Desperate Housewives. Heidi Klum, a model, appears on "7." In an episode that aired on 6 March 2012, Jane by Design appeared on ABC Family's The Mysteries of Laura, and in February 2015 she appeared on The Mysteries of Laura.

Porizkova co-authored The Adventures of Ralphie the Roach, a children's book that was published in September 1992 and illustrated by her stepson Adam Ocasek. In 2007, about a 15-year-old Swedish girl (Jirina) picked by a modeling agent to spend a summer in Paris in 1980, she published A Model Summer, her first book (ISBN 978-1393303266; modelsommar in Swedish). Porizkova is a blogger for Modelinia and The Huffington Post.

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