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'ANTM' Exec Explains Paulina Porizkova's Exit from 'Top Model'

Entertainment Tonight: Topstories - Found May. 18, 2009
"America's Next Top Model" executive producer Ken Mok tells ET why judge Paulina Porizkova was let go from the show.

Posted on May 18, 2009, 3:01 am

Jolie stands tall in eyes of her co-star Schreiber

New York Daily News - Found Jun. 24, 2009
She's definitely not like any other lady I know.' Jessica White is following in fellow supermodel Paulina Porizkova's footsteps by writing her...

Posted on June 24, 2009, 2:48 am

Paulina Porizkova Axed From Top Model

People - Found May. 13, 2009
America's Next Top Model ends its current cycle on Wednesday night ? and it will also be the last show for judge Paulina Porizkova.
'Top Model's' Paulina Porizkova: 'I was fired' - Los Angeles Times
Top Model Dumps Paulina and her "Huge Ego" - E! Online
'America's Next Top Model's' Paulina Porizkova: 'I was fired' - Los Angeles Times
Top Model Judge Paulina Porizkova Gets Fired - Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Posted on May 13, 2009, 9:35 am

Paulina Porizkova On Top Model Dismissal: My Hissy Fits Didnt Go ...

Access Hollywood - Found May. 14, 2009
Porizkova said she was fired from due to what producers called an ego problem. In a new interview for Access Hollywood and , Paulina opened up...
Paulina Porizkova fired from 'America's Next Top Model' - Chicago Tribune
TEYONA TAKES 'ANTM' - New York Post
Porizkova: I was fired from ANTM - Metro.co.uk
Paulina Porizkova fired from "America's Next Top Model" - Chicago Tribune
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Posted on May 14, 2009, 3:41 am

America's Next Top Model: Judge Paulina Porizkova gets the boot

Ledger-Enquirer - Found May. 13, 2009
Tuesday, 'America's Next Top Model' judge Paulina Porizkova told late-night host Craig Ferguson she's been fired from the reality TV competition,
Teyona Takes the Title on America's Next Top Model - E! Online
Teyona tops Allison for ?Model? title - MSNBC
Teyona Takes the Title on Top Model - E! Online
Teyona Wins 'America's Next Top Model' - Is She Hot Or Not? - Starpulse
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Posted on May 13, 2009, 9:26 am

Why Tyra Banks Fired Paulina Porizkova

People - Found May. 18, 2009
... told by the producers that I have an ego problem." In their statement, Mok and Banks said, "Tyra, who pursued Paulina to join the show as a...
'Top Model': Paulina a victim of 'economy' - Entertainment Weekly Online
Why Tyra Banks Fired Paulina Porizkova - People
Top Model Producer: Paulina Porizkova Fired Over Money, Not Ego - Access Hollywood
Tyra Banks: Paulina Porizkova was fired due to 'Top Model' budget ... - Reality TV World
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Posted on May 18, 2009, 2:45 am

'America's Next Top Model' fires Paulina Porizkova

AM New York - Found May. 13, 2009
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Tara Costa: The Wrap - Newsday
Lambert Wins. Really. - Newsday
Celebrating France's party people - AM New York
Viral video: 'Wolverine fan' makes his own claws - AM New York
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Posted on May 13, 2009, 4:46 am

Well Played, Paulina Porizkova

Go Fug Yourself - Found May. 21, 2009
I will have been doing this job for five years in July (wow) and it's given me many helpful and obscure skills.

Posted on May 21, 2009, 1:19 pm

Paulina Porizkova Fired From America's Next Top Model

ShoppingBlog.com - Found May. 13, 2009
Actress and model Paulina Porizkova tells Craig Ferguson she was fired from America's Next Top Model . Paulina says she was told she was fired

Posted on May 13, 2009, 11:50 am

Paulina Porizkova: 'America's Next Top Model' fired me

From Inside the Box - Found May. 13, 2009
Paulina Porizkova: 'America's Next Top Model' fired me Get your fill of Paulina Porizkova on the "America's Next Top Model" finale Wednesday

Posted on May 13, 2009, 8:35 am

Paulina Porizkova Biography

Paulina Porizkova
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Pavlína Pořízková
Birth name Pavlína Pořízková
Date of birth April 9, 1965 (1965-04-09) (age 44)
Place of birth Prostějov, Czechoslovakia
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)1
Hair color Brown1
Eye color Blue1
Measurements (US) 34-25-35;
(EU) 86.5-63.5-891
Dress size (US) 6; (EU) 361
Shoe size (US) 9; (EU) 411
Spouse(s) Ric Ocasek (1989~)

Paulina Porizkova (Czech: Pavlína Pořízková, pronounced [ˈpavliːna ˈpor̝iːskovaː]; born April 9, 1965) is a Czech model and actress.

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Early life

Born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, she was still a toddler when her father and mother left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left Paulina under the care of her grandmother, believing that their daughter could be brought out later.citation needed

However, the Czechoslovakian authorities would not allow this, and the ensuing battle for Pořízková was widely publicized in the Swedish press, making her a cause célèbre.citation needed After a failed rescue attempt, in which her mother was detained by the national police, international political pressure led by Olof Palme caused the communist government to allow the Pořizka family to be reunited after seven years.citation needed The reunion was soon ended when the husband left, and the couple filed for divorce.citation needed Father and daughter have been estranged since.citation needed

This left Pořízková's mother to fund her own medical education and Pořízková and her brother Jáchym Pořízka (who was born in Czechoslovakia during her mother's house arrest) to look after themselves, including having to steal bread to have something to eat.citation needed

Career

Modeling

An aspiring photographer friend took pictures of Přízková and sent them to the Elite modeling agency in 1980, hoping they would notice her own photography skills.citation needed However, instead of taking the photographer on board, Elite head John Casablancas noticed Porizkova's attractiveness and potential, and offered her a ticket to Paris.citation needed At 5 feet 10 1/2 inches (180 cm), she was the perfect height for a fashion model - it was a tempting offer for a teenager who was eager to get out of Sweden and to support herself.citation needed

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. 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.)

Pořízková appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in August 1987 to preview her new (non-nude) swimsuit calendar. Both of her calendars in 1988 and 1989 by photographer Marco Glaviano sold hundreds of thousands of copies.citation needed

Pořízková was chosen twice by People as one of the Fifty Most Beautiful People in the world, in 1990 and 1992. Harper's Bazaar named her one of its ten most beautiful women in 1992. American Photo in its first issue declared her to be the model of the 1980s.citation needed 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, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. She featured in advertising for Diet Sprite. Porizkova was the cover model for the 20th Anniversary issue of Cosmopolitan magazine in November 1985.

In 1988, Pořízková won what was then the highest-paying modeling contract: a six million dollar contract with Estée Lauder cosmetics, replacing the model Willow Bay.citation needed Estée Lauder's strategy in the late 1980s was to move away from an older generation of women and target younger urbanite professional women.citation needed The black-and-white television and print advertising campaign won praise from critics.citation needed The Estée Lauder makeover transformed Pořízková's public image from a swimsuit model to that of European sophisticatecitation needed and she remained the company's face until 1995.

Pořízková has appeared in the books Models and Sirens, by Marco Glaviano, and in Fashion Photography by Patrick Demarchelier. The latter includes some of the noted LIFE magazine swimsuit pictures from several years ago. She was in Women by Herb Ritts.

After having her first baby in 1993, Pořízková devoted 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.

Although she had a career as a model, Pořízková was known to make disparaging remarks about the fashion and beauty industry.citation needed

Television work

She was part of the panel of judges on America's Next Top Model, starting on Cycle 10 replacing the fashion icon, Twiggy.2 Pořízková continued to conduct regular weekly evaluations of Top Model participants on the show until she announced she'd been fired from Top Model during a May 12, 2009 appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS.3

Pořízková was a participant on the Spring 2007 series Dancing with the Stars,4 but she was voted off on the first results show which aired March 27, 2007.5

Acting

Pořízková's film debut was in the 1983 modeling mockumentary, 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.

Pořízková appeared in the 1987 film Anna (which starred Sally Kirkland), receiving good reviews from her patrons at Vogue magazine. It was in 1989 that she had her largest, and best-known role to date, co-starring with Tom Selleck (who was rumored to not get along with her at all) in the film Her Alibi. However, she was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for worst actress for her appearance in the film.citation needed

She was rumoredcitation needed in a 1989 issue of the Italian magazine "Moda" to be starring along with Robert De Niro in a planned film by Sergio Leone about the siege of Leningrad during World War II, halted by the director's death. Later, she appeared in Emir Kusturica's film Arizona Dream, with Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis, in a minor role as Lewis's young Polish fiancee. She appeared in the film Thursday.

Pořízková 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 modeling at the time, as well as not wishing to take time away from her family.

Her recent television work includes an April 18, 2007 appearance on The Colbert Report after remarks that she found Colbert "extremely attractive." She most recently appeared on the Starz comedy series Head Case which aired on April 24, 2009.

Writing

She has finished her debut novel, A Model Summer (ISBN 1401303269) (ISBN 978-1401303266). It is about a 15-year-old Swedish girl chosen by a modeling agent to spend a summer working in Paris.

In September 1992, her children's book The Adventures of Ralphie the Roach (ISBN 0385424027) (ISBN 978-0385424028), co-authored by Joanne Russell and illustrated by stepson Adam Ocasek, was published.

Personal life

On August 23, 1989, Pořízková married Ric Ocasek, lead singer for the rock band The Cars. They had first met in 1984 during the filming of The Cars' music video, "Drive", which was directed by Timothy Hutton. Pořízková was only 19 and Ocasek was already married at that time. The couple have two children.

Later, Pořízková was the subject of the song "Friends of P" by The Rentals on their 1995 album Return of the Rentals, written by lead singer Matt Sharp, also a former member of the Ocasek-produced Weezer and the song "Paulina" on No Doubt's first album.

Pavlína became a naturalized U.S. citizen under the name Pavlína Pořízková-Ocasek.

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