Career
Paulina Porizkova was born in Czechoslovakia and was separated from her family during the Warsaw Pact Invasion. After seven years she was reunited with her mother and lived with her in Sweden. When she was 15, a friend sent a picture of her to Elite Modeling Agency. Throughout the 1980's Porizkova became a top model in Paris as well as the United States. She has been featured in numerous Sports Illustrated and non-nude Playboy magazines and calendars. She has also been featured in Vogue, Elle, Self, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. In 1990 and 1992 Porizkova was chosen as one of People's Fifty Most Beautiful People.

Paulina Porizkova also became involved in acting when she was seventeen, however none of her films were very successful. She appeared in Portfolio, Anna which was written by Agnieska Holland and directed by Yurek Bogayevicz, Her Alibi where she starred with Tom Selleck, Arizona Dream which starred Johnny Depp, Thursday, and Knots. Later, she appeared in Female Perversions starring Tilda Swinton, Wedding Bell Blues with Julie Warner and Ileana Douglas, After the Rain, and People I know with Al Pachino. She also was a hostess for an E! show and appeared on the 2007 season of Dancing with The Stars.

Porizkova wrote A Model Summer and the children's book The Adventures of Ralphie and Roach as well.

America's Next Top Model
Paulina Porizkova has been an America's Next Top Model judge since cycle 10 when Twiggy left.

Quotes
“When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.”

"Models are back to what they were in the '70s: clothes hangers."

"Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought."