Known for many of her charm, femininity, beauty, the Swedish-American writer, supermodel, host of television shows, Paulina Porizkova. Bloody Thursday and the role of Dallas in a crime action movie (1998) made her also a sought-after, popular film actress.
Pavlina Porizkova - biography
Paulina Porizkova was born in the town of Prosteev (Prostezhov) of the Czechoslovak SSR on 09.04.1965. After the events of January 05-21, 1968, entitled “Prague Spring” and related to the election of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the introduction of Soviet troops into the country, her parents moved to Sweden.
Little Paulina remained in the care of her grandmother for several years. In fact, she was left behind the Iron Curtain. Later, the mother will come secretly to pick up her daughter, but will be detained by the authorities, and the case of family reunification will receive international publicity. Only seven years later, with the assistance of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden, her parents will be able to remove the girl from the country.
Paulina’s childhood was difficult. Soon after the family reunited, her parents divorced, she and her younger brother stayed with her mother. It was a rather difficult period, as my father refused to pay child support. It was at this time that the character of the girl was tempered, she learned to independently achieve her goals, to overcome difficulties.
By a fortunate coincidence and thanks to the beauty, the girl gets a “happy ticket”. Trying to get a job as a photographer at an agency, her friend offered a job that Paulina Porizkova posed for. The photos were immediately appreciated, excellent model data was noticed in Elite, and a month later a fifteen-year-old girl conquered Paris. Girl magazine 20 Ans was the first "gloss" in her life.
Personal life of a model
In 1984, Paulina met her future husband Ric Ocasek on the set of a music video for Cars. American musician, producer, songwriter, vocalist became the man of her life for many years. In August 1989, the couple got married, they have two sons. Jonathan Raven Okasek was born in 1993, Oliver Okasek was born in 1999.
All members of our family are very close. We traveled a lot as a family and generally spent a lot of time with each other. Just returned from the Czech Republic, I was glad to show the children where their roots came from.
For many years, Rick and Paulina walked hand in hand, were an exemplary family. But in May 2018, after 28 years of marriage, Porizkova and Okasek announced a separation.
Model and actress career
The career of the model began very rapidly. Paulina became famous literally in one day. After the footage of a young 15-year-old girl got to John Casablancas in Elite, she was invited to Paris. In just a few years, it has become one of the most sought-after models of the 80s.
At the age of 18, Paulina appears on the pages of the most influential glossy publications, defiles at the shows of fashion houses such as Donna Karan, Versace, Chanel, Christian Dior, Hermes, Oscar de la Renta, etc.
For the first time, the girl was awarded the attention of the editors of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - at age 19, she appeared on his cover. Repeatedly appeared on the covers of New York, Harper's Bazaar, Glamor, Elle, Self, Vogue, Cosmopolitan.
At the end of the 80s, offers from cosmetic brands fell on her. The highest paid model fee of the time at $ 6 million belonged to her - this is a contract with Estee Lauder. She remained the face of the company until 1995. Then she entered into a multi-million dollar contract with Escada. Paulina Porizkova starred for the famous Playboy, recognized as the first model of the 80s according to American Photo and the most beautiful according to People.
Paulina tried herself as a film actress in 1987 in the film "Anna", two years later she starred with Tom Selleck in "Her Alibi", but this film was not very successful. She was nominated for Golden Raspberry, an anti-award for the worst female role in the movie Her Alibi. After the birth of her son in 1993, she moved away from the modeling business and continued to try herself in the filming of films. In 1993, she starred in the movie Arizona Dream, rehabilitating her film actress role as Emir Kusturica, along with Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis.
Paulina writes the script and shoots her film in 2001, Roommates, is actively filming with other directors and participates in series and television shows. For some time, along with Tyra Banks, she participated in the jury "Top Model in American Style". She admitted that the career of the model was a burden to her.
I love the money that the modeling business brings, but I hate working as a model. There is nothing creative in just standing all day under the camera.
In many films Paulina Porizkova is shot, films and TV shows with her participation:
- Portfolio
- "Cover Girl";
- “Saturday Night Live”;
- "Anna";
- "Her Alibi";
- "Arizona Dream";
- "Female perversion";
- "The blues of wedding bells";
- Bloody Thursday
- "Secrets of the past";
- "Trainee";
- "Companions";
- "Talk to me";
- "After the rain";
- "Labyrinths";
- Elisa;
- "Near Paradise";
- "Necessary people";
- “The second, but the best”;
- “Connections”;
- "How the world revolves";
- "Desperate Housewives";
- “Well, have you arrived?”;
- "In the style of Jane"
- "Secrets of Laura";
- "Looking at night."
Literary work
In addition, Porizkova is known as a writer. A Model Summer is her first book. These are memoirs about work and the modeling business, where she shares her feelings, fears and ways to deal with it.
People suffer from anxiety disorders, but this is not customary to talk about. Therefore, many will be useful and interesting to my book.
A second book for children was co-authored with Joanne Russell, The Adventures of Ralphie the Roach.
Paulina Porizkova very quickly conquered the world of fashion and won a leading position in the modeling business for many years. She realized herself not only in the photo, television and film industries, took place as a model on the catwalk, writer, but also as a happy mother and wife.