Paulina Porizkova (Czech: Pavlína Pořízková, pronounced [ˈpavliːna ˈpor̝iːskovaː]; born April 9, 1965) is a Czech model and actress.
Born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, Pořízková was still a toddler when her parents left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left the young Pořízková under the care of her grandmother in Czechoslovakia, believing that their daughter could be brought out ...
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Paulina Porizkova (Czech: Pavlína Pořízková, pronounced [ˈpavliːna ˈpor̝iːskovaː]; born April 9, 1965) is a Czech model and actress.
Born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, Pořízková was still a toddler when her parents left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left the young Pořízková under the care of her grandmother in Czechoslovakia, believing that their daughter could be brought out later.
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. 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 Pořízek family to be reunited after seven years. The reunion was soon ended when Pořízková's father left the family, and her parents filed for divorce. Pořízková and her father have been...
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