Paulina Porizkova: Supermodel, Feminist

Paulina has lived in four very different countries. She will share the commonalities, differences, and perceptions of women and how these countries have shaped her as a person and as a woman. A former supermodel, she is currently a writer and author of the novel “A Model Summer.”
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Paulina has lived in four very different countries: Czechoslovakia, Sweden, France, and the U.S. She will share the commonalities, differences, and perceptions of women and how these four countries have shaped her as a person and as a woman. A supermodel, Paulina Porizkova was first a cover girl as a child refugee in Sweden before she became one in the fashion business in Paris in 1980. Never content to be just a pretty face, she turned to movies and TV, and later to writing. You can read Paulina’s NY Times Op-Ed piece "America Made Me a Feminist". https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/paulina-porizkova-america-feminist.html “How America Made Me A Feminist” Paulina Porizkova has lived in four very different countries: Czechoslovakia, Sweden, France, and the U.S. She will share the commonalities, differences, and perceptions of women and how these four countries have shaped her as a person and as a woman. A supermodel, Paulina Porizkova was first a cover girl as a child refugee in Sweden before she became one in the fashion business in Paris in 1980. Never content to be just a pretty face, she turned to movies and TV, and later to writing. You can read Paulina’s NY Times Op-Ed piece "America Made Me a Feminist". This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx