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Actress and Supermodel Paulina Porizkova pictures and photo gallery.
Born: April 9, 1965 Prostejov, Czechoslovakia. [now Czech Republic]. Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m). Spouse(s): -Ric Ocasek (23 August 1989 - present) 2 children. She holds both Swedish and United States citizenship. Born Pavlína Pořízková in Prostějov (now in the Czech Republic), she was still a toddler when her father and mother left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Soviet invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left Paulina and her younger brother Joachym under the care of their grandmother, believing that the children could be brought out later. However, the Czechoslovak authorities would not allow this, and the ensuing battle for Paulina was widely publicised in the Swedish press, making her a cause célèbre. After a failed rescue attempt, in which her mother was detained by the Czechoslovak police, international political pressure led by Olof Palme caused the communist government to allow the Porizkova family to be reunited after seven years. The reunion was soon ended when the husband left, and the couple filed for divorce. Father and daughter have been estranged since. This left Paulina's mother to fund her own medical education, leaving the two children very much to fend for themselves, including having to steal bread to have something to eat. Paulina hated her time in Sweden, as she was harassed by her peers for her poverty-sticken political refugee status. |
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