Petra Nemcova Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Paulina Porizkova was the first Czech Chick, and she is amazing, beautiful and has a very strong personality.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

Trivia

Petra was recently awarded the Survivor Award by Glamour magazine for surviving the tsunami and picking her life up after the death to her fiance.

After the tsunami, she spent 3 weeks in a Thai hospital recovering before flying to Czech Republic and spending another 3 weeks in a hospital there.

Petra also models for Victoria's Secrets.

Petra was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition in 2003.

She is currently signed with Next Modeling Agency and has contracts with the likes of Max Factor and Cartier.

Petra was hit by the tsunami attack of 2005 when she was on a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit shoot.