Eva Herzigova Biography

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Date of Birth: 12 March 1973, Litvinov, Czechoslovakia. [now Czech Republic]

Height: 6' (1.83 m)

Herzigová was born in Litvínov, in the then Central bloc country of Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic. She began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased. Her first important appearance was the Wonderbra campaign in 1990s. She was also featured in Guess? jeans advertisements. She has also appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog and Sports Illustrated. She was a member of Thomas Zeumer's Metropolitan Models. Herzigová has also appeared in several movies. She posed nude for Playboy in August 2004. In 2006 she was Venus at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.

She married Tico Torres, the drummer from Bon Jovi, in September 1996, in a lavish wedding attended by, among others, Donald Trump. The pair divorced in June 1998.

On 1 June 2007, Herzigová and her boyfriend, Turinese entrepreneur Gregorio Marsiaj, welcomed a son George in Paris.

She is signed to Storm Model Management in London, and 1/One Management in New York City.

On Friday 18 September 2009 she appeared on the Jonathan Ross show on BBC1

Spouse: Tico Torres (7 September 1996 - June 1998) (divorced)

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Fun Facts

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Net Worth $12.3 million dollars. [1998]

Mother is a secretary, father is a mining engineer.

Dating music mogul Guy Oseary. [2000]

Discovered at age 17 while on a family day trip to Germany when she was approached to enter a beauty contest sponsored by the American modeling firm, Madison.

Measurements: 34-23-34 (at start of the Wonderbra campaign), 35-25-36 (in 1997), Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Ex-husband Tico Torres is the drummer for Bon Jovi.

One of the world's top fashion models.

Was ranked #15 in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".

At age 34, she gave birth to her first child. Son, George, was born on June 1, 2007, in Torin, Italy. Eva's labor and delivery were without complication, and the baby arrived just before 10:00 pm, weighing in at over 9 lbs and measuring 20.5 inches long. Eva's boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj was present for the birth.

Son George, born 1 June 2007.

She was offered first the role of Mandy in Eyes Wide Shut (1999) by Stanley Kubrick, but she refused because there were too many naked scenes, and Kubrick didn't want to modify them.