Born Eva Herzigová
10 March 1972 (1972-03-10) (age 39)
Litvínov, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czechoslovakia
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Eva Herzigová (born 10 March 1973) is a Czech model and actress.
Herzigová was born in Litvínov, 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.[citation needed] In 2006, she was Venus at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Amongst her most recent projects, Herzigová also starred in a fashion art film by Imagine Fashion, called Decadent Control with Roberto Cavalli. It featured fashions by Agent Provocateur and H&M.
She married Tico Torres, the drummer from Bon Jovi, in September 1996, in a lavish wedding attended by, among others, Donald Trump. The couple divorced in June 1998.
On 1 June 2007, Herzigová and her boyfriend, Turinese entrepreneur Gregorio Marsiaj, had a son George, born in Paris. Their second son, Philipe, was born on 13 March 2011.
Model agency
* D'management group Milan
* One Management New York
* Storm Model London
* Marilyn Agency Paris
* Czechoslovak Models Prague
Controversy
In 2003, Herzigová sued Canadian retailer La Senza for $36,000 for a breach of contract. La Senza refused to pay her for a catalog photo shoot because the company did not approve of her recently shortened haircut.
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