Key Highlights
- The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit legend, now 60, detailed the normalization of sexual harassment she allegedly faced as a teenager, saying the very people tasked with managing her career often sent her into compromising situations."I started modeling at 15 in Paris on a summer break from school," Porizkova shared in a video clip posted to Instagram.
- "And every day I was sent on four to 10 so-called ‘go-and-sees.’ You go, and they see — all over the city — by myself, with no knowledge of the language or the city." PRINCESS SOFIA OF SWEDEN MET JEFFREY EPSTEIN A FEW TIMES BUT DENIES ANY TIES, PALACE SAYS The Sports Illustrated legend details her being sent alone to "go-and-sees" in Paris at age 15, where men in bathrobes greeted her in hotel rooms.
- (Darren Gerrish/WireImage for Estée Lauder) The Czechoslovakia-born model explained that while some meetings were professional, many others were far from it.
- "Sometimes the people I was seeing were well-dressed and in offices, and sometimes they were middle-aged guys in messy apartments who just wanted to take a few casual photos of me — you know, preferably topless," she said.
- "I've lost count of the amount of men in open bathrobes who greeted me in their hotel rooms or apartments where I have been sent by an agency or clients."Porizkova, who made history in 1984 as the first Central European woman to land a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover, noted that the advances were not limited to messy apartments.
