Petra Nemcová is a fashion supermodel. She currently models for Victoria’s Secret and has appeared in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition multiple times. She is now the host of the television show “A Model’s Life” that is aired on the TLC network. She is also a spokesperson for HP Computers and can be seen in many of their recent ad campaigns. In 2004, she was injured in Thailand by a tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; her then-fiancé, Simon Atlee, was killed in the tsunami.
Nemcová suffered a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries, but she managed to hold onto the top of a palm tree, reportedly for eight hours, until she was rescued by Thai civilians and airlifted to an inland hospital nearby. Petra spent three weeks in a Thai hospital, and then flew home to the Czech Republic, where she spent an additional three weeks in the hospital. She went on to write Always Petra– a biography about her early life living in communist Czechoslovakia, her rise to stardom as a supermodel and the ordeal she went through in the 2004 Tsunami. She was recently seen as a presenter at the American Live Earth event and has since spent a tremendous amount of time with various benefits and charities to better aid our environment.
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