Model Paulina Porizkova ‘lost everything’ in house fire after learning she got Sports Illustrated cover
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Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, who is from Czechoslovakia, recounted the time her house burned down after she learned she'd landed the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1984.
"I was told that I got the Sports Illustrated cover because you know, you didn't know until the night before… it was [a] big, big secret thing," Porizkova said during an interview with Deadspin. Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Entertainment Writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to stephanie.giang@fox.com and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.
"They called, and they said, 'Guess what? You got the Sports Illustrated cover. And I think that night, or the night right after that, my house burned down to the ground, and then I lost everything I owned."