Petra Nemcova - Bouncing Czech

Tsunami-surviving swimsuit model
Petra Nemcova
We have very beautiful women in the Czech Republic. Most of my friends who meet someone who is single say, ‘Go to the Czech Republic! You’re going to find the right woman there!’

Let’s be frank here, there’s no one else on our list who was well and truly pummelled by the 2004 Tsunami and lived to the tell the tale. Czech model Petra lost her fiancé during this mother of all storms – his body wasn’t even found for two months – and she herself spent a whopping six weeks being fixed up in hospital. That said: what a recovery.

The lithe clothes-hanger represents exactly what blokes are looking for when they disappear to Eastern Europe on a stag do: not that they’ll ever see her there as she spends most of her time in America these days, where one of her jobs is presenting cable TV show A Model Life and another is flogging very posh apartments to very wealthy men.

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Ranking history in the 100 Sexiest Women

2008 #75 | 2007 #60

Vital Statistics

  • Red-hot model who is no stranger to Sports Illustrated’s much-celebrated Swimsuit issue.

  • Survived the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami by hanging onto a palm tree for eight hours.

  • Went out with toothy posh boy James Blunt, and foolishly remained “good friends” after splitting up.

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