EXCLUSIVE Karolina Kurkova, 40, talks modeling lingerie at 16, the disease that made her gain 30lbs and her diet secrets as she returns to spotlight after 3 kids By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 10:25 EDT, 28 May 2024 | Updated: 10:58 EDT, 28 May 2024 e-mail 11 shares 3 View comments Advertisement Karolina Kurkova was one of the top fashion models of the 1990s, often gracing the cover of Vogue and also working for lingerie brand Victoria's Secret . The blonde beauty with the killer smile was on top of the Most Beautiful lists opposite Gisele Bundchen and Heidi Klum .
Then she took a break from working so she could bring up her three children - daughter LunaGrace, 3, and sons Noah, 8, and Tobin, 14 - whom she shares with her husband since 2009, Archie Drury. Now she is back to working full-time as she made a splash at the Cannes film festival in a formfitting black dress that highlighted her incredible figure. The 40-year-old dynamo talked to Dailymail.
com about the highs and lows of her career which included starting work at age 15, the awkwardness of posing in lingerie at age 16, realizing at age 24 she had gained 30lbs from a thyroid disease called Hashimoto's, to becoming a family woman. 'I never thought I would be famous like this. I never thought it would happen to me.
It just blows my mind and it still incredible what a career I have been lucky to have,' Karolina told Dailymail.com in the exclusive interview. Karolina Kurkova was one of the top fashion model.
