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What did you buy for your first fee? A house or a car?
Cell phone and computer.

You are third in the world. How is before you? Naomi Campbell? Eva Herzigova? Karolina Kurkova?No they are celebrities. They go to TV shows, attend fashion shows like guests… You wouldn’t know the names of girls before me… they are different after every season. It depends how many fashion shows you did or how you are interesting for favourite fashion photographers. During three weeks of fashion weeks in New York, Paris and Milano I did 64 fashion shows.

Do you remember the first moment in backstage… when you saw the famous topmodels….When I saw Naomi Campbell for the first time I looked at her all the time and I had to write it to my mom. Eva Herzigova came to me and started to chat with me… They are get used to that somebody new come among them every season.

Czech models. There is a lot of Czech models in fashion. What the others (nationalities) think about that?
They asked me – Where are you from? I responsed – from the Czech rep. and they said – Yet again!? )) We leads together with Russian models….

Modeling reminds me tennis. All players are at the same place in one moment and another month the same group is at different part of the world… together again…You are right. We are such a little family We know each other. We meet every day, but not so often to give us a pain…

You’ve got season… like sportsmen…
Yes, we’ve got two: spring/summer and fall/wimter. Every season has four main fashion weeks – New York, London, Milan and Paris. And also Madrid, Tokio, …. which are not so important.

Where do you get energy?From fruit and vitamins.

What about your name? Would you be able to change it? Isn’t it too Czech for next world celebrity?
)) They call me Hana Banana abroad. It rhymes. Or Hana Suprkova instead of Soukupova. These are my nicknames, but I won’t change my name!

I’m millionairess till my seventeen

In contrast to Karolina Hana appeals to be shy. On the first sight she looks like an ordinary girl. Only her 182 cm high figure, endlessly long legs and slim body can disclose that she could be a topmodel. Her delicate cut of a jib like from impressionistic painting and her pale deep blue eyes gained the 5th place among succesful beauties. And fees in millions (dollars?), but she doesn’t like to talk about it.

We‘ve met for the first time three years ago. When your agent Lenka Jochová waited for the right moment. Today you are on the top. What has changed during the three years?
A lot. I get used to different style of living, to new job… But I still miss my home and family. Few months ago I have bought a new apartment here in America. I’m very happy about that.

You live in America many years. Why did you buy the apartment this year? You didn’t have money?
It wasn’t a main problem. I didn’t think about the future. I din’t know if I want to settle down here.

How much is an apartment in Manhattan?
I don’t have to say it, do I?

But it would be interesting for Czech readers…
I really don’t want to talk about it.

How large is it? How does it look like?
There are two bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms. Nice kitchen.

Do you live alone there?
Not yet. It is beeing reconstruceted now. I would move in next year. Till the time I live in subletting.

Why all the pretty succesful girls don’t want to talk about money?
It is the same if I asked you about your wages. It is your private thing… I just don’t talk about it.

How and when you earned your first million?
I don’t remember it…. In seventeen – maybe.

What do you spend the most of money on? Exept your apartment….
Maybe for restaurants, which I like visiting. These are quiet expensive in New York. I like exotic cuisine – Japanese, Korean, Thai.

Do you have some friends in America?
I have one American friend. She is really great!I see her almost every day.

Is she a model?
No, but we have met in agency.

Have you got a boyfriend?
No, I haven’t. But I don’t complain of free time. I can choose a jobs more… Agency accepts only the best contracts for me. For example American Vogue – just the best magazines… So I have more time for me.

American Vogue was your unrealizable dream. Because they choose the celebrities on the cover mostly…
Yes… I was seventeen. It was my dream.

It came true. What is your dream now?
I’d like some cosmetic campaign. I’ve shot for Gucci, Versace, MaxMara, cosmetic campaign for Dior…

You have the same colour and lenght of hair for various years. Is it in your contract?
Not strictly. Bur according to the contract. I wouldn’t undergo any (sharp? expressive? marked?) changes.

Have you ever have taste to cut your hair (to short hair)?
I will do it when I ended in modeling.

Do you have any idea when you finish?
I’d love to continue as long as possible. I love it!

What you want to do then?
I’d like to open an art gallery in Manhattan.

How did you spend summer?
Greatly. I went home. All the time I really enjoyed I was at home.

Have you seen any Czech movie recently?
No. I like watching news, walking dogs…

How do you keep yourself fit?
I eat everything. I go to the gym every second day for hour or two.

Your skin – is it a gift from nature?
Yes it is. Everybody is surprised that my skin is still so clean, eventhough I shoot a lot and I change make-up a lot.

What do you miss in America? What is different from home?
I miss nature and clean environmental air. Czech mentality. American people are too talkative and everything take hard. On the other hand a lot of things are on higher level – like fashion. Czech people are more conservative.

How does your usual day look like?
When I work I have to be at 9am in studio. I wake up at 6 am. I have cornflakes and fruit and nuts or eggs or yogurt. Sometimes I go to gym between breakfast and work. Then they do make-up, hair… around 11 we start to shoot. At 2 pm I have a lunch and at 8 pm we usually finish. But sometimes we finish at 2 am….

And what about your free time?
I go to the restaurant with friends. We have a dinner or we go to the cinema. I like sitting in the park and just watching people.

Do your parents think that you have changed?
I’m more communicative. I’m not so shy.

What is a best compliment you get(this word?)?
Oh my God… I don’t know! Maybe that I’m a fine girl. It wasn’t connected with my appearence. Maybe somebody liked how I was inside. I’m happy when somebody tells me that I’m fine and I’m not arrogant.