'80s Supermodel Sets the Record Straight on Her Eviction, Thanks Fans for 'Overwhelming' Kindness
Paulina Porizkova doesn't want you to feel sorry for her. After complaining on Instagram about being evicted less than a week before her wedding to Jeff Greenstein, she was stunned at the outpouring of support and kindness she received. So, on May 28, she decided to explain that while she was disappointed, there was no one to blame.
"A few days ago, I posted about Jeff and I getting evicted, a few days before we fly to Italy to get married," she began her video. "And so, strictly speaking, we're not getting evicted evicted. My lease expired, and my landlord just didn't want to renew it for any amount of time except for a full year, which we didn't want to do."
"So, it's really on us," Porizkova, 62, continued. "I feel bad about all of you who have such great sympathy for us, when in fact, it's privileged people problems. And though it is a sort of a privileged people problem, I have to admit that I have a bit of PTSD about moves."
The '80s supermodel may have exaggerated being evicted, but her trauma related to moving is very real. The first time the supermodel moved, she was just nine years old. However, she didn't just move to a different town or city. She moved to an entirely different country, far from the grandmother who had "acted as my mother for my whole life," she explained.
Escaping the Soviet Union
Porizkova was born in Czechoslovakia, and when she was three years old, the Soviet Union invaded the country. Her parents escaped to Sweden, while she stayed behind with her grandma. Three years later, her parents went to the press and Sweden's government, begging for help to get their daughter out.
"I became famous in Sweden as like, little Paulina, poor little Paulina," she told Craig Ferguson during a 2025 appearance on his Joy podcast.
After a failed attempt to pick her up on her way to school, her mother was put on house arrest and lived with Porizkova and her grandmother. By the time she was 9, they reunited with her dad in Sweden, but he had met someone else, so the joy was short-lived.
A Full-Circle Farewell
She lived in Sweden with her mom and younger brother until she was 15, and then she began her modeling career in Paris. Two years later, she was renting her first New York City apartment, which, in a full-circle moment, is in the very same building she's now leaving.
"Across this wall right here is the very first apartment that I rented when I was 17 years old, and I moved to New York," she noted.
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This story was originally published May 28, 2026 at 2:48 PM.