Kamila Brenkova

Photographs by Antoine Verglas

Where you’ve seen her:
In a handful of commercials and modeling her way around the world.

Get real:
“Life is very settled in the Czech Republic. The people may not seem very friendly at first—like Americans do—but there’s much more realness about them. They become friendly, but only after you get to know them. They’re not fake.”

Watch your mouth:
“I hate it when a man tries to pick me up with some stupid comment. Sometimes I get rude if a man just comes up to me and says, ‘Are you a model?’ It depends on the guy, though. Sometimes I’ll just tell him, ‘As a matter of fact…’”

Buff history buff:
“Prague is one of the few European cities that wasn’t destroyed by bombs in the Second World War, so they’ve been able to preserve a lot of the history, which I find beautiful.”

October 2001 (#46)