Eva Herzigová (born March 10, 1973) is a Czech supermodel and actress.
Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czech Republic, and she began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased. Her first important appearance was the Wonderbra campaign in 1990s. She was also featured in Guess? jeans advertisements. She has also appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog and Sports Illustrated. She was a member of Thomas Zeumer's Metropolitan Models. Herzigová has also appeared in several movies. She posed nude for Playboy in August 2004. In 2006 she was Venus at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
She married Tico Torres, the drummer from Bon Jovi, in September 1996, in a lavish wedding attended by, among others, Donald Trump. The pair divorced in June 1998. Since 2000, she was romantically linked with Guy Oseary, the CEO of Maverick Records.
On 1 June 2007, Herzigová and her boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj welcomed a son in Turin.
She is signed to Storm Model Management in London, and 1/One Management in New York City.
In 2003, Eva Herzigova sued Canadian retailer La Senza for a breach of contract. La Senza refused to pay her for a catalog photo shoot because the company did not like her appearance. Herzigova had cut her hair short and lost a substantial amount of weight which were not the conditions in which they booked her. Herzigova sued La Senza for £20,000 because she felt that she fulfilled her part of their agreement and claimed her new look didn't prevent her from obtaining modeling work.
Herzigova is fluent in Czech, Russian, English, and French. She is a potter and has owned a computerized kiln. Her face appears on the cover of Powderfinger's album, Vulture Street.
Louis Vuitton released a handbag called the Eva, inspired by the model.