Then and Now: Karolina Kurkova
June 29, 2011 in Hot Models, Karolina Kurkova, Then and Now by Versus
Left: Supermodel Karolina Kurkova back in 2007, when she had an athletic, stronger-looking figure.
Right: The same Karolina with less lbs in 2011.
The bikini pictures and the ones on the beach date from 2007 and the rest are brand new! See them all on the next page!
First
Too bad nobody gives a shit
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why didn’t you write a single word refering to the post?!
I guess those people are cruising around the internet and looking for new posts – regardless if they’re interested in the themes – to just write FIRST – YEHAAAAA
You didn’t write a single word referring to the post, either.
Liked her figure more in 2007. I think an athletics body should look like that, not the one in 2011. If she wants to be a model, keep to the superskinny frame. But if she really wants to be an athlete, she shouldn’t of lost the weight and stayed as she is.
Don’t mind the negative comments
KUDOS 
first of all she looks great in all shapes.
and now she really looks better then ever.
she has a fantastic personality and such a great model. i love the skinny look but she looked so much better before and i hate that maybe she has felt the pressure to be thinner than she was. unless it was just because she had a baby and decided to look more like she did before getting pregnant?
Nah, she has been scary skinny in the past…I have pictures of her from eons ago and she was skinnier than she is now. I wouldn’t be surprised if she has disordered eating habits
I like her better in the 2007 pics as well – she doesn’t have the vibrancy like she had now…still stunning tho
she doesn’t have the vibrancy now like she had then*
I think those pictures eons ago that you’re referring to are when she was a teenager, so it might have been just the fact that she wasn’t yet developed. A lot of the taller Slavic girls tend to be pretty lanky and thin growing up.
Scary skinny…. looked a lot better before ;/
Then she was a swimsuit model, now she has a high fashion look body.
I personally like both looks, it just depends on what project is she in to these days.
…and before swimsuit model, she was a HF model. Not, really, Karolina has always be HF, but she also has work for VS.
She has not a;ways been High Fashion: VS asnd Express are NOT and she was not working them at the same time. She high fashion when she was unknown, and a skinny slavic teen. She got noticed and VS, Express and a couple others put her on the map (wasn’t doing HF runway shows but doing some magazine stuff for HF designers…still VERY different from HF Runway…that’s for the uberskinny). Now she’s HF runway, hence being very thin, again…
she is pure head and pure teeth !
she is not the kind of girl who looks good being this thin (take Alessandra or Keira Knightley for example, they look great and healthy) but Karolina… she scared me, I liked her more with a little bit more of meat on her bones
Holy skeleton. She has definitely lost a lot of weight. She looks so good in those beach pictures. Slender with soft curves. I would love a body like that. I winced when I saw the gap in the last picture.
I feel sorry for her. She was being criticized about her weight back then. It’s awful, but most of all unnecessary! She now looks like she doesn’t eat at all.
I think she looked better before. It looks more natural on her while the thinner body looks a lot more forced.
I would love something in between.
I agree with the above posters: she looked better before.
I get this feeling when I see girls like her, who looks like this when they are looking freakishly skinny, like their head or something is going to explode out of their skin. I know, it’s really weird … But, she is looking waaay waay too skinny, much better before!
Shape and weight are two differ things!You can be a thick girl and be shapeless/assless and flat chested.You could also be skinny and have hips,shape to your body…but why do ppl always call this competition skinny vs curvy???
You can be thin and have curves. Skinny is the point where you’re so thin that it no longer is attractive
taraaaaan!! and thats what happens when everybody says Oh she looks so soft! she looks so fat for being a super model! she has cellulite!…everybody was saying that when she was a bikini model…the truth? she was perfect! now she looks ill…but know everybody says ohh she looks so skinny! nobody can please everyone.
her body was amazing!!!!!in the pics withe the white swimsuit she looks so perfect!i like the “skinny look” but it doesn’t suits her..it seems that she does so much effort to be that skinny..the gap between her legs is the biggest i’ve ever seen!
I prefer her body skinny, just my preference i didn’t really like her body in 2007. Evidently it’s does not appear her new weight is natural for her as she hasn’t always been this skinny, hopefully she is taking care of herself though.
Wow.Her lap area looks like Tar Reid`s, very Barbie-ish.Not good.
I get it that she’s in high fashion now and all, but her chest, legs and especially neck look very frail. She used to be so hot! Or is it her (hypo, or hyper)tyreoid thing?
sorry but in the left one she didn’t look athletic AT ALL. i don’t see any kind of muscle (definition), how can that look athletic?
I think she did look slightly athletic in the 2007 pics – she was toned, but not too muscly or too athletic. She still looked feminine and curvy. I think her body was amazing before the weight loss.
It’s beyond me how anyone can think she looks better at her current weight. She looks so good in the beach pics.
I wish I could “like” this comment 1000 times!
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there’s a miles gap between her legs…from model to clothes hanger…pity!
That “Mind the Gap” space between her thighs freaks me out too. Especially in the last photo she looks gorgeous in the beach photo’s but her face looks so different now extremely gaunt.
Karolina’s body is the typical Tracy Anderson body
I’ve been following her method for a month, and she really emphasises this teeny tiny dancer body. Karolina talks about working out with tracy in this link. http://www.fitsugar.com/Karolina-Kurkova-Baby-Weight-Tracy-Anderson-Green-Juice-8553324
Tracy Anderson kinda reminds me of Rachel Zoe, all her clients end up looking kinda similar!
another Tracy Anderson victim/client? Didn’t know that.
Agree with the Rachel Zoe comparison
Ah Tracy Anderson, if she is following her meal plan I’m not at all surprised she is that skinny, the calories are way to low and combined with the amount of exercise she recommends ( although I like her exercise videos and they are good) you are basically starving yourself.
I love tall and skinny girls, but these is too much and doesn’t look natural on her.
What’s weird though is that Tracy’s thighs do not look like this, they are much meatier. I like how KK looks in the beach pics but also in the silver dress. I have to say, her recent ad campaigns are some of her best work ever.
She looked better at her old weight, she’s too thin now. But, I will never like her face, the teeth and nose are just not pretty. Her body looks gorgeous in the second picture.
When Karolina walked in 2008 in Sao Paulo Fashion Week with a few extra kilos, she said she gained weight because of her thyroid problems. Maybe, she continues with uncontrolled thyroid and now makes her to lost too much weight. Anyway, in 2001 she was really skinny and walked for VS, you now, where the healthy models walked (little sarcasm), here are the photos: http://postimage.org/image/1j5fp3uys/
My family has problems with thyroid ( genetic predisposition ) hyperthyroidism to be exact, it’s the one that make you loss weight and it can be controlled with pills if it isn’t sever. My mom had to take them for sometime and now she is OK.
If Karolina gained weight she most likely has problem with Hypothyroidism, it’s a life long problem and it has to be controlled with pills forever, if she went off pills if she has the condition she would gain weight, not loss it.
However if you take too big of a doze you would loss weight, because tablets increase the production of thyroid hormone and make your metabolic rate faster. But no normal physician would allow too big dosage as it can be dangerous.
Unless they had improper dosing on the replacement meds, either way (hyper or hypo)
she had such a gorgeous body before! curvy but fit and lean too. some of the after pics are scary..her head look HUGE like a lollipop. her face is average.
much prefer her old figure – that said, she doesn’t look too bad in the silver dress at all! its just the candids in her leggings really show how thin she has got.
she looks much better when her face is fuller!
and thighs
wow… she looks so different. much skinnier. i think she looked a lot more lively and beautiful before in 2007. yes she may have had a little cellulite but give a girl a break, i’m sure she worked out then very rigorously and if you want to have curves and be a woman it comes with the territory.
now she just looks like she went through a machine that elongated and flattened her vertically… not natural and kind of freakish. hope she’s ok and knows she’s loved.
She is too thin now I like her figure in the before photo.
what is up with her belly button in the first picture
Is it Richard Branson with her on the 5th pic?! if so, lucky girl!
She looks frightening. It just looks unhealthy and it seems so unnecessary for any model to be this thin. Horrible
sad!
Jesus Christ, this is *exactly* why I never wanted to join the industry. The art part of it, lovely, but the pressure and the amount of ignorant disturbed people that you’re surrounded by, it’s sick. It makes you sick. Look at her, just look at this woman. My god… I’m genuinly sad and relieved at the same time. Sad for her, as she is quite obviously not well and you wonder what or who made her do this, and relieved because I refused to give into the pressure to join the industry and most likely end up like this. It’s frightening, it really is.
I wish her all the luck in the world, and the strength to get through – and hopefully – out of this.
She’s a super skinny Cello shape!
Her BMI can’t be more than 15. Sigh. (and YES, sticklers, I’m aware that BMI isn’t always an accurate indicator of health blah blah. But, wouldn’t you agree that she’s looking a bit ill?)
Fashion is nuts, the things it does to people. And while clothing is an interesting art form, it’s become this.. monster. If fashion was a dog, it’d be one of those pointless, tiny, over-bred pocket-dogs with mohawks.
I’m curious how you could estimate that by looking at her?
Her weight has fluctuated a lot trough the years. She was even skinnier before 2007, then gained weight, then lost weight…
Anyway she has always been gorgeous, heavier or skinnier .
She doesn’t look “right” at this low weight, it doesn’t look natural on her. Her head looks very big, her face looks very gaunt, her hips look very square. I find the gap between her thighs a bit too much. She looked better before.
It’s so sad that she lost all that weight when she looked so damn good before! I hate when already skinny gorgeous girls lose weight and don’t even realise it makes them look worse.
She has lost a TON of weight! She looks scary skinny but I don’t think she’s unhealthy..just obsessive about her body and food intake. And are those “recycle” pants really necessary? So pretentious
well, she is pretty both ways – so thin tho. But certain stretch=pants make you look a lot thinner! Anyone feel that way?
Oh my goodness. She is definitely too thin for my taste. She has a hhuugggeee gap between her legs and I don’t think it’s attractive at all. I loved her body before :\
Her weight now could definitely be classified as an anorexic weight. But who knows what her problem is… Since she’s getting older, she probably felt the pressure to become very skinny to compete with runway models now.
She should take a note from Elle Macpherson!
She ha s a beautiful face and I think she looks better with more weight on. She looks great in those 2007 pics – her body is perfect. She had curves but was still slim and healthy. She barely had any cellulite at all, and she looked toned but still feminine and not too athletic or muscly. Now she looks too skinny, I hope she’s ok. Some women look healthy when they’re skin, but others don’t. I’m not really a fan of the skinny look anyway.
I read she had a thyroid problem- that’s why she gained weight for a while… well that’s what she says anyway.
Although she was never fat, she was big for a VS model.
I want her thigh gap! So jealous lol
I wouldn’t say she was big for a VS model. Maybe compared to the ones now but when she first started out, a lot of them were around her size.
Also that gap is just disturbing.
wow ,,she look scary skinny now !!! look @ her legs @ the last pic ,,my god
she look better in 2007
i always thought karolina had such a STUNNING BODY!! such beautiful legs, sexy hips, nice butt, very long streched out pear,, awww doesnt get better than that imo,,
i prefer her when she was heavier but she looks better anyway,,
but her face,,, umm no comment lol
This makes me sad. She was only able to work at that gorgeous, healthy weight shown in 2007 because she was a VS girl. She’s only keeping herself at this scary-low weight because she needs to, in order to get HF work.
She’s a mother now, and yet she’s even thinner than when she started modeling at 15 years old. There is no muscle left in her thighs. Her face is gaunt. She’s not someone I enjoy looking at anymore (I thought she had one of the best bodies in modeling around 2007) – just another depressingly skinny runway automaton.
She does look really really skinny now. Still, I can’t help finding her absolutely gorgeous at her current weight, even being aware that her skininess is extreme.
However, what I’m having a hard time understanding is how could someone who is (hypothetically) pressuring herself to be unhealthily skinny could have had the guts a few years ago to walk the runway in a bikini, being much heavier than all of the other models, much heavier than she is now and than she used to be, and knowing that people would call her fat/chubby etc. As far as I know she had hypothyroidism back then, which explains the weight gain. But it just doesn’t make sense how someone who had the confidence to model, because she knew she was still taking care of herself (eating right, working out) so her body couldn’t be “wrong” despite the weight gain, would now be taking extreme mesures to conform to the industry’s standards.
I highly doubt she had an ED throught her career because if she did, she wouldn’t have kept modeling being fatter; she wouldn’t have had the assurance or the backbone to do it.
Idk, to me she’s just another naturally skinny model who on top of that diets (but doesn’t necessarily starve herself) and eats very clean.
I completely agree, she is still beautiful – even at this very low weight. I don’t find her gaunt looking and I have seen similar gaps on the streets of Warsaw…
This makes me sad. She looked so much better in 2007 it’s just incomparable to me. She looked lean but curvy back then and now she looks borderline starved. If this is what following this Tracy Anderson plan gets you, then I’m not sure I like it. All the women I have heard of that follow it just look too thin for my taste and the calories sound extremely low paired with the rigorous exercise – just not sure it’s truly healthy. And her thigh gap is disturbing!
Gwyneth Paltrow does Tracy Anderson’s plan, too.
Yes I know and I think she looked better before she followed Tracy Anderson. Just my opinion though.
I think she looks good both ways.
muuuuuuch better before, wow i didnt knew she used to look so good..
I honestly think she looks better as skinny, even though she is getting close to scary skinny. The weight goes to her mid section , arms and thighs in a way that make her lose the forms. She’s made for being the tall and skinny type. We all have different body shapes and look good at different weigts. We don’tall get the right curves.
Saying that she’s “made for being the tall and skinny type” isn’t quite right, i think. You just mean she looks better that way (in your opinion). Her body is “made” to function well, and it is most likely that it does this best at a slightly higher weight than this.
In the pics that Pinky posted i think she looked a little big, or maybe more untoned / flabby than big really (to be modeling bikinis). She looked great in the tank and shorts in the beach pics. Now, too skinny for my liking, but i admit she looks awesome in the silver dress, though it’s more about the look, i’d quite certainly dig the look if she was at her 2007 weight too.
Wow, could those legs be any skinnier? I have to admit I like those long thin legs, but at the same time I think they are too thin. She looked better, healthier and more feminie before…
The Tracy Anderson method is definitely not to blame for her excessive weight loss. After Karolina had been let go from her VS contract in 2007 or 2008 because of her weight gain due to her thyroid problem she had to go back to being a high fashion model to put food on the table per say which is sad because her body had already changed and bigger than high fashion model measurements. Yes she was thin like this before but that was when she was really young doing 120 shows a year.
I really wish VS wouldn’t have let her go…
um … where are her legs ?
I love Karolina Kurkova..I don’t think she’s beautiful in a ‘pretty’ sort of way but she is stunning. She definitely looked better before..I used to think she was one of those healthy models that cared more about health than being skinny.
When will these models learn being slim & athletic is way better than being stick thin….People will kill to have her former physique.
When the fashion industry increases its sample sizes. Paris doesn’t care about athletic and everyone in the fashion industry knows that sample sizes there are evern smaller than regular. There’s no way the ‘old’ Carolina would fit into Balenciaga whom she walked for recently…
It’s not her fault, she doesn’t actuallt have a choice if she wants to keep working.
Karolina didn’t walk Balenciaga recently… I think the last time she did Balenciaga was for the Fall 2001 collection.
Plus, what gives money to the models is ad campaigns, and Karolina got 5 last season (Bottega Veneta, Jean Paul Gaultier, Max Mara, Mercedes Benz, and John Frieda). I think Karolina has a name in the fashion world important enough to don’t need to have a perfect body, she is KK, if they want her to walked a show, she won’t do casting and hours of fitting or anything. Almost like Kate Moss (she walked with cellulite last season, and she was great, b/c she is Kate Moss. Period)
If she is that thin is because she wants to, why she wants to, I don’t know.
And for those who say the fashion world just want skinny models, want to say that Karlie Kloss, Frida G. and Jac are the most in demand models on the runways, and are not skeletal.
I thought I saw her in the Balnciaga show 2 seasons ago but I might have been mistaken so my bad.
She did walk for Chanel resort and Louis Vuitton. She is famous but to keep working she has to keep a certain standard. I am very aware that catwalk doesn’t pay but they pay the big girls. Kate Moss famously hates doing shows so I doubt she did it out of the goodness of her heart (even though her and Jacobs are friends.)
Having big names in your catwalk brings publicity like when KK and Claudia and some others walked for the Vuitton collection isnpired by mad men.
Jac is skinny and also a young teen as is Frida, Karlie looks pretty healthy. Also, candid images of those girls give a much better indication of their thinness.
KK is very famous in the fashion world but she has to compete as there are other names coming up that can outshine her. Daria Werbowy was very skinny when she did catwalk but since taking a break her body has become fuller.
All I’m saying is that I’m sure she feels pressure from herself as well as the indistry to be a certain size. (:
sorry meant slim and healthy not slim and atheltic
She’s older than the average model so I think she felt pressure to conform to the idustry ideal in order to keep working. Just like Claudia Schiffer who was curvy before but is now stick thin…They’re not ready to say say good bye to modelling and being this skinny is the way to carry on working.
Carolina looked like really womanly and grown up before but I guess it was her choice to slim down this much.
They say that the thinness of Claudia is caused by her marital problems …
She’s looking nearly emasciated now….liked her better in 2007!
I think her legs are naturally slimmer than the rest of her. shocking. she has lost a lot of weight. not sure how this looks in person
I would guess she lost about 25lbs. She’s not that pretty but the lower weight suits her far better than Claudia Schiffer.
That’s because claudia schiffer is over a decade older, this girl will only look worse with age if she remains at such a low weight.
OMG! I didn’t know she’s that young, she’s even slightly younger than me. I thought she would be in her 30′s!
Dear god, she’s way too skinny for my taste now. In the picture where she’s posing with a man, her teeth are the biggest part of her body and it’s a bit scary.
It’s sad that they’re put into a position where they’re either too fat or too skinny, when they look perfect and healthy the industry doesn’t praise them for that ideal.
I think she looked better in 2007. She looks tired in the first pic with the silver dress. I understand that she is a model and models are thin, but I really liked her thin/athletic look better.
Without a shadow of a doubt she looked better in 2007, but if she is doing catwalk modelling this is the look that is required at present.
It would be great if industry standards changed, even allowing just a couple extra inches to the standard 32-24-34, especially when most of these models are 5ft9+.
Kim Kardashain says she does the Tracey Anderson Method and she isn’t skinny and doesn’t have as much muscle tone as Gwenth Paltrow. I know KK is short,
but so is Shakira and she does Tracey Anderson too
and I see big changes in Shakira’s body but not in
Kim’s. I don’t know if it depends on the person or what?
This picture http://modelcandids.com/2011/06/karolina-kurkova-out-in-miami/karolina-kurkova-out-in-miami/ was taken 9 days before the photo with the cap and black pants, and yes she is thin, but does not look so bad IMO.
Wow she’s so skinny now. I prefer Karolina then.
I think she looks beautiful and healthy both ways. She definately doesn’t deserve the criticism. It’s kinda cool the way she slimmed down. No harsh muscles coupled with jutting bones (like LeAnn Rimes). She appears longer and sleeker. How is it scary skinny lol?
Before she was beautiful and now she still is. New look, but I like it. And it isn’t a crime to lose weight haha.
She had a BMI of probably 19 before. Now she has one of about 15-16. There are many, many, many serious health risks involved with being that thin, even if it is ‘natural’ (ie you are not undereating to the point that your health is directly compromised or your life is in danger). That is why it is not healthy.
Now, I think for her, she is naturally super-slim and was actually lifting weights to maintain her VS weight (when she was still thinner than some 90% of the adult American population) – I doubt she is starving to death or going to get very ill, from being this thin. But undoubtedly she is not doing any weight-bearing exercises and must follow a certain diet to keep her naturally shapely legs so very stick-like.
LeAnn is probably much better off health-wise, because while she is too thin for her frame and has low body fat for a woman, she actually HAS some muscle mass, unlike Karolina, who is just bones with a little bit of fat covering them. Muscle mass is one of the biggest factors in recovery from illness and injury, and in longevity.
She’s said before that she has thyroid disease and it’s very hard for many to maintain a certain weight with thyroid disease. Many times it involves constant medication changes just to feel normal, then six month later your thyroid changes again and you’re back to square one. It’s very frustrating.
I don’t understand why everyone like modles and Hollywood actresses want to be so skinny just because people will only accept that these days. Their bodies all look the same. She looked so much better with weight on her. Now she’s so skinny , it looks unattractive . Think for yourself and don’t mold yourself to others just because they think skinny is everything
i think she looks better now– a little to thin maybe a 5 pounds weight gain would do her good, but i like her body more now than before
OMG her body looked soooo sexy before!!
didn’t she gain a lot of weight a while back because of this ” the thyroid disorder hypothyroidism”? That’s apparently why she gained the extra weight which made people call her “fat”.
But tbh.. i think she looks better now, or the way she looked before she gained the weight. She looked OK i 2007, but so untoned and a little flabby…
You think those photos of her on the beach look ‘untoned’ and a little flabby? Are we even looking at the same pictures : /
lol way better before
Her legs look almost the same as mine, when I had anorexia and weighed 32 kilograms.
Except she’s like 15 cm taller.
And she’s older.
AND SO FOOLISH.
Let’s face it, we don’t know her and for all we know she is ill or stressed out, which causes some people to lose weight. She could be going through a rough patch, so let’s be kind, please?
All I can think is if a camera adds 10 lbs, then what must this weight on her look like in person?
I just hope her natural weight and build is this slim (current weight and pre-2007 weight gain) and that she is healthy. Also, once you get to a certain age being too slim just ages the face so I hope she isn’t underweight for taht reason too, because that will be her livelyhood gone.
What world do you live in, it is obvious that a lot of people
DO NOT look better thinner!!!
name one fat person thats preety…everyone looks better thin and toned..deal
People have different body types. Not all of them are meant to be thin and look sickly forcing themselves to be thin when they are meant to be larger naturally. You may think thin is the only attractive look but it’s not reality.
okk watev..lol
Karolina is not thin and toned. She is extremely skinny with clear signs of muscle wastage. And there are more weights than fat and skinny, a whole lot more.
Very first picture: where is her belly-button?!?
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This isn’t really a fair then and now. Karolina was always crazy skinny with long legs–that’s what made her famous as a model. She went through a relatively brief period in which she had a reported “thyroid problem” and her weight fluctuated. If you remember, everyone was freaking out then about how much weight she had gained…because she was never like that before. So she’s simply gone back to where she always seemed to be. You’re presenting this as if, “Here’s Karolina at a healthy weight (larger) and here she is today (skinny).” But according to Karolina, the photos where she’s bigger are the exception and the weight gain was due to a medical issue.
WHERE IS HER BELLY BUTTON? all of her photos ever in a swimsuit or whatever,her belly button is not there???!!! tummy tuck anyone?
ya where is her belly button? it’s just gone.
I think she looked better before – athletic and healthy. Now she just looks scary skinny. :/ I wouldn’t personally want legs THAT thin. Yes, she looks more like most high-fashion models now, but I’m not really a fan of this look.
She can go either way. She looks great both ways! I really like her. She’s always been one of my favorite models.
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