ADELA CAPOVA
I was discovered on a Prague subway by a modeling agent and shortly after signed a contract. I was in high school one minute and all set to start medical school when I graduated; the next minute I was flying around Europe—to Athens, Istanbul, and Hamburg—before settling in Milan. It didn’t take long for me to realize that juggling medical school with modeling was going to be impossible.
I was always a curvy girl. I’m only 5-foot-8 and, even at the age of sixteen, I was called fat to my face by agency staff more than once. Their advice was to only drink water and eat apples.
Then I found running. I started packing my sneakers whenever I traveled and squeezing in a run whenever I could. The benefits were obvious; I felt happier, more active, fitter, and more positive. I started looking at food as fuel and treating my body like an athlete, not a model.
NATIONALITY: Czech
LIVES IN: New York, NY, USA
CERTIFICATIONS: Institute for Integrative Nutrition, AADP Drugless Practitioner, NASM Fitness Trainer
FAVORITE WAYS TO MOVE: Running, dance cardio, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing
KITCHEN MUST-HAVE: Lemons
SEEN IN/KNOWN FOR: Wonderbra, L’Oréal, Gap, Avon, Nivea, Clairol, H&M, Vichy, Lovable, Elle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, GQ
