Why did you choose to take up this project?
I love to learn in life. I have modelled for many years, but teaching girls was something new. It was fun and exciting, and I’ve learned from them, too. So I had a good time.

What are the hurdles that an upcoming model faces? In your own life, how did you tackle them?
The common challenge is to overcome insecurity. Especially when you’re young, you don’t have that confidence to trust or love yourself. Even those girls who seem to be very strong and maybe sometimes arrogant, is simply insecure. I t relates to my beginnings as well, when I used to be very insecure and didn’t like myself at all. I didn’t think that I was pretty... The beginnings are always hard. But if you work hard enough, then slowly the results come through. New York wasn’t the first country I visited outside the Czech Republic. But the next time I came back to New York, it was for a booking. So things do happen. You just have to keep on trying.

Apart from this programme what are the other projects that you are involved with?
I am reading a script, but it’s nothing really exciting. But I have a lot of different projects on hand. I do public speaking at universities and different venues. There’s another project which I’m just launching — a calendar of Czech supermodels, with Gilles Bedsimon, who is a world renowned photographer.