For a world-class top model, every extra kilo is a problem for Kurková at the peak of her career she collected fourteen! “I was twenty-four and I was told to slow down because I didn’t look healthy,” Kurková admitted to the Daily Mail.
“I was eating healthy and exercising, so I went to the doctor. They told me I had Hashimoto’s disease,” the model recalled. “It’s a thyroid problem and the trigger is stress. Working under pressure makes everything worse. I gained thirty pounds,” added Kurková. (In conversion, it is almost 14 kilograms – editor’s note)
In order to continue modeling and feel good again, Kurková worked on her health. “I studied nutrition, I did yoga, I was ready to sleep and meditate, I did it all,” she entrusted her recipe for a healthy lifestyle. “As for exercise, I exercise for about thirty to forty minutes every day,” she added. It is precisely thanks to her regimen and adherence to it that even at the age of forty, Karolína is pocketed by her much younger colleagues.
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Karolína Kurková was at the peak of her career in the 90s of the last century, often appearing on the cover of Vogue magazine, she also worked for the underwear brand Victoria’s Secret.
Miracle pregnancy
Considering her illness, it was almost a miracle that she gave birth to a son in 2009 without any problems. “I was really lucky to get pregnant naturally because it’s very difficult when a woman has Hashimoto’s disease,” explained the now three-time mother of sons Tobin (14), Noah (8) and daughter Luna Grace (3). Kurková has all her children with her husband, film producer Archie Drury (53).
What is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?
It’s about autoimmune inflammatory disease of the thyroid glandwhich is the most common cause of reduced thyroid function in areas with sufficient iodine supply, the so-called hypothyroidism. Symptoms of the disease appear with the development of hypothyroidism – it is about weight gain, increased sensitivity to cold and fatiguewith more severe hypothyroidism and cognitive function disorders.
