Born October 14, 1970, and raised in the Czech Republic, Daniela
Pestova grew up in the midst of political bedlam. Lucky she
came from an upper class family and by the time she was 19
years old, she ended up getting discovered by the Madison
Modeling Agency's Dominique Caffin in Prague.
Although she had originally planned to attend college and get her degree
in Education, after being spotted going into a theater, Daniela
was asked to enter a modeling contest. As is no surprise,
considering she is 5'11" and beautiful, Daniela won the
contest and soon rushed off to Paris to sign up with Dominique's
modeling agency.
In 1990, Daniela began making her mark by appearing in Guess?
ads alongside Claudia Schiffer, and as is quite evident, just
about every Guess? model eventually turns into a bigtime model.
Three years after being discovered, Daniela decided to move to New
York - even though she didn't speak a word of English. Nevertheless,
her career took off and she began appearing on the covers
of such reputable magazines as Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan,
Glamour and Elle.
It was in 1994 that Daniela landed a huge contract with the noted
cosmetics company L'Oreal and became their model and spokesperson
- obviously she had learned to speak the language by this
time.