On yesterday’s edition of The Wendy Williams Show (nationally syndicated, check your local listings) former supermodel Paulina Porizkova joined Wendy to chat about everything from being fired from America’s Next Top Model to her role on Desperate Housewives. Sound bites from her appearance are pasted below.
Paulina on Tyra Banks and on appearing on and being fired from ‘America’s Next Top Model’:So, you and Tyra [Banks] went to dinner to talk about appearing on the show, was it just you two?The two of us and her assistant.
WW: And what did you talk about?
PP: Her. – No, I mean, it was cool. I was fascinated. She is the hardest working woman I think I have ever met. She doesn’t sleep.
WW: …So, then you got fired. How did they fire you?
PP: Over the phone, a day before my birthday. Poor supermodel.
WW: Did Tyra call you?
PP: No, Tyra did not call me – I got a call from the producers. They didn’t actually say this, I paraphrase this, but basically said ‘the show needs to cut some fat, and you’re the fat.’ … this is the way I say it, because I thought it sounded cool. But two days later I see all over the blogs: ‘Paulina gets fired because she is fat.’ And I think, ‘Do people not know what a metaphor is?’
Paulina on her role on ABC’s ‘Desperate Housewives’:
WW: So, how did you get that gig on Desperate Housewives?
PP: Perhaps they thought I was a desperate housewife.
WW: Well, you are knitting with a martini at ten o’ clock in the morning.
PP: I am! That’s how I got the gig, they must have heard [about] it!You play a model friend.
PP: Excuse me, I play me! Paulina Porizkova, the model. It was funny, because when we were shooting the scene – I think I tend to be a lot more goofy than people think that I am – and after a couple of tries, the director asked if I would be a little cooler, a little colder. And I was like ‘You mean a little more like Paulina Porizkova Estee Lauder ice queen?’ And he’s like ‘Yeah, kind of.’
Courtesy of The Wendy Williams Show