Soon after she was discovered in the streets of Prague, her modeling career took off and is now signed to Next Model Management in London, Paris, Milan, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.Not surprisingly, Nemcova also had offers to grace the world of television. In 2001, she appeared in the British television series Absolutely Fabulous, followed by guest appearances on various programs before she became the host of TLC's A Model Life. In 2011, she joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars season 12. Nemcova, who lost her fiance photographer Simon Atlee during the December 2004 tsunami in Thailand, is also a philanthropist. In fact, she founded the Happy Hearts Fund (HHF), a charitable organization that aims to help victims of tsunamis and earthquakes.