The supermodel revealed that moving from Czechoslovakia to Sweden as a child gave her "trauma" about moving
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- Paulina Porizkova clarified in an Instagram post that her lease is ending and was not renewed, calling the situation “privileged people problems”
- The TV personality previously said she was being “evicted” four days before her wedding and would have nowhere to come home to afterward
- Porizkova and fiancé Jeff Greenstein have multiple housing options after their wedding, including her country house and his Los Angeles home
Paulina Porizkova is clarifying her comments about being "evicted" from her apartment.
In a Thursday, May 26 Instagram post, the model, 61, walked back previous comments about the circumstances of her and fiancé Jeff Greenstein having to move out of her New York City apartment just days before their wedding in Italy.
"Strictly speaking, we're not getting evicted evicted" Porizkova says in the video. "My lease expired, and my landlord just didn't want to renew it for any amount of time except for a full year, which we didn't want to do."
"So it's really on us. I feel bad about of all of you who have such great sympathy for us, when in fact, it's privileged people problems," she adds.
On the May 20 episode of the couple's Twenty Good Summers podcast, Porizkova said she "begged" her landlord to extend the lease, raising alarms with fans.
“We're kind of getting evicted because my landlord, no matter how great a tenant I was for six years, he didn't really want to give us an extension on the lease — even though I begged and pleaded,” Porizkova said. “And so we have to move out of here four days before we get married in Italy."
“Not great,” said Greenstein, 62.
“Not great,” Porizkova echoed. "We also come back from our wedding and have nowhere to live."
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In her May 28 Instagram video, Porizkova opened up about having "a bit of PTSD" about moving, stemming from her childhood.
At nine years old, the TV personality says her grandmother took her from her native Czechoslovakia to Sweden to live with her parents.
"I was nine and I didn't know what was happening, and I couldn't go back to Grandma, and I couldn't go back and see my friends," said Porizkova. "It was actual trauma. "
"Pretty much every move that i've made has felt traumatic in the sense that my life ended and then it started somewhere else," she continued.
Six years ago, she moved into her current apartment.
"This has been the place where I got to regrow, rebuild myself into the woman that I am now. And so it feels a little extra special because it's my safety zone," she said.
Despite her attachment to the apartment, she feels ready to leave with Jeff by her side.
"I know I'm ready to leave, because I have somebody whom stands next to me hand in hand, and together we can absolutely brave whatever comes our way," she said. "So thank you for your sympathy, I don't deserve it. I'm not homeless. Well, I mean, not technically. And we'll be perfectly fine."
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In the podcast episode, the couple acknowledged that they have several homes between them where they can live upon returning from Italy.
“I do have a country house that I co-own with my sons [Jonathan, 32, and Oliver, 28]. And so we can move up there, which is kind of further away from New York City. [But] I despise being locked up there because that's what happened in COVID when my life fell apart.”
They also have Greenstein's house in Los Angeles, which they are in the process of selling. "For the time being, we can go there,” Porizkova said.
Porizkova was married to Ric Ocasek, the late frontman for The Cars, for 28 years. They announced their split in May 2018. Greenstein proposed to the model in July 2025 after two years of dating. The couple went Instagram official with their romance in May 2023, three months into their relationship.
Days later, the model reflected on her journey to finding love again.
"Meeting someone special and falling in love wasn't with a wave of a magical wand. It was the result of really hard work," she said. "I've spent the last three years being single and getting over the belief I was not worthy of love. I had been told I was too needy. Too crazy. Or alternatively, too cold and critical. Part of this 'getting over the wrong beliefs' was what many call learning to love yourself. Honestly, I don't love myself any more or less than I have always done. But I understand myself a whole lot better."
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