Petra Nemcova and her partner Dmitry Chaplin danced the Quickstep to the sound of “Viva Las Vegas” by Elvis Presley at the Dancing With The Stars Season 12 week 5 dedicated to the US of A and patriotism on Monday (April 18)- watch video below.

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Petra is the sweetest thing ever! The supermodel, who broke the curse for tall and beautiful women on the show, confessed that she never heard Elvis’ music while growing up in her home country of Czech Republic. Petra got a difficult and fast dance, can she nail it?

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Carrie Ann Inaba thought Petra took a step back and had a few stumbles, saying the two partners were a bit out of sync. Len Goodman told Petra that she needs to work on little things here and there, and said she coped well with the speed of the music. Bruno loved it, saying Petra was the golden goddess of speed and compared her to some fancy and fast cars.

Petra Nemcova Breaks Dancing With The Stars Supermodel Curse

Score: 22 (7+7+8)

Last week: Petra Nemcova Angry Paso Doble On Dancing With The Stars (VIDEO)

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Supermodel Petra Nemcova’s long legs, elegance, smile and bubbly personality enchanted the judges and the public at home on Dancing With The Stars. And that is the secret to break an eleven season long curse on the show.

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“What curse?” Petra says. “I don’t think about that.” The 31 year-old becomes the first supermodel to last five weeks in the competition, beating Rachel Hunter, Kathy Ireland, Paulina Porizkova and Josie Maran.

Petra pointed out that her professional dance partner, Dmitry Chaplin, is to blame for her success on DWTS. “You can look at it in different ways. Perhaps Dmitry knows how to work with tall people,” Petra said.

Petra Nemcova Angry Paso Doble On Dancing With The Stars (VIDEO)

Petra is always so modest and sweet. She is loving being a part of the show and thinks her dance evolution is a miracle. Dmitry is a dance God! The two work great as a dancing couple.

“I am learning how to move my body to music and it’s very hard work but it’s very rewarding,” she says. “I was worried in the beginning because I was unbalanced, un-centered, uncoordinated. I couldn’t do two things at once. But now when I do it, it feels so amazing.”

Good luck, Petra!!

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What the heck happened to Petra Nemcova?  That was the question that struck me when seeing these photos from Fashion Week in NYC.  Petra, believed by many to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, looked far from it.  Perhaps she was just having a bad day.  I keep waiting to hear that this is not actually her in the photo and just a bad imposter.

If you are craving Petra from her glory days (not that long ago) then check her out HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

More of Petra’s Fashion Week Disaster

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Supermodel Petra Nemcova, actresses Rosario Dawson and Anne Hathaway are opening up to PEOPLE magazine about the controversy Jennifer Love Hewitt started with her MySpace blog in response to photographs taken of Hewitt in a black bikini while vacationing in Hawaii.

• Model Petra Nemcova: “There are different angles that everybody, even if you’re in great shape, can look bad in a photograph. And printing these images is definitely influencing people’s minds – the stars themselves, but also the people who are reading and looking at the images, the teenagers. It’s definitely good that she spoke out.”

• Rosario Dawson: “They’ll make a whole story about it if someone gains 5 lbs. … It think there is a huge obsession with size-zero jeans, and it’s just really scary. I don’t really know where that comes from. We’re not really in the Twiggy era anymore. It makes me really nervous, because I don’t know how in the world we’re supposed to be that thin unless we’re totally starving and drugging up.”

• Anne Hathaway: “[As an actress], most of the year, your body is your own. But to be ridiculed for it is upsetting. But to also have to defend it or explain it or rejoice in it or put it down, or to be expected to have a public opinion about it … I don’t understand when that happened. I don’t think women should only be defined by their bodies and their weight. It’s a cycle we’ve been in for some time, and I don’t really like it.”

Petra you didn’t really go to bat for JLH. You sort of skirted the issue and said everyone can take a bad photo. Rosario and Anne, way to go to bat for your homegirl.  Personally I don’t think the photos were her best but they weren’t horrible either.  In direct sunlight the camera can be a mean beast.

I think sexy Cuban import Vida Guerra just might be illegal after seeing these pics of her in this insane club outfit.

Today is a great day for Sports Illustrated subscribers and readers. The mag’s annual Swimsuit Issue hits news stands. Be on the lookout for employees and co-workers taking longer than normal bathroom breaks. In a surprise move the editors put R&B singer Beyonce on the cover of the magazine….without a doubt to hopefully sell more copies. Click here to see Beyonce’s cover.

Another cool office contest (almost as cool as NCAA March Madness office pools) is to take bets on how long the issue will last at the office before someone pockets it and takes it home. For even more fun make additional bets on who it will be that cracks and walks out with the buxom issue.

Click to view more photos of some of Bumpshack’s favorite SI bikini hotties: Elle Macpherson, Molly Sims, Maria Sharapova, Rebecca Romijn, Petra Nemcova, Heidi Klum, Rachel Hunter, Carla Campbell, and Brooklyn Decker.

Don’t forget to check out these Hollywood celebs in bikini’s as well: Joanna Krupa, April Scott, Kate Hudson, Dannii Minoque, Kate Beckinsale, Sofia Vergara, Sheryl Crow, Petra Nemcova, Alessandra Ambrosio, Holly Valance, Myleene Klass, Jessica Alba, Ashlee Simpson, Penelope Cruz, Teri Hatcher, Lindsay Lohan, Uma Thurman, Alyssa Milano, Eva Longoria, Gisele Bundchen, Heather Locklear, Ingrid Vandebosch, Jessica Biel, Kristin Cavallari, Lucy Pinder, Mary Castro, Nicky Hilton, Nicole Kidman, Nicole Richie, Pamela Anderson, Torrie Wilson and Jessica Simpson

Pictured above: Elle Macpherson, Rebecca Romijn, Rachel Hunter, Daniela Pestova, Elsa Benitez, Carolyn Murphy, Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Veronica Varekova

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Petra Nemcova makes this average gold dress look spectacular. Anyone else wearing this dress would quite easily be our ‘Worst Dressed Celeb of the Day‘.

Petra Nemcova still claims to have strong feelings for James Blunt even with Blunt’s eyes and desires for multiple women.  Petra is labeled a super model but she rates out as just a bit above average here at the Bumpshack.  James at times resembles a short rat but his vocal talents can’t be denied.

If Petra Nemcova dumped James Blunt because he was cheating on her then he has the brain of a squirrel…..make that a crickett.

Sexy super-model Petra Nemcova admits to weight struggles. Nemcova says she naturally is not super then and has had to be on all kinds of crazy diets.

Model Petra Nemcova knows what it’s like to struggle to be a size zero in order to stay on the runway – and says she went on brutal diets and even took laxatives to stay thin.

“I went through so many diets in my life. I’ve been very, very skinny. I’ve been a size zero but I’m naturally more curvy,” she tells PEOPLE. “I ate just vegetables, carrots, tomatoes. I went from a just-protein diet to just eating apples to eating no carbs. I took laxatives. I went through all of it just to be able to model.”

Petra’s comments come on the wake of the ban on ultra-thin models in a Madrid fashion show.

It is funny to hear every designer come out now and say that they all prefer girls with curves. It is just not true, because if it were they would have been using girls and guys both who didn’t look like Skelator. Excuse the bitterness. Been there, done that.