Porizkova: 'I'm no dumb model'

Paulina Porizkova has said that she feels the need to prove her intelligence all the time because of the industry she works in.

The model, who recently criticised America's Next Top Model after she was not asked to return as a judge, said that she wants to get rid of the stereotype that models are stupid.

Porizkova wrote in a blog for Modelinia.com: "I admit that thanks to a career choice that required not much more than showing up with clean hair and shaved legs, I have a bit of an inferiority complex in the education department. I feel the need to constantly prove I'm not some dumb model."

The 44-year-old, who left school at 15 to start her career, added: "Probably because of my inferiority complex, I tend to bypass the magazine articles my friends prefer as beach reads and head straight for the books."