When she was still a toddler, her parents fled Czechoslovakia and moved to Lund
in Sweden. They left her under the care of her grandmother, believing she could be brought out later, which wasn't allowed by the Communist regime. Her mother then secretly returned to Czechoslovakia, but was detained by the police. When Swedish politician
Olof Palme put pressure on the Czechoslovakian government, the Porizkova family was finally reunited after 6 years.
