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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 21: Model Paulina Porizkova attends the "Hugo" premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 21, 2011 in New York City.  (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage) Paulina Porizkova.

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Paulina Porizkova: Models Used to Take Sexual Harassment As a Compliment

Paulina Porizkova is featured in About Face, a documentary focused on the modeling industry during the seventies and eighties, which is set to premiere at Sundance next month. Her take on the times is not so pleasant: "What people called sexual harassment, we called compliments ... When a 16-year-old girl is flattered by a man pulling out his penis, that’s noteworthy."

Photo: Jim Spellman/WireImage