Petra Nemcova Was born on 24th June 1979 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic, is a Czech model, television host, author, and philanthropist. Petra Nemcova is the founder and chair of the Happy Hearts Fund. In December 2004, Petra Nemcova was injured in Thailand by a tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; her then-fiance, photographer Simon Atlee, was killed in the tsunami.