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She literally swept men off their feet when she appeared on the cover of Man's World, a high-profile lifestyle magazine, a couple of months ago.

Those who saw her stunning photograph wondered whether she belongs to India. If it's so, how come her body has European traits? If she isn't, what has been she doing here in India? The guessing game went on, but Yana would not have complained. She was the talk of the town and enjoyed the limelight.

Of course, it was not a flash in the pan experience for Yana who is already an established model. What makes her so sexy, I ask her. "People tell me my eyes, but I don't think so. I don't think I am sexy," she says with a smile, "But I know, if I want, I can get bloody sexy." Yana has been to almost every corner of the world. The travel bug bit her at sixteen and since then, she hasn't had a permanent domicile. Having spent her childhood in Brno, the second largest city in Czech Republic, Yana always dreamed of touching distant shores and exploring new worlds. She fulfilled her dream, and, in the process, accumulated fame and money, building a reputation as a supermodel in Europe and Japan.

Some cajoling from her best friend, a wannabe model herself, and Yana took off for Milan. During a 2-month stay there, she modelled for some of the big names in haute couture. A restless type who would not stick around in a place for too long, Yana soon found herself modelling in Vienna, Munich, Hamburg and Prague for clients like Calvin Klein and Victoria's Secret. "I drew too much attention in Europe. Actually, all I wanted to do was travel and learn new things," she says in her heavily accented English.

After graduating in park architecture and gardening at the age of 19, Yana packed her bags for Asia, the continent that interested her very much. Japan was her next destination where she spent almost 2 years, modelling for cosmetics (Shuemura, Shisheido, Nivea, Rexona) and for Toyota, Honda and Sony, to name a few.

She says, "I kept going back to Japan as the country offered me a good scope. I really appreciated the way I was treated there." A rather long stint in Japan, she started feeling weary and needed a break. Some of her friends suggested a spiritually rejuvenating trip to India. Soon, Yana found herself in Goa.

It was not long before Yana started getting modelling offers in India. Here, she met her to-be husband, artist Satya Gupta. (Yup, she's married!) Yana reveals, "It was a casual meeting. In fact, I had never thought of marriage at that point. I was in India for a vacation, and I never intended to get into any relationships."

However, after spending sometime with Satya, she knew that he was her knight in shining armour! So, they got married last October and now live happily in Pune. That's how Yana Synkova became Yana Gupta.

She has been doing quite a bit of modelling in Mumbai and appreciates the creativity of the professionals here. She finds Indians really friendly and thinks that the Indian advertising and creative industry holds a lot of promise. She explains to say: "In India, there is no dearth of exciting ideas; there's new stuff happening, with a lot of young talented people around."

Yana loves the spiritual touch to India and thinks there's no need to take a holiday as a life in India itself seems like one! Yana has already appeared in a mermaid video for Biddu, in commercials for Limca and MTV and is soon going to be launched as a Lakme model. Nevertheless, she does complain of the laid-back attitude. She laughs off to say: "It helps me because I feel much less stressed out here."

Yana comes across as a multi-faceted person who terms herself as a jack-of-all-trades. She can speak Japanese, Spanish, English and Hindi in bits and pieces, apart from her native Czech. Her varied interests lie in music (she used to play the flute and the piano), dancing, fitness and health, aerobics and computers.

Yana's idea of a perfect holiday is getting lost anywhere deep in the ocean or in the forests of Czech Republic; through the small towns, backpack in hand. As simple as that. Yana, a vegetarian, digs Indian food, but thinks it's oily and unhealthy. Currently, she is looking for a healthy way to Indian eating.

She sees her future in music and envisions turning a singer someday, but for now it's just modelling all the way.