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Time & Perspective Quote by Eva Herzigova

"Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey"

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A supermodel name-dropping rural New Jersey is a quiet flex in reverse: it’s glamour performing normalcy. Eva Herzigova’s line reads like an offhand itinerary update, but the intent is reputational. Models are routinely flattened into symbols of airbrushed excess; anchoring herself at “my boyfriend’s home in the country” swaps runway mythology for domestic geography. The phrase “spend a lot of time” does double duty: it suggests stability and routine, a life structured around relationships rather than bookings. It’s intimacy without oversharing, a carefully sized window into private life.

The specific choice of “the country” matters. It’s not “a farm” or “a cabin,” which would feel like cosplay; it’s the blandly aspirational countryside, a space coded as restorative, safer, and more authentic than the city’s churn. Then comes the twist: “in New Jersey.” For an international fashion figure, New Jersey isn’t a postcard; it’s a deliberately unromantic detail that signals she’s not curating a fantasy so much as offering a plausible one. It also nods to the reality of where celebrity actually lives: adjacent to the capital of fashion media, not floating above it.

Contextually, this kind of quote sits in the era of profile journalism where female celebrities are expected to humanize themselves on demand. Herzigova meets that expectation with minimal drama: the subtext isn’t “I’m extraordinary,” but “I have a boyfriend, a commute, a place to be.” The line works because it’s mundane with a designer label hidden in the stitching.

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Herzigova, Eva. (2026, January 16). Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/otherwise-i-spend-a-lot-of-time-at-my-boyfriends-100993/

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Herzigova, Eva. "Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/otherwise-i-spend-a-lot-of-time-at-my-boyfriends-100993/.

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"Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/otherwise-i-spend-a-lot-of-time-at-my-boyfriends-100993/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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Eva Herzigova (born March 10, 1973) is a Model from Czech Republic.

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