Science & Tech Quote by Eva Herzigova

There is a sly defiance in how bluntly Eva Herzigova drops the line: "Yes, I was really good in physics and in math". It reads like a preemptive rebuttal to a question she has heard too many times, the one that assumes a model must be decorative first and dimensional never. The "Yes" does heavy lifting: it implies a challenge was posed, an expectation she’s batting away with a simple fact.

Herzigova’s profession is the point of friction. Modeling has long been treated as an industry that profits off a narrow, highly policed image of femininity, then punishes the people inside it for being perceived as superficial. Claiming STEM competence isn’t a random résumé flex; it’s a way of refusing the bargain that says visibility comes at the cost of credibility. Physics and math are culturally coded as hard, rigorous, masculine-leaning domains - shorthand for seriousness. She chooses the most stereotype-resistant subjects possible.

The subtext is also about agency. "Really good" is casual, almost teenage in tone, as if she’s describing a school strength rather than branding herself an "intellectual". That understatement matters: it avoids begging for validation from a world that typically grants models attention but withholds respect. The sentence is small, but it’s engineered to expose a bigger bias - not just that people underestimate her, but that the culture keeps needing women to prove they are more than the roles they’re cast in.