In 1996, she posed for her first photoshoot, and in 1998 tried contacting Penthouse magazine. Her first pictorials for Penthouse were published in May 1998. She was chosen as Penthouse Pet of the Month. Two years later, she won Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2001. "It was a very big surprise for me and I cried like a baby" because "I was the first girl in history from the Czech Republic to win the title as Pet of the Year and the second girl from Europe".