Krupa was born in Warsaw, Poland on 23 April 1979. She was raised Roman Catholic. She has a younger sister, Marta, who is also a model. Krupa moved to Illinois with her family at the age of five. In Chicago, she attended Mary Lyon Public School, followed by Steinmetz High School.
Career
Krupa has appeared on magazine covers including FHM, Inside Sport, Stuff, Steppin' Out, Shape and Maxim, in which she was named the Sexiest Swimsuit Model in the World. Maxim named her #55 in its 2011 Hot 100 ranking of the world's hottest women. She was voted German Maxims Model of the Year 2004–2005. Krupa has also appeared twice on the cover of Playboy and graced the covers of South African GQ and the Polish editions of Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Glamour and Grazia. Having taken ballet lessons as a child, Krupa, along with six-time champion Derek Hough, competed in Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars. Since 2010, Krupa has hosted and served as the head judge on the Polish version of Top Model.
Animal rights activism
On 2 December 2009, animal rights organization PETA released a print ad campaign for dogadoption featuring Krupa as an angel floating in a Catholic church filled with dogs, and holding a cross covering her breasts and genitalia. Krupa had previously appeared in a PETA ad campaign against the use of natural fur. In an April 2009cover story with Aventura Business Monthly, Krupa said she was first motivated to promote PETA when she saw video of animals being skinned alive for their fur in China. She posed covered in body paint for PETA in 2015, this time for their campaign to boycott SeaWorld. She also founded an animal rescue group, Angels For Animal Rescue, with her friend Gabi Gutierrez.
Personal life
After several years of dating, Krupa became engaged to nightclub owner and businessman Romain Zago in 2010. They married on 13 June 2013 in Aviara, Carlsbad, California. On 10 July 2017, she filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized on 17 August 2017. On March 25, 2018, she announced her engagement to Douglas Nunes on Instagram. They married on 4 August 2018 in a private ceremony at the Benedictine Abbey in Kraków, Poland. The couple announced they were expecting their first child together. They welcomed daughter Asha-Leigh Nunes on November 2, 2019.
''Dancing with the Stars'' results
Due to Len Goodman's absence in week 2, the 7 was awarded by stand-in guest judge Baz Luhrmann.
Due to illness Derek Hough was unable to perform; Joanna Krupa performed this dance with Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
