She is German, she learned how to speak english watching Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries because Germans are very pragmatic, but I guess most people are when they realize that they have all it takes to make it in America just by EXISTING. That’s the great thing about models, they don’t need anything but the right look and they are born with that, so talent, or skills, or even work ethic doesn’t always matter. When you’re hot enough, opportunity knocks!