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April 1, 2007 A NIGHT OUT WITH | Paulina Porizkova; Pampering Two Left Feet By WINTER MILLER IT'S not an Achilles' heel, but Paulina Porizkova has duck feet. That is to say, she is a dancing queen without an arch to her name. Otherwise she's every bit as lovely as one might expect of a 41-year-old former supermodel. Don't be fooled by her Audrey Hepburn style -- she brought klutzyback to television's highly rated ''Dancing With the Stars.'' But this night was not about dance moves or first novels (her book, ''A Model Summer,'' is out this month), it was about feet. Specifically, being off them and having strangers touch them. Ms. Porizkova and her friend of a dozen years, Alexandra Wentworth, the on-again-off-again (soon to be on-again) television actress and wife of George Stephanopoulos, were getting pedicures at the Bunya Citi Spa on West Broadway in SoHo. Ms. Porizkova's husband, the rocker and producer Ric Ocasek, had opted out of spa night. Seated in leather thrones with massage features, Ms. Wentworth noticed her friend's flat feet and yellowed toenails. But it was Lily Gu, Ms. Porizkova's pedicurist for the evening, who kept asking her client: blister, injury or scar? Ms. Gu raised her client's right foot in the air and pointed to it, quizzically. ''Scar; I had a mole removed,'' Ms. Porizkova said. Ms. Porizkova and Ms. Wentworth met on a television pilot and have been close ever since, even with Ms. Wentworth now living in Washington. They wasted not a moment catching up. With these two, there was no story too gross, no moment too humiliating to rehash. Most are unprintable here. ….and I could only fit into one dress.'' But could she dance in it? <- Back to Press