A model-turned-veterinarian from Poland has gained a huge Instagram following by saving cute animals and looking good.

Natalia Strokowska is a former model and veterinarian Ph.D. candidate who posts photos of herself with creatures great and small alongside glamour shots clad in lingerie.

Among the animals the leggy 27-year-old works with are the smallest kittens and pink piglets and her more exotic patients, such as giraffes and baby elephants.

Strokowska has amassed nearly 15,000 Instagram followers. And she’s open about her former career — which she says helped her pay her way through school — because it’s a way of denying stereotypes that hot models can’t also be sharp students.

“Sadly, models are often stereotyped, and I had to prove that I could combine modeling with my studies, research and being a vet,” she told the Daily Mail. “I am proud of what I have achieved and I want to show that in the era of plastic beauties and Photoshopped photos, you can be yourself.”

Strokowska, who is about to wrap up her Ph.D. in veterinary medicine in Germany, also leads an English course for medical students and dabbles in trendy fitness classes such as CrossFit and pole dancing.