Paulina Porizkova is acknowledging turning 60 with some candid ideas on the realities of getting older.
The Czech supermodel and creator, who celebrated her birthday April 9, shared a pair of makeup- and filter-free photographs on Instagram Monday.
Within the first picture, she gave the impression to be absorbing the solar in a bikini, posing playfully in a seaside cabana. The second, nevertheless, confirmed her standing in entrance a WC mirror in her underwear beneath harsh overhead gentle.
“This is me. Vacation, pretty light, posing for a shot,” Porizkova wrote within the accompanying caption. “This is also me. Home, not great light, not posing.”
Her physique, she stated, was a mirrored image of “60 years of doing the right things followed by doing the wrong things and over again and again,” including, “It’s 60 years of learning of what works and what doesn’t. And just as I think I’ve figured it out, everything changes and I have to start again.”
She concluded, “The beauty of 60 is that now I understand the importance is IN the lesson, not passing the exam.”
By Tuesday afternoon, Porizkova’s publish had drawn an assortment of gushing feedback from followers, who referred to as her remarks “honest” and “inspiring.”
“Words can’t express how thankful I am for women like you, Paulina. Keeping it real,” one particular person wrote. “You are beautiful inside and out. Age is just a number. I wish more women felt beautiful in their own skin.”
Added one other: “I wish our culture appreciated aging beauty. The wisdom under our aging bodies is more valuable than youth could ever be.”
Porizkova rose to prominence within the Eighties, gracing the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and different retailers whereas modeling for the likes of Christian Dior, Versace and Calvin Klein. She and musician Ric Ocasek, frontman of the legendary ’80s rock group The Automobiles, had been married from 1989 till his loss of life in 2019.
Earlier this month, Porizkova and author Jeff Greenstein introduced their engagement after about two years of relationship. Showing on NBC’s “Today” in January, she stated she hoped to make use of her platform to vary the dialog round getting older and wonder.
“We’re so scared of wrinkles, have you noticed that?” she defined. “We are so terrified of wrinkles because I suppose wrinkles make us no longer relevant, no longer sexy, no longer desirable, and as women, that has been sort of our calling card … And I keep looking at wrinkles, mine, yours, any woman that I see, and I think, ‘It’s your map of life. I see how you are as a person.’”
Watch Paulina Porizkova’s “Today” interview beneath.
