Paulina Porizkova, time is precious

This entry is posted on number 17 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until April 22, 2025

“If I hate getting old? Absolutely not. Aging is life, also because the alternative is death! I am really happy to be still here ». The enthusiasm of Paulina Porizkova For his age he comes to the point of making them say what many think, but they do not have the courage to affirm. Sixty years of April 9, Porizkova, model, actress and writer of Czech origin, with her beautiful gray hair and wrinkles on the face brought with pride, witnesses of many seasons – as she says, “her road map” -, it is an example for her generation, but also for the youngest who aspire to arrive with the same enthusiasm and the same happiness at the most feared of Boa.

Physical in perfect shape, one meter and eighty in height, and that safety typical of those who feel comfortable in their skin, was the soap and soap girl in the video of Drive Of The Cars of 1984, thanks to whom she met the singer Ric Ocasek, her husband for twenty -seven years, from whom she had two children, until the separation that procured many economic problems for her. From 1988 to 1995, Paulina also lent its face to famous countryside of Estée Lauder, a role that, after more than thirty years, returns to cover, but this time with a new awareness, representing in all respects the image and voice of a generation that deals with the passage of time with Empowerment.

“Now it’s a call. I hear how to return home Lauder was a mutual decision to help yourself in spreading the message of the importance of aging with serenity, acceptance, pride, to make it get to as many people as possible ». The campaign he is the protagonist, #BecauseoFMyage for the line Supreme+ Revitling+will arrive in Italy in September to point a light also on social issues: to return beauty and a role to women in pre and post menopause. Because this is the most critical female age, when you become, or at least you feel invisible and are labeled as “too old for …”, perception that Porizkova wants to change, proposing itself as a positive example, which celebrates and considers its age a privilege as well as a resource.

How do you feel sixty years old?
“Never been better. I am a mature woman and are not in competition with the twenty -year -olds and thirty years old. I don’t need it, we want different things. The achievement of this state is a recovery of my power, indeed it is an opportunity to build a whole new one that is based on my experience and awareness “.

Has the concept of beauty changed compared to when she took her first steps?
“I worked in the 80s, when the modeling career ended up twenty -five years of age and retired. You couldn’t even start twenty -one or twenty -two because you had passed the “expiry date”. But I dreamed of being able to age like the French actresses who remained attractive, safe of themselves, and continued to work and be desirable even as adults. The world, however, did not go in this direction, because aesthetic interventions have become cheaper and more available and the idea that “if you can do something, you have to do it” has taken over. Today in my environment the only women with wrinkles are those who take a conscious position about their appearance. I see twenty -year -olds sleeping with a blindfolded face and do the botox quote every three months and I find it really frightening. Yet youth does not mean beauty. I don’t want to bend to the desire of society that decides how I should appear, indeed I would like it to support me in the role of champion of a beauty that deserves its place ».

What does the word longevity mean for you?
«Being healthy and aware that time is scrolling. This awareness leads me not to want to lose even a minute of this existence of mine and do everything I want, enjoy life as if I drinking it and I was swimming. I don’t like the word antiage: why fight age? We have to embrace it and do everything to be enhanced. Needless to chase eternal youth ».

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