Paulina Porizkova speaks on important topics such as age discrimination, ageism, problems of mature women and society getting used to the topic of aging. The fact that he uses his status for a noble cause and publicizes the above-mentioned issues was honored by “USA Today” magazine. Paulina Porizkova was on the list of winners of the Woman of the Year 2024 award. On this occasion, she gave an interview on the “Today Show”.
“I think that older women’s sexuality is still taboo,” she said. – I still encounter the attitude of “Okay, we’ll take you back to work (after all, you’ll be taking a little less money because you haven’t worked for a while), but accept you as a sexy woman? Oh no. Those days are over.” – she said.
After the death of her husband Ric Ocasek in 2019, the star decided to rebuild her love life. She started dating. There she also encountered unpleasant situations. – Many men I have met have said nonsense like, “I thought postmenopausal women were no longer able to have sex because of the dryness of their private parts.”
Paulina Porizkova: “I often hear the words ‘pathetic’, ‘desperate'”
The supermodel said she tried virtually every dating app available over the course of two years.
I was rejected, they ghosted me more than once, it happens to all of us (…)
– recalled Paulina Porizkova.
The 58-year-old is absolutely not ashamed of her age, on the contrary – she emphasizes that she currently feels happy, conscious, fulfilled and loved. To normalize the issue of aging for women, she posts photos without makeup on her Instagram. He also avoids filters and focuses primarily on naturalness. It’s easy to guess that the model looks absolutely phenomenal. Despite this, she sometimes encounters hate, which only confirms how much work society still has to do in this matter.
On the one hand, I receive a lot of support and warm words, on the other hand, I regularly read comments such as: ‘You should be ashamed of yourself. You’re too old to do this (…) I often hear the words ‘pathetic’, ‘desperate’ or ‘trying to stay relevant’
– she said.
Paulina Porizkova: I’m not going to go beyond the margin, go there yourself”
– Yes, I try to stay relevant, precisely because I was told I wasn’t. I’m trying to show that I still matter. That’s why you can do it too (…). We can unite, put our foot down and say: “I’m not going to go beyond the margin, go there yourself,” the modeling icon said firmly.
Let us recall that Paulina Porizkova has collaborated with the largest brands and fashion houses during her long and impressive career. They included: Chanel, Valentino, Versace and Oscar de la Renta. The heyday of her fame was in the 1980s and 1990s, when she rubbed shoulders with other fashion icons such as Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer on the catwalks and in front of the cameras.
She is followed by over a million people from all over the world on Instagram. This is, among others, Using social media, the supermodel tries to convey important values to fans, such as changing canons of beauty that are impossible to keep up with, the sexuality of women over 50, and the positive aspects of aging, which – as a natural process for every human being – are still demonized. .
Source: Gazeta
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