![]() ![]() ![]() But I think it's important to remember that imperfect is sometimes the most perfect. Our world thrives on perfection, and every celebrity has a collection of airbrushed photographs to prove it. And I simply want to share my good luck and everything I've learned with all of you. During that time, I have had the great privilege of working with the best of the best in the worlds of beauty and style. But I say proclaim it and help redefine the way we think about the numbers! Now, having been part of the modeling industry for over forty years, I find myself in a unique position. Thanks to healthy diets, exercise, and youth-enhancing beauty tricks, they can get away with lying about their age. I know that I am not unique just because I look "good for my age." Women of all ages are looking and feeling better than the number that's supposed to define them (which many don't reveal so we don't know they look great for sixty and actually believe them when they say they're fifty-five, fifty-two, or forty-nine!). This double whammy of exposure garnered quite a lot of attention! "I'll have what she's having," article after article exclaimed, while proclaiming "60's the New 30!" And those articles got me thinking: What am I doing right that I could share with other people? And if I keep it up, who knows? I could be writing my third beauty book in another thirty years. The idea to write this book was prompted by the fact that People magazine celebrated my Big Six-O by placing me on their cover in a bathing suit.Īt the same time, Sports Illustrated (who made me the first model to be on the cover of their legendary swimsuit edition three times in a row) was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their bestselling franchise, and they coaxed me into a bikini for a TV commercial. I NEVER imagined that I would be writing another beauty book thirty years later, or that I would STILL be modeling! But here I am today, doing BOTH! I wanted to share what I had learned growing up on the beach in Malibu and what I'd picked up from a fascinating industry that had taken me from California surfer girl to cover girl. Well, ten years later, at twenty-nine years of age and miraculously still in possession of a bustling modeling career, I wrote my first beauty book. The rule of thumb was "This business will chew you up and spit you out long before you turn thirty!" OO LA LA! I was asked to become a model while living in Paris, working as an "artiste." This was way back in the day, when the thinking was that at my ripe old age of nineteen, I might already be too old for the business. ![]()
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