Paulina Porizkova Shatters the ‘Aging Is Easy’ Myth With Raw Honesty

Is there anything worse than when your phone’s camera opens up in selfie mode, revealing that under-the-chin view? Well, Paulina Porizkova is telling the truth.

She shared a very quick clip on her Instagram feed on Aug. 5, showing that “unflattering angle” while trying to take a scenic photo with her fiancé Jeff Greenstein. She wrote, “Oh… Oops!” on the video, and of course, offered all of her followers some wisdom about the moment.

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“You know, that spectacularly unflattering angle when you’re looking down at your phone, and accidentally film yourself,” she said in the caption. “So much for ‘Oh, aging is easy for you, Miss Supermodel.’ 😉”

She “bows” down to “those who have never cared what they look like, spent a lifetime pursuing noble goals, and are in perfect health” because they are “karmically waaaay ahead of” her. Even though she’s at the “happiest” time of her life, she has to reconcile with the fact that she looks different than the height of her supermodel career.

Yes, aging is a “privilege,” but she also struggles with her physical looks from time to time.

“For the rest of us: I love my age. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. I wouldn’t trade it for any other age,” she added. “BUT – having relied on my looks for most of my life as a part of my personality, this physically aging stuff demands an inner courage I’m still working on. It’s work. But… It is also a privilege of which I am absolutely conscious and grateful.”

Porizkova recently got engaged to Greenstein in Nice, France, in July, and she’s still gushing about their love for each other. “Two and a half years on, we still crack each other up,” she remarked in a July 25 social media post. “All the time. He has an Emmy for being funny. We all know I do not. But he believes I’m funny. He laughs at my jokes. He tells me I’m funny. He makes me feel an equal partner at all times.”

Porizkova was married to Cars lead singer, Ric Ocasek, from 1989 to 2017, and they shared two sons: Jonathan Raven Ocasek, 31, and Oliver Ocasek, 27. He died in 2019 before they ever filed for divorce, but it was a difficult relationship for her.

“He didn’t want me to do anything,” Porizkova said on The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet podcast in November 2021. “He didn’t want me to go anywhere. He wanted me to be within his circle at all times. I was his sole emotional provider for everything, and I confused that with love. It was a collective thing that just stuck with me forever, and I still feel that way, which, of course, is remarkable that me, a self-proclaimed feminist, goes and marries a guy who tells her how to dress.”

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