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The three-month deadline Maria Shriver gave Paulina Porizkova to write her new e-book “Unfiltered: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful,” a collection of private essays to be published next month, has come at its best. time.
Porizkova had just landed in New York from Panama, where she slept on the jungle floor in the rain and faced many physically demanding situations for CBS’s truth demonstration “Beyond the Edge,” which passed a bit by the moment she got home.
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“When I came back from that, I couldn’t walk. He had lost about five pounds. I didn’t want to lose weight. And they said, ‘Okay, we want the book. ‘Can you do that until March 1? I like it, well, I can’t walk and I can’t do anything else, so maybe I just sit down and write the book. Old said on a recent afternoon, sitting in the corner of a giant shopping table in a photo studio in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Shriver, a journalist, manufacturer and with her own label, The Open Field, at the e-book publisher Penguin Life, did not know Porizkova personally. But he reached out to her after following her on Instagram to see if she would be interested in writing a collection. of essays based on his absolutely honest articles on aging, loss management, and identity over the past two years.
PorizkovaArray basically because it is not the typical remembrance speech he had won again and again from those interested in his childhood, modeling career and marriage.
After all, she has been in the public eye since the age of 3 when she, who had fled communist Czechoslovakia to Sweden but left Porizkova with her grandmother, also struggled to get her son out of the country, gaining many media outlets. attention at that time, especially in Sweden.
She began modeling in her teens, first in Paris before moving to the United States, where she landed a canopy for the Sports Illustrated costume factor and a record $6 million contract as the face of Estée Lauder.
“I got about 20 calls from agents saying ‘memory, memory’ and I thought, ‘No, that’s not going to happen,'” he continues. “So when Maria said that, I cheered up because that’s what I write every day anyway on Instagram: my mind and processes and feelings and all that, and then I can write a little deeper. “
It’s easy to see why Shriver and thousands of social media users logged into Porizkova on the app. Dressed in what she describes as a comfortable denim uniform suitable for photo shoots, a white T-shirt with robot designs she picked up in Venice Beach. , California, and pale blue flat sandals, and right after removing her makeup to reveal her good herbal looks and piercing blue eyes, Porizkova is warm and friendly and turns out to have her feet on the ground. Arriving at the studio earlier without the typical celebrity entourage. There are no questions on the table, proving that his Instagram-only open-book mentality.
She herself admitted that she discovered the app late, that she prefers Twitter and Facebook, and did not perceive the concept of posting photos of yourself despite a successful modeling career. But everything replaced in 2020.
“I have enough shots of myself. I don’t want them anymore,” he says.
“But when my husband died and COVID-19 hit, I was so lonely, unhappy and devastated and there was no one there yet. So I literally made it,” he continues, throwing bottles with little ‘help’ messages and how remarkable that there were so many other people suffering at the same time and other people suffering from pain and other people dying for them and then my open pain resonated because so many other people were going through it.
After meeting him at age 19, Porizkova married Ric Ocasek, frontman of the rock band Cars, for nearly three decades, sharing two children. They were separated for two years and were divorcing, but they still lived together in the same place. time of his death at age 75 in 2019 while recovering from surgery. It was Porizkova who discovered it in the Gramercy space they shared. The next day, she discovered that she had been excluded from her will. In 2021, he moved in with his estate for an undisclosed amount.
His articles have covered many topics, including aging, bereavement, anger, taking antidepressants, good looking standards, and non-invasive cosmetic treatments.
“I didn’t know if I was going to succeed with one user or with 3 and what happened absolutely beyond my imagination,” he says of his adventure on the Meta-owned social media app.
“Before my husband’s death, our marriage had disintegrated and we had already been separated for two years and were going through a divorce and invisibility for my husband coincided with my invisibility to the rest of the world,” she continues. All of a sudden, a divorced woman who had no career, had no way to make money and was absolutely ignored by the general population and I think it wasn’t great because I’m so much cooler now than I was 20 years ago. I’m smarter. I have more patience. I’m more intellectually curious. I am more generous. Everything about me is better. But I have wrinkles and that doesn’t make me ugly. I just think it was unfair.
After talking to friends of the same age, she began to realize that she wasn’t the only one who felt invisible. “I don’t have to make an effort. Damn. I’m done with it. Luckily, they also married other people with careers,” she says. “I think it’s a little less difficult to say, you know, but for the rest of us, for women who went through a gray divorce, which is becoming more common, and then they’re in the world, maybe you’ve done it, spend your time taking care of your children and your circle of relatives and now. You are recovering yourself and no one needs you. It’s not fair or great.
Her posts helped her bond only with her friends but also strangers, amassing a follower on Instagram that temporarily reaches one million, and some are now beginning to approach her on the street to thank her for her outspokenness.
But along with those she encouraged through her, there were also enemies online, who criticized her for sharing bikini and lingerie photos, as well as artfully taken nude photos.
“Most other people I know in the public eye will just forget about it. They will simply block it. They will have someone else to block their flows through them. It actually stimulates my brain,” Porizkova says of how she treats trolls, opting not to block them, for one, who kept “messing up” her transmission from paragraph to paragraph.
“If you were sitting with this user in a room and he told me this, how would I respond?That is, he would not just walk through the door. It’s not even an explanation for them, but I would check to find out where it comes from,” he says. “Why do you say that?What allows you to say that?What makes you think it’s okay?And why do you think that? This pushes me to write articles about other things.
As part of being quite open about her life on the internet, she stores some of the remedies she tries. While staying away from injectables, she joked that she invests her money in any non-invasive remedies she can find, from oxygen facials to lasers. Facials to facial yoga and everything in between.
“I just need a little sophisticated help. I don’t need drastic things. I don’t need my age. I just need to look as smart as possible contemplating the limitations. “
She thinks injectables are a private preference and while other people look “wonderful” with them, she finds that it also reduces their ability to express themselves physically.
“I actually like the fact that I can have a verbal exchange with you and I can react to what you say and know exactly what I’m thinking,” she explains. “I don’t want to use a whole paragraph of words because you can say, ‘Oh, you didn’t like that. ‘It’s obviously visual on my face and I feel like why aren’t faces for?Communicate? Communication for me is more vital than being charming at this point, so I do. I don’t want to take that away.
As for whether celebrities perpetuate unfair good-looking criteria by admitting when cosmetic work is done, that partly annoys Porizkova because she believes it sets unrealistic criteria for the rest of us. But the other part of her understands it “absolutely. “
“If you say you did something, guess what your business card is?It’s as if Jane Fonda has notoriously admitted her cosmetic surgery and is being interviewed for a movie and the first thing she is asked is about her cosmetic surgery. of that. . . I perceive both meanings and can do what suits me.
Porizkova is rarely the only celebrity looking to replace verbal replacement about aging. Model and actress Brooke Shields presented the wellness platform Beginning Is Now as an ode to aging out loud, selling the concept of opportunity and positivity among women over 40, who receive very opposite messages. Then there’s actress Naomi Watts, who recently unveiled her good-looking menopausal Stripes logo in partnership with biotech company Amyris, hoping to end the misfortune and secrecy surrounding menopause and instead mark “the beginning of something new and glorious for women. “
It is unlikely that there will be a logo in Porizkova’s future. “The thing is, those women were smarter than me. They jumped on him while the iron was hot, and honestly, I’m a writer. I’m not a business woman. What? I love writing and connecting and communicating and I don’t know how to monetize that. ” I think if I had to write a revealing memoir, I’d make money, but since I don’t do that, no.
As for the younger generation of models, Porizkova says she shouldn’t give any recommendations because it’s a very different business. But after a brief pause, he says that “if you make money, make sure you save it, make sure it’s in your own bank account, and don’t give it to anyone else. “
Launch Gallery: Conversation about reshaping aging with Paulina Porizkova
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