Paulina Porizkova says it's "really freaking hard to be a woman over 50".
Paulina Porizkova
The 54-year-old model believes she has hit the "dead zone" in her career, which she describes as being in between "J-Lo looking fabulous" and veteran actress Betty White, and recalled how she was turned down for a job because she hasn't gone under the knife.
Appearing on 'CBS Sunday Morning', she said: "I did one of my, 'Look at me. This is my face without make-up' [posts]. And I've never used botox or fillers. And this job that I was up for went, 'Oh, well, we can't use you then.'"
Asked by co-host Anthony Mason: "How do you feel about that?", she replied: "I used to be kind of judgmental about it.
"I used to go, 'Oh, you know, I can't believe that anybody's injecting themselves and changing the way they look.'
"And now I think, 'No, you know what? It's really freaking hard to be a woman. And it's really freaking hard to be a woman over 50. Because we really get dismissed from the table.'
"We have, like, a weird period between, you're J-Lo looking fabulous and then Betty White.
"And there's kind of like a dead zone between the two.
"So, I'm trying to fill that dead zone!"
Paulina was just a teenager when she moved to Paris to embark on a modelling career and made the prestigious Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue at the age of 18 in 1984.
The Czech actress-and-author - who was previously married to the late frontman of The Cars, Ric Ocasek, for 28 years until May 2018 - also admitted that to this day she still feels like an "impostor" and detailed her battle with low self-esteem, which she believes is down to being left behind by her parents when she was young as they escaped the communist regime in her home country.
She shared: "In some ways, I still think I'm waiting to be found an impostor. Even now!"
She continued: "I always like to say about myself I am a woman of very high ego, but zero self-esteem.
"My parents left me when I was little.
"They left because they were escaping the communist regime. "But I think being left, that sort of just stuck with me forever, that I'm really not that great.
"And as soon as you find out how not-great I am, you will also leave me."
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