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Paulina Porizkova isn’t having any negativity on her social media account. In a daring transfer, the beautiful 57-year-old mannequin posted a screenshot of a nasty remark and responded with measured grace. “Right here’s follower comment- echoing just a few others,” she wrote in a caption on April 29. “A girl of 57 is ‘too previous’ to pose in a bikini – it doesn’t matter what she seems like. As a result of ‘Outdated’ is ‘Ugly’. I get feedback like these each time I put up a photograph of my physique. That is the ageist shaming that units my tooth on edge. Older males are distinguished, older girls are ugly.”
Paulina posted her ideas alongside photographs of each the feedback, and a jaw-dropping picture in a white bikini that confirmed off her flawless physique. The troll’s feedback accused the world-famous print and runway mannequin of “falling from grace.” “You should be in a lot ache to maintain posting bikini footage at your age,” they wrote. “I’ve all the time thought that getting previous and ugly is hardest on the gorgeous folks. The autumn from grace is a lot farther whenever you had been lovely.”
The duvet woman‘s good response continued, saying that the critics in her feedback part “don’t perceive magnificence.” “Individuals who consider prettiness equals magnificence don’t perceive magnificence,” she added. “Fairly is straightforward on the eyes, partly as a result of it’s somewhat bland, inoffensive. It’s straightforward to soak up and straightforward to overlook. Not so magnificence. Magnificence may be sharp. It may possibly wound you and depart a scar. To understand magnificence you could have to have the ability to SEE.”
Paulina’s epistle on magnificence underscores her unbelievable achievements in modeling, in addition to her personal intelligence, in responding to negativity. “For this reason I consider we get extra lovely with age. We have now earned our magnificence, we perceive what it’s, and we are able to see it so significantly better. There isn’t a such factor as ugly and previous. Solely shortsighted and ignorant.”
She concluded the put up with the hashtags #bewtweenjloandbettywhite #seasonedistasty and #matureisbeautiful, together with a ultimate although. “PS. I’m not posting this as a result of I really feel dangerous and wish sympathy- fairly quite the opposite! I’m posting this as a result of this can be a pervasive sentiment that must be accomplished away with. So we may be happy with growing old, as we need to be!”
Paulina lives by her phrases — on April 2, she posted a good-natured selfie with a filter that made her seem to have cosmetic surgery. “Alright- screw this pure growing old biz,” she jokingly captioned the pic alongside a row of laughing emojis and the hashtag #happyfoolsdayyesterday. “It’s getting me nowhere.”
