Why This 50-Year-Old Supermodel Loves Being Called “Handsome”

Being an ex-model, you know,

age plays a lot of importance in that business.

Once I got to be 26, 27,

that's when they started telling me to maybe,

you know, always say I was 25.

I never felt my age, I still don't feel my age.

I can't explain why I've always felt that way,

but it seems like experience and growth

are more of the ways that I count my age.

A lotion for men is like, a handsome, brave, strong lotion!

But for women everything is to promote youth,

to promote anti-aging, to promote, you know,

to make you skinnier.

I fall for it and many people fall for it

without even thinking, wait a minute,

you know, nothing is going to stop you from growing.

There's a whole kind of unwritten

age structure that we live in.

At 14 I have to be this,

at, you know, 18 I need to be this,

and by 35 I definitely need to have two kids and a husband.

I just thought, like, well yeah,

I'm gonna be, you know, a cowboy

and then I'm gonna be a gas station attendant.

What guided me was really a self-will.

I would try things, I would be very,

I was very interested in people.

My parents made me experience such a different life

and so I was free to be what I wanted to be

or how I felt I wanted to be.

You know, I wanted to cut all my hair off,

they let me cut my hair off, my mom did it for me,

you know, things, when I was very young.

And so I think there was a certain sense of freedom

that led me to be able to live my life

in a much more interesting way

and being able to follow that instinct.

Without the word gay being around, or lesbian,

I was far too young,

I just had this instinctual crush on women around me.

I think the difficulty for me was that

it wasn't about being a woman,

it was about liking women.

I'm so comfortable in my own skin finally,

places and things, it's like,

it becomes so much deeper, at least for me

and actually have some empathy for people

and for that person

or for everybody around me

and having some direct relatability now.

Because now that I'm older I can relate to,

I understand more.

I always think handsome is such a beautiful term for women.

Every lady in the House and Senate,

I think is incredibly handsome

and I think it's because of

the physical acts that they're doing

and that they have no fear because they've been women

and so they've already been picked on.

Elizabeth Warren, Ruth Ginsberg, so beautifully handsome

because there's a certain wisdom and intelligence

that they all kind of have

and it's based on nothing but what they do.

Yeah, I'm a Gemini, I'm a left-handed Gemini.

That's all.

[Director] (laughing) That's good.