A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, aging, loss, and joy.
After a lifetime of being looked at, she is ready to be heard..
In these essays, Porizkova bares her soul and shares the lessons she\'s learned--often the hard way.
This is a wise and compelling exploration of heartbreak, grief, beauty, aging, relationships, re-invention and finding your purpose.
Following her ex-husband\'s death--and the revelation of a deep betrayal--Porizkova stunned fans with her fierce vulnerability and disarming honesty as she let the whole world share in her experience of being a woman who must start over.
The decades to come would bring marriage, motherhood, a budding writing career; and later sadness, loneliness, isolation, and eventually divorce.
He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen.
When she was cast in the music video for the song Drive by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek.
As the face of Estée Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world.
Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984. --Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of These Precious Days Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart.
It is nuanced, complex, insightful, helpful, and constantly surprising.
A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, aging, loss, and joy
