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83-year-old model Daphne Selfe is making headlines this week
for her age-defying beauty. Daphne is a supermodel who
has been around for a long time and she is still in demand as a model and shows
how older women can still be sexy and powerful
But unlike so many of her younger contemporaries, Selfe says
she has never taken part in any cosmetic surgery.
As part  of a
marketing campaign, Selfe recently agreed to pose in a bra and corset ensemble
first made famous by Madonna during her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour.
Selfe took the photo for  Oxfam’s Big Bra Hunt, which is gathering bra
donations to send to woman in developing countries who might not otherwise be
able to afford or access them. The first shipment of donated bras will be sent
to Senegal, West
Africa. The group hopes to collect more than 1 million bras.
And despite all of the positive attention her new photograph
has received, Selfe says she wouldn’t want to be a full-time model today,
though she jokingly recalls some of her own past experiences in the industry,
when her modeling career first began in the 1950s.
“I started off modeling fur, which in those days wasn’t
controversial. I did mainly work as a house model, and a few
advertisements,” she said. “We were often photographed holding a
cigarette, and I didn’t even smoke!”
She partly credits “good
genes” for her longevity but says she also avoided drugs and alcohol while
working in the industry. And how has she handled the aging process?
“It’s going to happen, so why worry? My generation got
on with it,” she told the paper. “I do find people are always
complaining these days. I try to remain cheerful, not grumpy. I’ve developed
glaucoma, but the drops I have to put in my eyes have made my lashes grow! So
there is always a plus side. “
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