The supermodel Paulina Porizkova gave a buzzy interview for The Times of London last year. I confess, as a young millennial, I had to google who she was. Porizkova is my mother’s age exactly. Her interview is powerful—she describes the stark divide between age and beauty. Throughout the interview, she describes how being an object of desire is reserved for young women. Physical beauty, it turns out, is something you age out of.
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Rachel Roth Aldhizer
Rachel Roth Aldhizer writes from North Carolina. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a 2024-2025 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her reporting and opinion has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things, and others.
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