The biggest fear of every woman is the fear of aging. The desire to be always young and beautiful encourages the fair sex to go to all kinds of tricks, up to plastic surgery, which does not always bring the desired result.
The dream of eternal youth is still a dream, but they say about this amazing woman that she knows the secret of how to remain beautiful at 84 years old. And every day he surprises the audience with his beautiful figure at the catwalk shows, because she still successfully works as a model.
Work is life
Probably no woman in the world can boast such attractiveness and energy as the charming Carmen Del'Orefays, whose name is inscribed in the Guinness Book of Records.
This catwalk model is famous for the longest career, which does not stop even now. Without exaggeration, we can say that for an age-old fashion model, her beloved work really has become a length in her life.
Poverty and deprivation
The future star was born in New York in 1931. Her parents' marriage fell apart, and the girl often wandered in rented apartments with her mother. When there was no money at all, Carmen lived in a Catholic boarding school. According to her recollections, childhood was completely bleak.
The only thing that pleased the girl was her choreography classes, which she attended for free as a gifted child.
Blows of fate
The boarding school girl too hard took the news that her dream of becoming a ballerina would not come true: the girl was sick with rheumatism and was too weak for strong physical exertion. “My life then lost all meaning, ” Carmen Del'Orefays once said.
Her biography as a model began at age 14. It was then that the sad girl with a bun on her head was met by the wife of a famous photographer of a youth magazine and offered to take test shots when she saw the potential of Carmen in her appearance. After the tests, the young lady expected another blow: with a pack of photos she was sent a polite refusal, indicating complete non-photogenicity.
The beginning of a successful career
However, the godmother had completely different thoughts, and he transferred the pictures to his good friend, who works in the famous Vogue. She also gives photos to the chief editor of the magazine - Diana Vreeland, who certainly wanted to see the beautiful Carmen Del'Orefays with her own eyes. Photos of the lovely girl were printed in the next issue on 17 pages.
After that, the young model, perfectly moving thanks to the ballet skills, was strewed with offers like from a cornucopia. Her pretty face did not leave the covers of the most popular magazines, and her career was simply brilliant.
Hormone injections
When the girl was twenty years old, the agency leading her financial affairs considered that a thin figure, more suitable for a teenager than a young pretty lady, was no longer quoted in the modeling business. So that the Carmen star did not roll ahead of time, a decision was made that could seriously harm the health of the fashion model - to give her hormonal injections in order to provoke an increase in the chest and hips.
A few months later, a girl with uniforms, who signed a contract for the display of underwear, appeared on the podium. It was a crazy success that raised Carmen to the level of a supermodel. But no one knows that the girl jeopardized her future career, because stars of this level never defiled in swimsuits. However, the risk was justified, and the fees of the beauty jumped several times.
From poverty to financial well-being
The model itself has repeatedly admitted that it completely does not understand why it was noticed and offered a job. She saw in herself only an ugly duckling, but such suspiciousness did not interfere with her successful career at all.
Slender graceful beauty was happy that she was able to get out of poverty, but not only that pleased her. Having once considered herself a loser, the girl saw the whole world, she traveled a lot at work, filming with the most famous photographers.
Carmen Del'Orefice, accustomed to living quite ascetic during her time at a Catholic school, never lavished money. She rented rooms cheaper, without telephones and hot water, and rushed to the shooting on roller skates. She sewed all the clothes herself and looked very dignified. “After what you have experienced, you begin to take life very seriously and save, ” Carmen explained.
Model business resignation statement
However, with age, the model begins to understand that it is being pressed by new faces who have come onto the podium with all the charm of youth. And at 32, a woman decides to end her career, telling the agency that she wants to devote herself to a child and a young spouse.
Failed marriages
The personal life of Carmen Del'Orefice, whose photo appeared on the covers of all the fashion magazines in the world, was full. A woman who did not like loneliness wanted to be happy. However, her three marriages were not successful, but Carmen never regretted what happened in her life.
The first romance happened when the girl turned 16. The chosen one, who was 10 years older, loved the other, but still, after several years spent together, he offered his hand and heart to the beginning diva of the catwalk. Carmen gave birth to a daughter, Laura, but three years later the union broke up.
In 1958, she falls in love with a photographer and marries again. This marriage also did not work out, but the former husband R. Hyman always spoke very warmly about his wife, who convinced him to try himself as a film director and even bought him his own studio.
End of relationship and modeling career
After the divorce, Carmen Dell'Orefice (Carmen Dell'Orefice) as a whirlpool rushes into a new relationship with a young architect. Thanks to this marriage, her name is becoming known not only in the fashion industry. All secular chronicles of America wrote about a beautiful union.
But it was a strange marriage: the spouse, who was experiencing a strong age difference, kept a close eye on his aging wife and even pulled out all the gray hairs on her head.
It was he who insisted that his wife leave the modeling business. Journalists found out that the shaky psyche of the man had malfunctioned, and he was addicted to drugs. The couple divorced when Carmen was already over forty. The woman tried to return to business, but she was not accepted anywhere, explaining that the glamorous world belongs to the young.
Fateful meeting
In 1976, a woman periodically shot for advertising meets her friend, a photographer, who was amazed at the excellent appearance of the former model. He invites her to Paris to take pictures for the French Vogue.
The adult and experienced Carmen Del'Orefice did not try to look younger than she is. She began to turn gray at the age of 40, but did not worry at all about this, but, on the contrary, completely lightened her hair, which became her trademark.
A new round of career
The resulting portfolio, on which the model appeared proud, sensual and with silver hair, emphasizing her interesting facial features, the magazine liked, and after that a new round in the career of already elderly Carmen begins.
It is curious that once a young fashion model attacked a well-known Ford agency with a request for joint work, but now it has even opened a unit created specifically for the gray-haired model.
Star with gray hair
Del'Orefays revealed that a new era had come for beautiful and famous women. The world did not want to look only at an attractive appearance, expecting to see personality and individuality in each beauty that took place.
Carmen Dell'Orefiche began to play by the new rules. If earlier she felt like a faceless canvas on which the face necessary for photo shoots was painted, now she felt like a real star, representing a bright diva on each cover. A decisive and independent style icon discarded all complexes regarding age, stating that she was still beautiful, and the years lived only added charm to her face.
Each exit of the model to the podium is an image of a wise woman remembered by a special grace and filled with dignity.
Age extension
The oldest model in the world, Carmen Del'Orefice, gave an interview in which she frankly told how she feels: “Recently, my face appeared on the covers much more often than during my entire career. Being in that category of people who are considered unpromising due to age, I try to show that everything is possible. ”
The gray-haired Carmen remains one of the most sought after models. The shows with her participation are held with great success, and the model actively participates in photo shoots and advertising projects, saying that she will be shot until one hundred years old.
Having survived more than one fashionable era, a woman remains true to her once chosen style - feminine and sophisticated. At 84, she continues to walk in high heels, demonstrating her grace in front of viewers and camera flashes.
Films featuring Carmen Del'Orefice
In 1993, the film debut of the “Veteran of the Catwalk” took place. For a small role in the drama "The Age of Innocence, " she was invited by the famous M. Scorsese. And three years later she appeared in the tape of M. Cimino "The Catcher of the Sun."
She participated in episodes of several series, but never thought about giving up a modeling career for an artistic one.
The secret of youth
Carmen Del'Orefice, whose beauty secrets millions of women dream to learn, never hid the fact that she resorted to the services of medicine to look young.
She replaced the diseased knee joints with artificial ones and underwent a painful dermabrasion procedure - skin resurfacing to remove age spots and wrinkles. And for decades, she has resorted to silicone injections.
Carmen, whom Salvador Dali recognized as his muse, refuses to age, realizing that appearance is her strength.
When a woman is asked about how to be beautiful for such a long time, the model does not hide that she does gymnastics, drinks water with lemon and bio-yogurt. It protects the skin from ultraviolet radiation, which causes wrinkles and provokes age-related changes. The style icon does not part with a moisturizer, as the skin becomes dry with age.
Book of the secrets of beauty
She even released a book in which she spoke without hiding about her tricks that allowed her to be beautiful at 84 years old. She always looked after herself and went in for sports, despite rheumatism.
Carmen loves to swim and believes that this is the best way to keep herself in good shape, and gives advice to sleep a lot. The model does not sit on diets, saying that she has an excellent metabolism.
Problem with daughter
The media person admits that she has lived an amazing life and does not regret a single sacrifice made for the sake of a career. Her only problem is the relationship with her daughter, who has not overcome her resentment against her mother. It was always hard for her to be in the shadow of one of the most beautiful women in the world.
Laura even became interested in the basics of psychology, but, as she herself says, knowledge was of little use to her in relations with her mother.
