Carmen Dell'Orefice, the world's oldest model: biography, personal life

The greatest fear of every woman is the fear of aging. The desire to be always young and beautiful urges the fair sex to go to all sorts of tricks, up to plastic surgery, which does not always bring the desired result.

The dream of eternal youth is still a dream, but this amazing woman is told that she knows the secret of how to remain beautiful in her 84 years. And every day surprises spectators with his beautiful figure on podium shows, because she is still successfully working as a model.

Work is life

Probably, no woman in the world can boast of such attractiveness and vigor as the charming Carmen Del'Orefais, whose name is inscribed in the Guinness Book of Records.

This podium model is famous for its longest career, which does not stop even now. Without exaggeration, we can say that for the age model model, the beloved work really has become a length in her life.

Poverty and deprivation

The future star was born in New York in 1931. The marriage of her parents collapsed, and the girl often wandered through rented apartments with her mother. When there was no money at all, Carmen lived in a Catholic boarding school. According to her memoirs, the childhood was completely bleak.

The only thing that pleased the girl - choreography, which she attended for free as a gifted child.

Impacts of fate

The pupil of the orphanage was too embarrassed to hear 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'Orefais once said.

Her biography as a model began at the age of 14. It was then that the sad girl with a bundle on her head was met by the wife of a well-known photographer of the youth magazine and offered to take test shots when she saw the potential in Carmen's appearance. After the trial, the young lady expected another blow: with a bundle of photos, she was sent a polite refusal, pointing to complete nefotogenichnost.

The beginning of a successful career

However, the godmother had very different thoughts, and he gave the pictures to his good friend, who works in the famous Vogue. She also gives photos to the editor-in-chief of the magazine - Diana Vriland, who certainly wanted to see with her own eyes the beautiful Carmen Del'Orefais. Photos of the adorable girl were printed in the next issue on 17 pages.

After that, the young model, which was moving well thanks to the ballet skills, was showered with proposals from the cornucopia. Her pretty face did not come off the covers of the most popular magazines, and her career was just brilliant.

Hormonal injections

When the girl was twenty years old, leading her financial affairs, the agency considered that a thin figure, more suitable for a teenager than for a young girl, is no longer quoted in the modeling business. To the star Carmen did not roll out ahead of time, a decision was made that could seriously harm the health of the mannequins - to make her hormonal injections in order to provoke an increase in the breast and thighs.

A few months later, a girl with uniforms, signed a contract for showing underwear, appears 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 the stars of this level never defile in swimsuits. However, the risk was justified, and the beauties' fees jumped several times.

From poverty to financial well-being

The model itself has repeatedly admitted that it absolutely does not understand why it was noticed and offered work. She saw only an ugly duckling, but this suspicion did not interfere with her successful career.

Slender graceful beauty was happy that she could get out of poverty, but not only that she was happy. She once considered herself a loser girl saw the whole world, she traveled a lot of work, filming with the most illustrious photographers.

Carmen Del'Orefice, accustomed to living quite ascetic during her time in the Catholic school, never littered with money. She rented rooms less expensive, without telephones and hot water, and on shooting skated on roller skates. All the outfits she sewed herself and looked very dignified. "After the experience you begin to take life very seriously and save," Carmen explained.

Statement of leaving the model business

However, with age, the model begins to understand that it is crowded with new faces that have come to the podium with all the charm of youth. And at 32, the woman decides to end her career by telling the agency that she dreams of devoting herself to a child and a young wife.

Unhappy Marriages

The personal life of Carmen Del'Orefais, whose photo appeared on the covers of all the fashion magazines of the world, was saturated. 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 after all, after several years spent together, he offered his hand and heart to the beginning diva of the podium. Carmen gave birth to her daughter Laura, but three years later the union broke up.

In 1958, she falls in love with a photographer and remarries. This marriage also did not work out, but the former spouse R. Hyman always spoke very warmly of his wife, who convinced him to try himself as a filmmaker and even bought his own studio.

End of relationships 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 becomes known not only in the fashion industry. All the secular chronicles of America wrote about the beautiful union.

But it was a strange marriage: surviving because of a strong age difference, the husband watched intently 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. The journalists found out that the man's shaken psyche had failed, and he was hooked on 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 who periodically withdrew for advertising meets her friend-photographer, who was amazed by the superb appearance of the former model. He invites her to Paris to take photos for the French Vogue.

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 about it at all, but, on the contrary, completely brightened her hair, which became her trademark.

A new round of career

The resulting portfolio, on which the model appeared proud, sensual and with silvery hair, emphasizing its interesting facial features, the magazine liked, and after this a new round in the career of the elderly Carmen begins.

It is curious that once the young fashion model attacked a well-known Ford agency with a request for joint work, and now it has even opened a unit created specifically for the gray-haired model.

Star with gray hair

Del'Orefais was frank, 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 in every beautiful woman a person and individuality.

Carmen Dell'Orefiche began to play by the new rules. If before she felt herself as a faceless canvas, on which she painted the face needed for the photo session, now she felt like a real star, a bright diva on every cover. A resolute and independent icon of style threw away all the complexes about the age, stating that it was still beautiful, and the years lived only added charm to her face.

Each exit of the model on the podium - it is remembered by a special grace and dignified image of a wise woman.

Expand the age range

The oldest model in the world, Carmen Del'Orefais, gave an interview in which she frankly told what she felt: "Lately my face has appeared on the covers more often than in my career. Being in that category of people who are considered to be unpromising due to age, I try to show that everything is possible. "

Sedovlasaya Carmen remains one of the most popular models. The shows with her participation are held with great success, and the fashion model actively participates in photo sessions and advertising projects, saying that she will be shot until a hundred years.

Experienced not just a fashionable era, the woman remains true to the once-chosen style - feminine and refined. At 84, she continues to walk on her heels, demonstrating her grace to the audience and flashes of cameras.

Films featuring Carmen Del'Orefice

In 1993 the film debut of the "veteran of the podium" 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 M. Cimino's tape "The Sun-Catcher."

She participated in episodes of several serials, but never thought about quitting a model career for the sake of artistic.

The Secret of Youth

Carmen Del'Orefice, whose secrets of beauty dream of finding out millions of women, never concealed that she resorted to the services of medicine to look young.

She replaced the diseased knee joints on artificial joints and underwent a painful procedure of dermabrasion - skin resurfacing to remove age-related pigment spots and wrinkles. And for decades, she resorted to silicone injections.

Carmen, whom Salvador Dali recognized as his muse, refuses to grow old, realizing that appearance is her power.

When a woman is asked how to be beautiful for such a long time, the model does not hide what makes gymnastics, drinks water with lemon and bio-yogurt. It protects the skin from ultraviolet light, which causes wrinkles and provokes age-related changes. The style icon does not part with the moisturizing cream, since with age the skin becomes dry.

A book about the mysteries of beauty

She even published a book in which she told without reserve about her tricks, allowing her to be beautiful at 84 years old. She always took care of herself and went in for sports, despite rheumatism.

Carmen loves to swim and believes that this is the best way to keep herself toned, and gives advice to sleep a lot. The model does not sit on diets, saying that it has an excellent metabolism.

Problem with daughter

The media person admits that she has lived an amazing life and does not regret any sacrifice made for her career. Her only problem is her relationship with her daughter, who did not overcome her grudge 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 says, knowledge was not very useful to her in her relationship with her mother.

Old age and beauty

To all the questions of annoying journalists about when the star will retire, she answers that she does it every time she goes to bed. And in the morning she goes to work, remaining a fine example of beautiful old age.