Christy Turlington Speaks Out On Girls Rejecting Augmentation

Christy Turlington is all for getting older naturally.

The enduring supermodel spoke about what magnificence means to her in a candid interview with Marie Claire revealed final week.

“Girls who’ve stayed away from augmentation of themselves — these are the ladies I actually admire,” she mentioned. “I like seeing an actual face. A face of somebody who’s lived life.”

“I might say my magnificence icons are folks like Jane Birkin,” Turlington added of the lately deceased actor.

“They’ve the sort of faces I prefer to see and we don’t get to see as lots of these on this planet anymore. Jane aged in her method,” she mentioned. “She was as lovely on the finish of her life as she was early on. I shall be a type of faces. I’m a type of faces.”

Turlington has spoken about avoiding cosmetic surgery earlier than, telling Vogue earlier this yr that she “won’t ever alter or increase my face.”

“I’ve at all times been constant about my ideas on this, and I believe as a result of I’ve mentioned it so many instances, I nonetheless consider it,” she mentioned. “But in addition these are my values. Perhaps it comes from having a mother that has additionally been very snug in her personal pores and skin her entire life. And it’s simply such an excellent instance.”

“My mother is in her eighties and he or she appears so good and I believe she appears so good as a result of she has allowed herself to seem like she’s in her eighties,” the 54-year-old mentioned. “I hope that my daughter can take that from me, too. I’m not preoccupied with how I look. I’m not useless.”

“I do know that may sound stunning to listen to from somebody who has been within the profession that I used to be in for thus a few years,” she added. “However the reality is, different folks had been at all times anxious about what I appeared like, so I didn’t have to fret about it. I can’t think about altering that, irrespective of how previous I’m.”

Turlington is one in every of a handful of individuals in Hollywood and the style world who’ve vocally rejected cosmetic surgery.

“Household Ties” actor Justine Bateman made headlines earlier this yr for opening up about what it’s prefer to age within the public eye while you shun surgical procedure, fillers and Botox.

“I believe I look rad,” Bateman, 57, mentioned. “I believe my face represents who I’m. I prefer it.”

Different celebrities, like Jane Fonda, have expressed misgivings for going below the knife.

“On one degree, I hate the truth that I’ve had the necessity to alter myself bodily to really feel that I’m OK,” the activist mentioned within the HBO documentary “Jane Fonda in 5 Acts” again in 2018. “I want I wasn’t like that. I like older faces. I like lived-in faces. I cherished Vanessa Redgrave’s face. I want I used to be braver. However I’m what I’m.”