See the 70s model Marie Helvin now at 69 years old
The fashion icon is a writer, a television personality and always a work model.
Every decade has itsmodel And fashion icons, and the 1970s were all aboutMarie Helvin,,Jerry Hall,,Janice Dickinson, andPat Cleveland, to name just a few. If you are curious to know what it was to be a star in this world at that time, look no further than Helvin. Now 69 years old, the model shared his life story in his autobiography and in many interviews. Of her marriage to her photographer husbandDavid Bailey To his former friendship with Hall to his relations with the main designers, the model was very frank.
And modeling is not only part of his past - Helvin has continued to work in recent years. Read the rest to find out more about his life now.
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It is always a work model.
In a 2019 interview with the Veronica Beard brand, Helvin said that people could be surprised to learn that she is stillactive in modeling. (That said, an interview in 2022 withThe temperature stressed that theThe pandemic meant less work during the last years.)
"Many people assume that I have to enjoy life in Saint-Tropez or something," she told Veronica Beard. “Although I still like modeling, while I still succeed, I will continue. I have a cutting point - I want to be back in Hawaii at that time - but let's see what's going on. It seems crazy to stop, just because of age. ""
However, she retired from a type of modeling.
Helvin made the headlines for one of her jobs in 2015 when she shaped Aliza Reger's lingerie line at 62. She decided to throw in the towel on lingerie modeling after this shoot.
"I doubt a lot that I will accept another lingerie work", "she said theDaily mail at the time. "This one will be my last. In the sixties, it's just too much - I think I prefer to eat pizza!"
She explained the work that goes there: "It's my work. Lingerie modeling is extremely difficult to do and it's stressful at my age. It takes a lot of work to maintain a good figure: I train like an athlete. "
She also took another job.
In addition to modeling, Helvin was also a television writer and personality. She wroteGateway: the art of the model style in 1985 andBochpture: your full health and beauty detox program in 1995. His memories,Marie Helvin: Autobiography, was published in 2007.
As for television, Helvin was a judgeThe next Top Model of Great Britain in 2005. She also organized a special at her place of birth calledTokyo by Marie Helvin.
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She is open to her personal life.
Helvin was married in Bailey from 1975 to 1985, and they were frequent collaborators. He has often photographed her.
"You know, we were both young at the time of our marriage and we both did certain things good and certain things badly," she saidDaily mail In 2015. "It was so long ago and I only feel tenderness and respect for him today."
Now she is happy to be single. ""Of course, I hope love enters my life, "she said. But added,"I love my life as a single. There are times when I need solitude.For me, the perfect relationship is not to live together and not to see yourself all the time! ""
She also talked about being childless by choice.
"When I was with Bailey, I thought he was cool with that. But I think now he was in denial,"she said theDaily mail In 2008. She also said that she "still did not have them" if she knew that Bailey wanted children. "My mom and my father found the things to raise four children a nightmare," she continued. "I don't regret it. I could never be a mother."
She loves travelling.
In her interview with Veronica Beard, Helvin said that despite her work, she prefers to use her money to travel only to spend it in clothes.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I am the kind of person who likes to go out of the beaten track," she said. "You will never find me, never in Saint -Tropez - this is my idea of hell. I am attracted to the most unusual. The last time I was in Greenland, I went to the place where the Glacier who struck the Titanic came from. Silence was so strong, just deafening in a bizarre way. It was extraordinary. People have this idea of me as a glamor-puss, but, no, I prefer to browse the Greenland. "
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