Paulina Porizkova is always one to be open and honest with how she’s feeling and what she’s going through on social media. She often shares makeup-free selfies, photos of her favorite outfits and swimsuits, and keeps it real about aging through it all. To celebrate the New Year, the supermodel bared it all for the camera.
On Wednesday, Porizkova, 57, shared a photo of herself covering her bare chest, wearing nothing but black briefs. “The New Year is yawning wide open,” she wrote in the caption. “I’m greeting it bare. Because I have nothing to hide.”
She continued, “I’m finally comfortable in my own skin. I don’t need armor when I’m already armed with my experiences and the wisdom they’ve brought. All the really good stuff is crammed into this body and invisible on the outside. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It’s what keeps me standing tall and proud – even when undressed.”
She signed off with her signature hashtag, #betweenjloandbettywhite, along with #greypride #betterontheinside.
In 2022, she wrote the book on going filter-free (literally) with her No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, filled with essays about the complexity of womanhood and regularly shares both the highs and lows of life on Instagram.
On New Year’s Day, she posted an “unretouched, unfiltered” selfie (while experiencing a “slight hangover,” we might add) from the night before. “2022 began with me being immersed in writing my book and in my past. It ended with the gratification of my book reaching you all, and your reactions to it,” she began. “Sandwiched in between, there was a new life: travel, modeling work as an older woman, and making new friends wherever I went. A beautiful and perfect blend of the new and the old.”
For the new year, she expressed that she wants to let go of the past. “To quit trying to live in it for comfort – even though it hurts and will keep hurting as long as I sit there. The unknown ahead is scary. So scary, that the pain of the past is preferable. This is what I want to conquer next. My fear of the unknown. To boldly go where I have never been before.”
Porizkova wished her followers a Happy New Year writing, “Here is to a new year and the unknown. Here’s to embracing change. Getting wiser, getting older, getting bolder.”
Just the kind of messages we want to hear heading into a new year.
