“Thanks To Photoshop, My Grandmother Could Be a Model”

Earlier this year, a Victoria’s Secret model made headlines when she attributed her success to winning “a genetic lottery,” rather than hard work. “I'm not saying I'm lazy. But the most important part of my job is to show up with a 23-inch waist, looking young, feminine and white,” said Cameron Russell, who has appeared in Chanel campaigns and Vogue magazine. She added that models “are some of the most physically insecure women on the planet.”

It was an interesting revelation about a profession that seems like it would be full of confident women. So Ali invited her friend Paulina Porizkova, who rose to fame as an international supermodel in the eighties, to give an insider’s perspective on the modeling industry today.

Paulina, who is just as gorgeous as ever, told Ali that the times she felt the ugliest was when she was modeling. “You don’t hear, oh you’re so beautiful, your hair is so splendid, your eyes are so pretty,” she says. “It’s ‘oh, well your nose is a millimeter too wide or too long or too short and your knees are a little flabby.”

That still happens now, she says, but one of the biggest changes is airbrushing. “Thanks to Adobe photoshop….my grandmother could model. Now, she could look 25. And I think models have sort of taken a backseat, too. They’re reverting back to being clothes hangers more than stars or personalities. “

For more of the interview, and the one thing Paulina says every single woman can do to feel more beautiful, check out the video!