Paulina Porizkova believes Madonna — with the new look she debuted at Sunday’s Grammy Awards — is forcing the world to discuss aging. Specifically, women and aging. And she respects the singer for it.
“I’ve been receiving tweets that mention my face as an example of aging gracefully, as opposed to Madonna,” the 57-year-old supermodel wrote this week in an Instagram post that highlighted a New York Times guest essay about reactions to the Material Girl’s appearance. “But what Madonna is doing, whether accidentally or deliberately, is flushing out the shaming of older women.”
Madonna “is forcing us to talk about, or at least notice, our cultural and societal biases and judgements,” the Czech-born Porizkova wrote in her Thursday post, which actor Lily Tomlin then shared on her own Instagram account. “She’s putting herself out there once again, seemingly shameless, and drawing ire.”
