Actress and model Isabella Rossellini talks about being rehired by Lancôme in her sixties, the new rules of ageing – and why she’s saying no to Botox
When I was young, I didn’t want to become an actress because I was afraid of the comparison with my family, but modelling was my own world.
When I started out, “the girls” were anonymous – even in the Lancôme ads, my name wasn’t mentioned. And I was happy about that because it gave me a feeling of greater independence; I wasn’t hired for my family pedigree.
I was very sad when Lancôme let me go.
I was told they needed someone younger and I didn’t understand it. Other people would say how happy they were to see a woman who had aged from the age of 28 and who was still there in her forties. Lancôme weren’t the only ones to let me go though – Vogue let me go, designers let me go. It was a tough time in my life.
Receiving a phone call at the age of 63 saying “We’d like you to come back” was a shock.
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