Maggie Tabberer has graced the cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly many times but confesses she never thought she’d still be a cover girl at 84. “Darling, I’m thrilled,” she tells me settling into the make-up chair at our photographic studio.
It took some coaxing to persuade the former model and Aussie icon out of retirement to step in front of the photographer’s lens once more for a full-blown photoshoot, but she is clearly having a ball. No sooner has she arrived than she’s talking through clothes, fabrics, hats, wraps and jewellery with The Weekly’s Style Director Mattie Cronan and sharing reminiscences from her days back in the 1960s as famous photographer Helmut Newton’s muse.
And when she’s ready for her close-up Maggie doesn’t flinch and picks up right where she left off, albeit decades before, inspiring gasps from our photographer Peter Brew-Bevan, who whispers incredulously “every frame is pure magic”.
While she may be “pretty old now” – her words not mine – Maggie’s approach to life hasn’t changed, which I suspect is her secret. She’s fun and innately laid-back, enjoying every moment while trying not to stress over the detail, which is not to say she hasn’t endured times of darkness along the way.
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