About Face: Supermodels Then and Now

Just watched this HBO documentary called "About Face" which is a collection of clips and interviews that features many well known and top notch famous supermodels. It showcases and displays how each started their work young and gradually the beauty developed and for sure the age and becoming old started to happen. Yet as most tell the life of a model comes as a price from a lot of sex to drugs binges, it's a heck of a lot of fun early on, but when the age hits the beauty is reworked and retooled with plastic surgery and Botox procedures. Still mostly it's just a beauty face of retooling and reworking and the love and fresh attitudes of the ladies still remain the same as they all live and love longer and enjoy much of the stuff from their early years as Jerry Hall stated even though older she still likes to wear sexy silk lingerie! Overall good doc that shows the life and ups and downs of supermodels as it gives a good history of how beauty does age and grow old only to be reworked and retooled. And the clips and interviews with Jerry Hall, Beverly Johnson, Christy Turlington, and Paulina Porizkova are good and memorable.

The women featured in this documentary are beautiful inside and out, and, thus, represent truly timeless beauty. My mother always said, "pretty is as pretty does." My mother sold Estee Lauder cosmetics in Department Stores back in the day. Isabella Rossellini and Paulina Porizkova were the faces of Estee Lauder. Their photos looked absolutely perfect...always. To see them talk about how they were called "ugly" as well as "beautiful" was surprising, heartwarming, and reassuring. The historical and cultural perspectives presented in this documentary are priceless as are the women behind them. I highly recommend it!