Wit & Attitude Quote by Cheryl Tiegs

There is a whole cultural argument smuggled into Tiegs's casual, slightly breathless defense: the idea that women are still expected to justify their reproductive timelines as if they were public policy. The line begins with social policing - "women are saying... are you crazy?" - and you can hear the chorus of peers acting like a Greek committee on what counts as "normal" motherhood. But Tiegs doesn't argue morality; she argues experience. Her pivot is sharp: they started at 20, I didn't. The comparison reframes "late" pregnancy not as reckless deviation, but as simple arithmetic in a life with different milestones.

The subtext is a model's biography without naming it: a career built on youth, mobility, and visibility, where the "right time" to have a child is always complicated by work that rewards not being tethered. When she says "I haven't", it's both refusal and reality - an admission that choice and circumstance blur, especially for women whose bodies are their paycheck.

Then she delivers the payoff: "I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends". It's a punchline that doubles as proof-of-concept. The kid isn't a symbol; he's fine, thriving, independent. Tiegs is selling an alternative script: motherhood as something you can enter later without forfeiting the future. The emotional register matters, too - not defiant rage, but breezy insistence. That's how this kind of cultural negotiation often happens: not through manifestos, but through a woman refusing to be shamed in the small talk.