Aging & Wisdom Quote by Eva Herzigova

Herzigova’s line lands like a wink from someone who’s lived inside the beauty economy long enough to name its expiration dates. “You can’t be a model at age 60” isn’t a lament so much as a cold inventory of how the industry prices women: youth as the product, novelty as the currency, visibility as a lease with harsh renewal terms. She states it plainly because the fashion world rarely does; it just rotates bodies out with the silent efficiency of seasonal trends.

The pivot is the real punch: “but you certainly can be an actress.” She’s not merely praising acting; she’s contrasting two kinds of cultural labor. Modeling is often treated as surface - a face rented to sell desire. Acting, even in its most commercial forms, can claim interiority: voice, character, narrative, the permission to age into complexity. The word “certainly” carries a trace of defiance, as if she’s calling out the absurdity that one craft is deemed age-proof while the other is designed to be perishable.

Coming from a model, the comment doubles as self-repositioning. It’s a savvy acknowledgment that fame built on appearance is precarious, and that longevity requires a role with authorship, not just exposure. There’s also a quiet indictment: if acting is the path to dignity, why does modeling have to be a trapdoor? The quote works because it’s both practical career math and a critique of an industry that confuses a woman’s value with her freshness.