Aging & Wisdom Quote by Cheryl Tiegs

Tiegs is doing something very model-industry American here: taking a brute fact (time passes, bodies change, the number climbs) and reframing it as a branding problem you can solve with mindset, discipline, and a little selective attention. By splitting age into three categories, she borrows the authority of science and therapy-speak without getting trapped by either. Chronological age becomes the “dumb” metric, the one you “set aside.” The real contest happens in biological and psychological age, arenas where effort, consumption, and attitude can still be marketed as control.

The intent is defensive but not apologetic. At 52, a woman in a profession built on youth is expected to either vanish or narrate her survival. Tiegs chooses narration: she acknowledges the number (a quick concession to reality), then dismisses it (a quick reclaiming of power). The subtext is a negotiation with a culture that treats women’s aging as public property: she’s saying, don’t file me under expiration date; evaluate me on the parts I can manage.

Context matters: “biological age” echoes the wellness boom and the late-20th-century pivot from glamour to “health” as a socially acceptable way to keep chasing thinness and youth. “Psychological age” adds an emotional alibi: if you feel young, you are young, or at least young enough to keep participating. It works because it’s both honest and evasive, conceding inevitability while selling agency - the perfect script for staying visible in an industry that punishes the calendar.