475 The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful with Paulina Porizkova
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
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🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is none other than former model Paulina Porizkova. She just released her book No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, and it was a page turner. I was up until 3 am reading it. It's so good.
I am so, so excited to share this beautiful, candid conversation with Paulina. We cover a lot of ground, from how Paulina's childhood experiences influenced her relationship with Ric Ocasek to her thoughts on aging and the betrayal she experienced when Ric cut her out of his will.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed speaking with Paulina.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, and welcome to a very special episode of The Dairy Gold Show. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm so excited for you to hear this deep dive with Paulina Periscova, who just wrote this beautiful |
| 0:13.6 | book called No Filter, The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful. And if you don't know who she is, |
| 0:21.9 | maybe you don't, but she was a massively huge supermodel. In the 80s and the 90s, she was married to |
| 0:29.2 | Rico Kasek from the cars. She was on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1984. That was her first |
| 0:36.8 | cover for them, but she had done many covers prior. So I mean, really, she started successfully |
| 0:41.0 | modeling at 17 and was everywhere in the US. She's from the Czech, well, Czechoslovakia or the |
| 0:48.0 | Czech Republic. Really, what the book is about, it's a collection of essays that I found so |
| 0:55.1 | compelling. You guys, I stayed up till three in the morning to finish it. It was so good. I loved |
| 1:00.8 | it so much. And part of, I think, why I was so drawn into some of the stories is that some of you |
| 1:08.8 | do know, some of you don't know, before I was a psychotherapist, I was a talent agent for supermodels |
| 1:15.7 | and celebrities. That's what I did is I negotiated contracts. And so I can't believe my path never |
| 1:21.1 | crossed with Paulina back in the day. So I was a little bit later than her. Maybe five years later |
| 1:26.8 | is when I started in beauty and entertainment as an agent. I had been a different agent prior to |
| 1:32.2 | that just for regular actors. Anyway, so a lot of the players that she was talking about and the |
| 1:37.6 | horrendous experiences that she had in the modeling world were so familiar. And actually, |
| 1:44.3 | were the reasons why I left entertainment and became a psychotherapist is that I had really tried |
| 1:52.5 | to change that broken system. One of the chapters she calls, they called us girls. And that was one |
| 2:00.9 | of my beeps when I was running the TV department at Ford modeling agency. And Eileen Ford was no |
| 2:07.0 | longer the head of it. It was her daughter Katie Ford. And I remember I would go into Katie's office |
| 2:11.6 | and all of the bookers who booked the models on the jobs would refer to the models as girls. |
| 2:19.7 | Even though we were representing like Jerry Hall who was like in her 40s at the time and you know |
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