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The Liz Moody Podcast

Growing Up Famous, Navigating Anxiety + Loss, & Aging With Grace With Paulina Porizkova

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Paulina Porizkova is one of the world’s most successful supermodels— she was first Central European woman to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 1984 at age 18, and has since graced the cover of Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and more. At one point she landed the highest paid modeling contract ever as the face of Estee Lauder, and she’s also modeled for brands like Chanel, Versace, and more. Paulina’s new book, No Filter: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful was just released this month. This is a super raw, vulnerable episode where we talk about: Paulina’s new book. On this episode, we talk about: her wild childhood rise to fame, including a kidnapping story and serving as the face of life behind the Iron Curtain how beauty and aging beliefs of the different countries she grew up in shaped her the honest pros and cons of fame the shocking news she received after the death of her husband of 33 years, and how she coped a life changing perspective shift about the relationship between beauty and aging how to navigate the difficult balance between society’s beauty standards and doing what makes you feel beautiful a genius tip for loving your body through age, childbirth, and other life changes how debilitating anxiety and major success can co-exist her daily routines to help with her anxiety (+ her experience taking anxiety medication) her biggest regrets + how she’s using them to shape the present and so much more! We would LOVE to hear from you any thoughts, reactions, or takeaways you have as you’re listening, so definitely screenshot and tag me @lizmoody and Paulina @paulinaporizkov on Instagram. To join the Healthier Together Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthiertogetherpodcast. Get your Healthier Together Deck today at healthyconvo.co and use code LAUNCHDAY to get 10% off, just right now to celebrate launch. This episode is sponsored by AG1 by Athletic Greens. Visit athleticgreens.com/healthiertogether and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. This episode is sponsored by Ava Jane’s Kitchen Colima Sea Salt. Go to HealthierTogetherSalt.com to get your first bag of Colima Sea Salt for free. Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

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0:00.0

Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.

0:04.8

I'm your host, Liz Moody, and I'm a best-selling author and longtime journalist.

0:08.7

This podcast is all about helping you live your healthiest, happiest life whether we're

0:12.4

unlocking how to feel less pain, learning exactly how we should be budgeting our money,

0:17.3

or finding out the secret to becoming more focused.

0:20.3

And yes, those are all real episodes of any of those topics sound good to you, scroll

0:24.2

on back in the archives.

0:26.0

I am so excited to welcome Paulina Portzkova to the podcast today.

0:30.4

Paulina is one of the world's most successful supermodel.

0:33.4

She was the first central European woman to appear on the cover of the sports illustrated

0:37.5

swimsuit issue in 1984, and has since graced the cover of Vogue, L, Cosmopolitan, Glamour,

0:44.4

Harper's Bizarre, basically every single magazine that you can think of.

0:48.2

At one point, she landed the highest-paid modeling contract ever as the face of Estée

0:52.7

Lotta, and she's also modeled for brands like Chanel and Versace.

0:56.6

Oh, and on top of all that, she's spent 33 years married to the frontman of the mega-successful

1:02.0

band The Cars.

1:03.0

It all sounds highly glamorous, and we get into some of that here.

1:06.4

But we also get into a lot of the behind-the-scenes less than glamorous things that you don't really

1:11.4

hear about.

1:12.6

This is a super-raw, vulnerable episode where we talk about her wild childhood rise to fame,

1:17.8

including a kidnapping story, and serving as the face of life behind the Iron Curtain,

1:22.5

how beauty and aging beliefs of the different countries that she grew up and shaped her,

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