At 18 years old, I had my head in the clouds and it was fabulous. Now, at age 45, I go to work with my feet on the ground, and that’s empowering,” says South Africa-born Georgina Grenville from her Paris home. The model, who came to fame as the wildly sexy, mischievous beauty wearing slithery silk-jersey cut-away dresses and hipster miniskirts in the Gucci by Tom Ford era, recently walked the runway for Hermès in camel trousers and a cashmere sweater—same dagger cheekbones, but the years have made her even more striking.
“Back then, I was paid to be pretty and was more concerned with what people thought of me. Age is about being comfortable in your own skin, and now when I hear that little neurotic voice, I don’t really care,” explains Grenville, a mother of three, who also starred in Versace’s pre-fall 2020 film, playing a matriarch who returns to the family villa to find her teenage kids at the tail end of a raucous party.
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