Paulina Porizkova, 56, Bares It All While Getting Honest About Her Marriage
- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later.
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below."
Paulina Porizkova, 56, just opened up about her marriage to Ric Ocasek in a brand new interview.
The model spoke out about when she knew her relationship with Ric had ended, and how she's looking forward to better days ahead.
Paulina also recently settled a long dispute with Ric's estate, two years after his death.
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova is getting honest about her 30-year marriage to Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. In a brand new, emotional interview, Paulina, 56, got real about when she knew it was time to end her relationship with Ric and how she's feeling now.
In the 20-minute video, Paulina strips down to black lingerie while describing the moment when she realized Ric was growing distant from her. "We had been together for my entire life since I was 19, and suddenly he seemed not to find me attractive anymore," she revealed, per Fox News. "I started feeling like I was a coffee table, something you put s—t on and bump into the middle of the night but pay no more attention to other than that."
"It made me feel worthless as a woman," she said. "I thought I was going to stay with this man for the rest of my life."
Paulina also mentioned that she didn't feel heard in her marriage and felt objectified. "I realized that I wanted my partner, my husband, to listen to me, so that he could see that I’m no longer just the hot model that he married," she added.
"There were other things about me that I thought were valuable–pretty much everything but my looks. I had thought I was boring for 30 years because my husband made me feel boring. Because whenever I would speak, he would just yawn and look around and completely dismiss me. I sort of went with that for a while until I could no longer take it," she continued.
But when Paulina tried to stand up for herself, things got even worse. "I started changing the rules on what our marriage was supposed to be, and then he started changing his rules, too," she shared. "'Oh, well, if you’re gonna be demanding and a b—h, then, well, I’m not gonna touch you.'"
Although Paulina still loved Ric, she said she knew their relationship couldn't continue this way. So, she gave him an "ultimatum" in the hopes it "might snap him out of it." "I said, ‘You know, I’m really unhappy, and you don’t seem to want to work on anything, and so I think maybe we should be heading towards separation, maybe divorce,'" she recalled.
Ric's response was less than supportive. "He just looked at me really coldly and said, ‘Well, it seems like your mind’s made up, so whatever.’ And that was it. I really, really couldn’t believe it… That was all the fight he was going to put up for me," Paulina said.
After that, she knew their marriage was over. "I loved my husband for 35 years," she explained. "The last three of which we were separated. We were there for each other in those kinds of physical ways that we had become habituated to. It was just no longer marriage."
The pair officially separated in 2017, two years before Ric's death. Paulina found his body in their Gramercy Park townhouse—and learned the next day that Ric had cut her out of his will without telling her.
Paulina said she struggled with her mental health after her husband's death and combatted depression, anxiety, and plenty of anger. She was also going through menopause at the time, which made her feel like a completely different person.
"To me, my menopause is tied into the grief over my husband," she revealed. "I felt like somebody just peeled my skin off. Like this process of grieving and heartbreak and betrayal, it stripped me of my Paulina skin, the one that I used to know, the one that used to protect me. I don’t have anything that protects me anymore."
Paulina was also honest about her experience with ageism in the modeling industry. Her modeling career began at the young age of 15. But once she turned 45, Paulina said she noticed people treated her differently.
"I was sort of getting relinquished to the invisible women category," she said, per the Daily Mail. "It dawned on me that when you walk down the street when you're a younger woman, it's like every man passes you and goes, 'Is she f—kable?'"
"And you think, hold on a second, I am actually a far more interesting person than I've ever been and this is where you don't want to see me anymore because I've aged out of being physically appealing to you," she added.
Still, Paulina is looking forward to a brighter future ahead and is focusing on what's to come. In October, she finally received a monetary settlement from Ric's estate, according to Vulture. While she couldn't comment on the amount, Paulina shared on an episode of Los Angeles Magazine's The Originals podcast that “I know exactly how much I’m owed under New York law, how much is due to me, and I am getting it."
“The estate is settling with me," she continued. "That I cannot tell you, but I am gonna be fine. I am gonna be fine. I settled last week. There you go. I settled last week with the estate. They were very fair. They gave me what is mine under New York State law, and we’re done.”
"As much as I embrace this body, and as much as I’m proud of who I am, I’m also broken," Paulina said in the video interview. "And I’m assembling myself. So it’s not the greatest place to be yet. It will be, though. It will be pretty freaking awesome."
You Might Also Like
