Carmen del Orefis: nurture - nonsense?

American model and actress Carmen del Orefis was born on 3 June 1931, and this year it celebrates its 80th birthday. Let's admire her beautiful photos - from the young to the beauty of the model, recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the model with the longest career.





Carmen spent his childhood in poverty, the mother raised her alone, often leaving Carmen with strangers, to go to work. Carmen was a child's dream - to become a ballerina, but ill with severe fever, she gave up that dream.



Carmen became a model by chance. She was 13 years old when the bus she was noticed by the wife of the photographer Harper Bazaar. She had a trial photo shoot and then Carmen's mother received a letter stating that her daughter does inphotogenic. However, her godfather decided to give another chance to Carmen, and showed her pictures of his friend, the editor of Vogue.



A week later, Carmen had already received her first professional photo shoot, and shortly thereafter came to her glory.































She began flickering pages and Vogue, and Harper Bazaar, receive huge fees. Wonderful happy with her career, but in his personal life, it was not so brilliant. Behind her three failed marriages, but Carmen's daughter.







When Carmen turned 47, she was already tired of talking about leaving the modeling business. However, one of her friends, the photographers continued to shoot her, trusting in her beauty. Carmen has turned gray hair, and she began to brighten them - so there corporate identity del Carmen Orefis, became its hallmark today.





She was independent, mature and sexy women. There role in the movie, also brought her success.







In 2000, she took part in a fashion show by John Galliano, earning a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the model with the longest career. Now Carmen has no intention of throwing a career, still appearing in shows and photo shoots the most famous designers.