I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful.… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I was friends with Salvador Dalí until the day he died. Lucky me. I can't say why. I didn't live to be noticed, I… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
![“I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.” quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/481/carmen-dell-orefice-14701_age_i-have-had-more-magazine-covers-in-the-l_338549.jpg)
