Model Bethany Nagy: ‘I was considered retirement age by 25!’
Bethany Nagy says she was considered a “retirement age” model when she hit the catwalks at 25. The now 53-year-old modelling veteran spoke out against ageism in the industry after being named one of the models leading a trend of mature women being employed to pose for high-end fashion houses. She told British Vogue: “I started modelling in 1995 when I was 25 – I was already at retirement age when I started. “I was attending graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, in the School of Architecture, at that point in time, and this crazy opportunity came up in Dallas, because that was t...