{"id":144507,"date":"2023-10-25T16:44:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=144507"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:44:21","slug":"im-americas-first-black-supermodel-im-still-wrinkle-free-without-surgery-at-70-my-anti-aging-tips-are-much-cheaper-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/fashion\/im-americas-first-black-supermodel-im-still-wrinkle-free-without-surgery-at-70-my-anti-aging-tips-are-much-cheaper-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm America's first Black supermodel – I'm still wrinkle-free without surgery at 70, my anti-aging tips are much cheaper | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEVERLY Johnson, looks decades younger than she is \u2014 so it may be a shock to hear she's been strutting her stuff for half a century.<\/p>\n

Now 70, America's first Black supermodel is marking the 50th anniversary of when she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue.<\/p>\n


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Speaking to The U.S. Sun, the star shared her thoughts on plastic surgery, her anti-aging routine, and a peek into being a grandma on an upcoming family reality show \u2014 that will have "a little more flavor than the Kardashians."<\/p>\n

Beverly, who has worked with the most famous fashion designers and photographers in the world, credits her youthful looks and liveliness to her fitness and beauty. <\/p>\n

Now a grandmother, the trailblazing superwoman is even busier today than in her cover girl days.<\/p>\n

Beverly, who closed out the Dennis Basso New York Fashion Week show in February to a standing ovation, practices Pilates as a religion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She credits her workout of choice with not only her stunning figure, but also helping with physical balance as she ages.<\/p>\n

"If it wasn't for Pilates, I wouldn't have been able to walk the runway. People think you just walk but you try it," she exclusively told The U.S. Sun. <\/p>\n

"It's like performing a dance, you can't just be a ballerina or a dancer, it takes real training and skill."<\/p>\n

She also trained with runway coach Miss J. Alexander of America's Top Model fame.<\/p>\n

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She said: "I got Miss J to coach me and work on my strength so that I could wear seven-inch heels.<\/p>\n

"It's hard to walk that runway so it was definitely a a process.<\/p>\n

"We went to work on my feet for the catwalk. It's all that flexibility in the feet and the big toe that help with your core and posture."<\/p>\n

She also explained how aside from sculpting long lean legs, Pilates helps with balance, something which Beverly said is crucial as you age.<\/p>\n

She said: "There are certain muscles that have to be engaged constantly.<\/p>\n

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"You're not able to move like you were once you get to a certain age, but Pilates will get you back to where you used to be."<\/p>\n

Beverly, who lives near Rancho Mirage, California, also stays on top of all of the latest beauty trends. <\/p>\n

"I just like discovering new things and products and looking wonderful and healthy," she explained. <\/p>\n

Her favorite person might just be Dr. Wendy Roberts, a dermatologist who she calls "the youth booster."<\/p>\n

To keep her model looks, she also won't let anyone else but Dr. Roberts inject her with Botox. <\/p>\n

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But it hasn't always been that way, and she had some bad reactions while living in LA.<\/p>\n

"People would be scared of me. Some of these doctors are just so heavy-handed," she said.<\/p>\n

"No one knows I have it because I look like myself, not like a replica of someone else's style."<\/p>\n

With the same supermodel skin even 50 years after her first Vogue cover \u2014 and many subsequent covers \u2014 Beverly also uses Retrouve skincare products. <\/p>\n

She swears by the brand's scientifically advanced products and explained that everything comes in dark bottles so that no oxygen hits it.<\/p>\n

"With most makeup, by the time they put it in the bottle, the main ingredients are already evaporated."<\/p>\n

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"It is pricey but it really does more than what it says and is better than most," she explained.<\/p>\n

Founded by Kiehl's heir and Beverly's good friend Jami Heidegger, Retrouve is known for its formulations and advanced airless manufacturing process. <\/p>\n

Her biggest obsession is the brand's Baume Body Oil.<\/p>\n

"I lather it all on. The new balancing face oil is amazing also, it doesn't block your pores and you can use it under your makeup.<\/p>\n

"They grow avocados on a 25-acre farm in Malibu, which I have visited."<\/p>\n

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When it comes to hydrating, only one type of water will do for the high fashion model: Hallstein Water.<\/p>\n

According to Beverly, the brand offers the purest water on earth that comes right out of the glaciers from the Alps.<\/p>\n

She also said that her heritage gives her an advantage when it comes to her natural beauty.<\/p>\n

Aside from her favorites \u2014 the $240 Baume Body Oil and $190 balancing face oil \u2014 Beverly also spilled on her other no longer secret go-to skincare products. <\/p>\n

These include the $75 intensive replenishing facial moisturizer, the $215 revitalizing eye concentrate skin hydrator, the $75 luminous cleansing elixir, and the $170 nutrient face serum. <\/p>\n

"Being Black is wonderful because we have a head start with the way we look. <\/p>\n

Black people don't crack, but other people don't scar like we do. Until they figure out how to eliminate scarring \u2014 and I'm talking plastic surgery and anything else \u2014 no knife is coming near me.<\/p>\n

"Black people don't crack, but other people don't scar like we do.<\/p>\n

"Until they figure out how to eliminate scarring \u2014 and I'm talking plastic surgery and anything else \u2014 no knife is coming near me."<\/p>\n

She is also a proponent of people doing whatever they need to look and feel the way that they want. <\/p>\n

Beverly has helped others regain their confidence with the wig line she had founded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With her youthful looks and boost of energy, she is still ready for her close-up. <\/p>\n

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Mostly, the model, who has published her memoirs \u2014 Warner Brothers will be bringing her story to a screen soon \u2014 believes that you have to know where you came from in order to know where you're going. <\/p>\n

And Beverly hasn't forgotten her humble beginnings either \u2014 and she never planned on becoming a model.<\/p>\n

In fact, her main dream was once to be in a courtroom, not on a magazine cover, and she initially bristled at the idea.<\/p>\n

Coming up in the 60s and during the Civil Rights movement, Beverly had other plans for herself. <\/p>\n

That all changed when the homesick college student lost her job at the YMCA where she was working as a lifeguard and realized that her parents would not be able to afford the tuition. <\/p>\n

She heard that a model could make $75 in a day – the same amount that it was taking her father to make as a steel worker – in a week.<\/p>\n

"I said, for standing with their hands on their hips?"<\/p>\n

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And the rest is history. <\/p>\n

Beverly was determined to learn everything about the business so that she could be number one.<\/p>\n

At the time, she knew nothing about the industry \u2014 including the fact that Black people had never been on the cover of Vogue \u2014 or any other major fashion magazine.<\/p>\n

"They don't go around announcing we don't put black people on the cover," she explained. <\/p>\n

"The industry was like the Wild West, there was no transparency \u2014 and it's not always pretty. <\/p>\n

"I could have been making $1 million dollars for a job and I didn't know what the agent was giving me from that."<\/p>\n

Beverly’s Anti-Aging Tips <\/h3>\n