No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Author Paulina Porizkova

Air Date: Monday, March 17^th  

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Photo Credit: The Drew Barrymore Show/Ash Bean

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Paulina Porizkova on the First Time She Met Drew

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Drew: What, what age were we when we met?

Paulina: The very first time we met, I was co-hosting ‘Saturday Night Live.’ And you were about 11.

Drew: That tracks.

Paulina: And my husband's manager, Elliot Roberts, came into my room, my into the dressing room and he said there's a little girl outside that would really like to meet you. Can I bring her in? And I was like, yeah, of course. You know, why, why would, why would you even need to ask me? Of course, bring her in. And he brings in you. And I was like, but that's like Drew Barrymore.

Paulina on How She Got Her Modeling Start

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Drew: Where did you get discovered? How did it all happen? And I know you can read about it, but.

Paulina: You can read about it in my book, No Filter, but yes, but also to make it brief, I was, it was my best girlfriend that that loved to do photography and she loved to do makeup and so she would use me as her little, you know, test rabbit when I was like 12, 13, and she would do these like little Kodak Instamatic pictures and she sent them to I guess a modeling school in town and the woman that she sent the pictures to saying, ‘What do you think of my photography and how does one do like professional makeup?’ The lady got back to her and she's like, ‘Makeup, schmakeup. Who's the girl? How tall is she and how old is she?’ And so I met up with this lady that I had no idea, my girlfriend was like, ‘Would you meet with this lady that thinks that you have potential as a model?’ and I was like, what? It, to me that was as far as if she had said, you know, do you wanna go out into outer space? Because I was like I was really bullied in school. I was, a political refugee. I was known as a political refugee is that, this is all in my book, by the way, if anybody cares if you're interested, thank you, thank you. So growing up, I wasn't growing up as a pretty little girl. I was growing up as the gawky little communist kid that's, you know, like can't get a date to save her life and so when somebody said model, I was like, they, they must be making a mistake and I went to meet this lady and she introduced me to John Casablanca about 3 weeks later. I'm still 14 years old at this point. And John Casablanca was the owner of Elite Models.

Drew: He was the biggest, and his son Julian Casablancas was the bandmate of my boyfriend Fabi for 5 years.

Paulina: That's right, I know, and we did not run into each other then, but I can tell you that, I changed Julian's diaper a few times and he hit me with a baseball bat.

Drew: Oh God, I'm sure he's like, oh why did I do that now?

Paulina: Anyway, so she, so, and John just kind of looked at me and he said, ‘Do you wanna go to Paris?’ And I was about to go to France to be an au pair. I was like, sorry family, I guess I'm gonna go and try my luck at that modeling thing.

Paulina on Meeting Her Partner on a Dating App and Figuring Out What She Wanted

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Drew: You also have someone in your life that to me seems like a, something I also kinda wanna talk about is like a movement which is good choices.

Paulina: Good choices which you can only make when you know what you want. I took 3 years between the death of my husband and meeting my now love, took 3 years where I dated a lot because I felt like I needed to find out what it is that I wanted, you know, that I know what I don't want, but what do I want? And I needed the examples again found a lot of what I didn't want. But cool, you know, experience.

Drew: But you actually met your person on a dating app. That is, that gives me so much hope. That's, that gives everybody hope. If you go out and you meet someone at a party and you meet someone on an app, it's like we all need those seeds of hope because you're like, oh, it does happen, it can happen, and it's so beautiful.

Paulina Reads Drew’s Palm

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Paulina: It’s true that I read hands and I've been reading hands since I was a little girl.

Drew: Could I offer you my palms and you can tell me if you see anything?

Paulina: I think. All right, yes, yes, OK, you're, you're going to get really, really nice and old and OK, so here's your hands, the hand, your left hand is the hand of, fate, so this has been predestined and it doesn't change, and your right hand changes as you change. So you always have a choice, which is a wonderful thing about life. It seems like life itself, right? It's like there are certain things that the universe gives you, but you will mostly have a choice in what you do with it, and then it changes the outcome. But what I see first is that you're on the right path.

You're on the right path and it's going to be a good path. It's a deep path. It's a path filled with purpose and joy, and you're going to have a, you're going to go out like this. Death is gonna be like, unplug, good. I'm talking about making lemonade out of lemons, a lot, a lot of that in your hand. You had very spotty luck, very strong in places, and then weak in others. What we all want to see in your hand, I think, and what you want to see is, is there anybody coming up? Is there a companionship? Is there, are you going to find somebody? Let's see, there was one love affair early on in your life, very significant, incredibly important. I think this is before you got married and in your hand of fate there's really only that one and then it just kind of clears up in your hand of decision making there's a lot more so you went for, you might have gone for men that you were never intended to be with. The last one, was a big important one, and it's over. There is the beginning, there is the inclination of something coming. But you're not quite there yet. Your mind has not made up its, you're not in the position where you're inviting it in yet.

Hand of fate says nothing. Done, finished, empty.

Drew: Good. I have a commune plan with my girlfriends. That's gonna be great.

Paulina: You can totally, you can totally go that way. So right now you're in the middle. You can either invite it in, but if you do, you have to mean it, yeah.

Drew: That is completely accurate to the way I feel.