Paulina Porizkova has claimed a photographer uncovered himself to her when she was simply 15 years previous.
Paulina Porizkova was sexually harassed when she was simply 15
The 57-year-old mannequin has opened up concerning the “traumatic and offensive incident” which passed off when she was simply starting her profession, admitting she had no thought what was occurring when the unnamed snapper put his penis on her shoulder whereas she was getting her make-up completed.
Showing on ‘Crimson Desk Speak’, she recalled: “So I am 15 years previous, freshly 15 years previous. I am in Paris; getting employed for any form of a job was such an enormous deal as a result of I assumed that each job could be my final and also you needed to be the great little woman who obliged all people.”
Explaining how she was sitting in entrance of a mirror with a hairstylist and make-up artist on this one explicit event, she continued: “The photographer walks in from behind after which I really feel one thing on my shoulder, and it is form of heat and heavy. And he is laughing at me and the make-up artist [is] laughing at me, and the hairdresser is laughing, all people’s laughing.
“And I am like ‘What’s that?’ It nearly appears like a flower, however it looks like pantyhose filled with mashed potatoes. I couldn’t for the world determine this out.
“It wasn’t till he retracted it and zipped up his fly that I realised it was his penis.”
Requested if it was the “first time” she’d seen the physique half, she stated: “Nicely, sure. It was definitely the primary time I noticed a penis.”
Elsewhere on the present, Paulina additionally mentioned how she was left “very particularly broke” following the sudden demise of her estranged ex-husband Ric Ocasek – the daddy of her sons Jonathan, 29, and 24-year-old Oliver – in September 2019.
She stated: “I used to be very particularly broke. I simply wish to set that proper so that folks do not accuse me of mendacity.
“I used to be a girl with belongings. I had two mortgaged homes and I had a pension plan that I can entry in 10 years and nil money, and no option to pay for something. So I used to be in a extremely, actually peculiar place of being a girl with belongings and no cash.”
The previous Sports activities Illustrated mannequin famous the COVID-19 pandemic worsened her state of affairs as a result of “property values in New York had simply fallen off the cliff,” however she had no alternative however to promote her home “instantly”.
She added: “I used to be asking my associates to purchase our groceries for a short time.”
