Meet The World's Oldest Working Supermodel At 83

Meet 83-year-old, New York born beauty Carmen Dell’Orefice, the world’s oldest working supermodel.

She first covered Vogue when she was 15 and has enjoyed a wonderful career ever since.

In the new edition of New You the 83 year talks about everything from maintaining her model figure through seven decades in the industry, to ‘preparing’ for death, and still enjoying sex in her 80’s.

Read the excerpts below:

On Enjoying sex in her 80’s: ‘Of course I still have a sex life, why would I give that up?’ she insists. ‘Do I love to breathe? If you have a Rolls Royce and it is up on wheels, you go in with the key and every now and then turn on the motor to make sure the motor is running. So when you want to drive the car, it is all oiled and ready.’

On how she maintains her model figure over 70 years she has been working: “I eat to my appetite and don’t count calories. I want to enjoy food passionately. I could have gotten into trouble with food in my lifetime because I love to eat but I was given a free pass because I metabolize food well.”

“If you don’t like watery spinach learn to braise it yourself or eat it raw,’ she advises. ‘That is the creativity of living.”

Carmen, pictured in 1955 at the age of 23 in the aisle of an airplane

On preparing for death: Having lost two friends one being model agent Eileen Ford.”They prepared me for dying because they knew how to live their lives.”

‘Most people don’t know how to live their life so they don’t know how to die. They are startled or confused by it but it is part of living. That’s why I always say, when I die it’s going to be my way.’

Carmen, is an American model and actress, who was born in New York to parents of Italian and Hungarian descent, and has been married three times and engaged once.