Isabella Rossellini Has Defined—and Redefined—Beauty for Decades. #HarpersBazaar

Love Isabella Rossellini ! The 68-year-old model, actor, and filmmaker opens up about refusing to be hemmed in by Hollywood and her pandemic fling (“it was delightful”) from harpersbazaar.com

“I like animals and I like nature, so I always said that instead of having a swimming pool and a tennis court, I would start a farm. So now the farm is much more of a community project. It’s incredible how it changes the life of a neighborhood to have a farm.” Rossellini on going back to school, to study animal behavior and conservation at Hunter College, earning her master’s degree.

“I always say that, to me, beauty is an expression of elegance. And elegance is the expression of a thought”.

“ I don’t constantly look at myself like an object. Your question really is a question that assumes a woman constantly criticizes the way she’s looking.” When asked how motherhood changed her relationship to her body.

“I want to be elegant, but I don’t want to seduce anybody. I don’t want to take anybody to my bed.”

“I didn’t expect that at 68 you can have a fling. I have to say it was very pleasant and very surprising because at 68, after 20 years, you say it’s not going to happen. So it was delightful, but I’m back [to] being single, and happy to be single again”

“It wasn’t that he defined my beauty in any way, but it was companionship. And that I miss.”

“We were caught in the time of Covid, in those early months, in my house, and now he went back to the West Coast, where he lives. And so I always quote Casablanca. You know the line is, ‘We’ll always have Paris.’ I always say to this man, ‘We’ll always have Covid.’  Read more here