Big thank you to a beautiful week!
Styling by Jesse Hart. Photography by Steven Chee.
"This is a big lesson: No one is going to do it for you; you are in control of how you live every day.” Martha Stewart"
When I started modeling, I gave an interview to the German Magazine called “Amica”. They asked me who my heros are and I send a very long answer, about how much I admire my mother and my grandfather…. I also mentioned Angelina Jolie and they ended up, only printing her name my hero. Today, I came across this beautiful article in the New York Times, in which Angelina Jolie stops protecting her private life, to make awareness of breast cancer and I know once more, why I choose her to be one of my heros. She is an incredible Women, using her fame for a good cause. Thank you Angelina!
I think you learn from life, I don’t think you learn from work. People always say, well what did you learn from this character? And I’m like, no what I learn in my life is what I apply to work. I don’t learn a lot at work, it’s a little bit like saying—how do films influence culture? Well, how does culture influence film? Film doesn’t do anything original. What art does is reflect culture back to the world at large. What I’ve learned as a human being, as a parent, as a spouse, and as a friend and worker, all of those things I take and put into my work.
One day in paradise at the Parker in Palm Springs shooting with Ben Fink Shapiro
Photography by Paul de Luna
Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprised him most. This was his response. “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present, the result being that he does not live in the present or the future, he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”
