Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Beauty of Retrospect, February Model Edition: Happy Birthday, Nancy Donahue! (Part Five)

Nancy Donahue, of course, is more than just a model. She's a versatile woman who has excelled in everything she's tried.  She went back to school - culinary school - and became a pastry chef, working for a catering service in her home state of Massachusetts for many years.  She's also a certified personal trainer and yoga teacher, and she worked as a fitness director at a country club.

Her fitness expertise led her and a group of like-minded individuals to develop a body buffer designed to smooth skin, diminish the presence of cellulite, and ease tense muscles, which she and her partners market and sell as the BelleCore body buffer.  You can learn more about it here.

Oh, and did I happen to mention that she's a triathlete?  And a pretty formidable one, too.

As a result, she remains in such good shape that she's gone back to modeling.  All of these pictures are from her return to her original profession.  


The picture of Nancy Donahue above was taken for New Jersey cosmetics mogul Bobbi Brown, and our birthday girl brings a whole new idea to "casual formal." :-)

The more staid headshot is from a 1997 skin-care ad.  It appeared in Mirabella, the since-folded namesake magazine of former Vogue editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella, aimed at women in their thirties and forties.  Nancy Donahue was 39 at the time this appeared, and it puts to rest the canard that feminine beauty doesn't improve with age. 
   

And the beautiful woman you see above is the same woman you'd see on the street.


See? 

The "No U-Turn" sign in the photo above is appropriately symbolic and symbolically appropriate.  Nancy Donahue lives life forward without turning back. 

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