Category Archives: Beauty Quest

Not So Great Shape Grandma Barbie

Are You in Great Shape? As opposed to Great Shape Barbie? I’m the Not So Great Shape Grandma Barbie – but I’m overcoming my struggles with body image. Do you want to know why? As a teenage-fashion model, I worked in an industry with beauty standards few could attain and even fewer could keep. During...

Aging Gracefully or How to Embrace Aging

  I’m much more positive about aging in my fifties than I was in my thirties, when I first began to experience the second law of thermodynamics – and noticed that my body was indeed degenerating into a more disordered state. When I turned 30, I dug through a box of my modeling pictures and came...

Success in Modeling?

Modeling is a tough business for anyone and especially a teenager. Two On The Town, a Los Angeles television show, did a feature on modeling. The introduction stated that it is not enough just to be beautiful—that height, weight and bone structure alone will not make you a model. They posed the question, “What does...

The Man Behind The Camera – Frank Horvat

In October of 1979, I went on a “go-see” for a magazine named Jours De France. Upon arrival, I was ushered into a room with a wall of windows and sunlight streaming through. A rack of clothes was in the center of the room, and models were in various states of undress as the stylist...

Tonya in TEEN magazine 1980

As I read thru this article from TEEN Magazine 1980 – I realize that I was just beginning my journey into the Ugly Business of Beautiful People. I was 16-years-old.  

Oh, Honey!

I found lots of healthy treasures at the farmers’ market that Zachary & Katie took me to. The peaches were juicy, sweet and beyond delicious. Zac was happy that Enchanted Bees had honeycomb for sale. My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste. Proverbs 24:13 The...

Got Goat?

  My son, Zachary (who is obviously extremely fit) has been trying to help me make healthy lifestyle changes. Today, we went to the Farmer’s Market and visited the Goat’s Milk booth, aka Unique Le’ Natural. The soap Katie purchased smells delicious enough to eat and Zac says I’ll enjoy drinking the milk. Hmmmm….. we...

Making Up

“You have what God gave you and what you can do with a lipstick pencil.” –My Modeling Agent, Eileen Ford J. Vernon Magee, an old time radio evangelist, was approached with the question of whether Christian women should wear make-up. He answered, “If the barn needs painting, paint it!” Make-up allows us to accentuate the...

Old Before Your Time

Snapchat has lots of filters – one is for aging yourself. I’m guessing this won’t be a popular item for anyone past 40. 😉