An 80 year old model!

I’m proof you CAN become a model at 80, says retired primary teacher and grandmother Beate Howitt who was spotted while out shopping in Oxford.

‘It’s sensational,’ says Beate. ‘I’ve always dreamed of being a model. Of course, part of me was surprised anyone wanted to see this old face. But I’ve never thought of myself as getting older; I always live in the moment. Now a whole new chapter of life is opening up.'

And, while this new-found success may have arrived late, it is the realisation of a life-long ambition: Beate first dreamed of working as a model more than 65 years ago, in the Fifties when she was a teenager.

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Daily Mail