Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, 61, Sparks Debate With Makeup-Free Video on the Eyelid Surgery Trend
On November 11, 61-year-old supermodel Paulina Porizkova posted a makeup-free video on Instagram about the flood of eyelid surgery posts on social media, sparking a wide online conversation. According to Parade and OK! magazine, she zooms in on her own eyelids in the video and asks whether she should join the trend and get the surgery, or keep her natural hooded eyes.
Text over the video reads: “Time to get a bleph? Seems all the kids are doing it… or should I try to embrace my hooded eyes?” Set to “Starry Eyes” by Cigarettes After Sex, the video flashes photos of women known for their hooded eyes, including Lauren Bacall, Tatiana Patitz, Eva Green, Karlie Kloss, Charlotte Rampling, Romy Schneider and Faye Dunaway. In her caption, she suggested that instead of paying for surgery, she could save the money for another vacation and create fabulous memories.
“I can’t open my IG these days without being bombarded by the Blephs,” she wrote. “But surely I am not the only one who still appreciates a gorgeous heavy lid on a woman.” She said many of her friends have had the procedure, are happy with the results and have zero regrets, and that she is thrilled for them. Her only twinge of regret, she wrote, is selfishly her own: “I miss seeing my friends as I knew them. I thought they were beautiful already. The changes didn’t make them more so, only differently so.” Missing the familiar makes her feel like a hypocrite, she added, since she also believes change is to be welcomed; for now, she navigates by what makes her feel good about herself.
Commenters quickly shared their own views and experiences, with one writing that her hooded eyes are probably her best feature. A bleph, short for blepharoplasty, is eyelid surgery that removes or repositions excess skin and sometimes fat around the eyes; upper eyelid surgery is often done to reduce hooded or drooping lids, while lower eyelid surgery typically addresses under-eye bags. According to OK!, citing the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery’s 2025 Global Survey, more than 2.4 million eyelid surgeries were performed worldwide in 2025, making blepharoplasty the most common surgical aesthetic procedure for the second straight year.
Born on April 9, 1965, in Czechoslovakia, Porizkova became the first Central European woman to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 1984. She has long used her social media platform to talk candidly, makeup-free and unfiltered, about aging, beauty pressure and how women see their own changing faces, and this video continues that thread.
Source: Parade
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Photo: 图：Paulina Porizkova 本人资料图（2014年摄于布拉格，David Sedlecký 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons），竖幅原图已垫成精确16:9成品（头部完整留边、双眼睁开）。/ Paulina Porizkova (file photo taken in Prague in 2014, by David Sedlecký, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons), padded from the vertical original to an exact 16:9 frame with her head fully in frame and eyes open.
