Isabella Rossellini Is A Kick-Ass Role Model For Women

At 68, the actor, model, writer and farmer is embracing aging

Model, actor, writer, filmmaker, animal behaviorist and farmer Isabella Rossellini, is happy. In an article in The Guardian, Rossellini, 68 — the daughter of of two movie legends, actor Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini —clearly is embracing being an older woman.

“This is the great thing about getting old: things that preoccupied you when you were young cease to preoccupy you. I would have loved to have had one Oscar. Well, too bad. I have six sheep, two dogs, two children.”

After two marriages, to director Martin Scorsese and former model Jonathan Wiedemann, a six-year relationship with David Lynch and a two-year engagement to Gary Oldman, what she doesn’t have anymore is a husband or life partner. She’s OK with that, too.

“I don’t think I could do the amount of things I do if I have a husband. Husbands are time-consuming.”

At what has she done? Well, a lot, especially after being dumped by Lancôme because the company considered her, at 43, to be too old. But 20 years later, when the company got a new chief executive officer — a woman — she was asked to come back, which she did.