Musk wrote in her memoir that she stopped bleaching her hair when she was nearing 60, after feeling down. As her white roots grew in, she cut her hair short and found she loved the new look.
Her agent, however, was not impressed. When she saw Musk’s new hair and photos, she warned that she would “never work again,” Musk wrote.
Instead, Musk realized her contract allowed her to send her new photos to agencies outside New York City. Fifteen signed her and booked her for work across Europe and the US. She also caught the eye of a Time magazine casting director, who noticed Musk walking her dog every morning, leading to a photo feature inside the magazine.
Elsewhere in the memoir, Musk recounts her initial hesitation over appearing in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue, because her agents had long told her she did not have a “swimsuit body.”
“Even at my smallest, my bottom never did that thing the magazines usually look for in a swimsuit model — smoothly transitioned into my thigh without a fold — and it certainly didn’t do that now,” she wrote.
She worried about showing her wrinkles and cellulite, but her daughter encouraged her to do it, so she reconsidered.
“What was I so afraid of? Men never worry about their wrinkles; they add gravitas. Overweight men still walk proudly in their little speedos. Women gain five pounds and we hide behind our towels. All those years of indoctrination from agents and the industry — it was time to throw all that nonsense out,” Musk wrote. “I would walk proudly and show the world how happy and healthy I was in my swimsuit, and my seventy-plus-year-old body.”
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