News Room : Supermodel Paulina Porizkova showcases incredible bikini body to celebrate 61st birthday

Paulina Porizkova put her age-defying bikini body on full display as she celebrated her 61st birthday this week.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the Sports Illustrated model revealed she has amped up her workouts recently to get her physique ready for the summer.

And she showed off the fruits of her labor by slipping into a skimpy two-piece – which she referred to as her ‘super cute summer bikini’ – for her 1.4million followers.

She flexed her muscles before twirling around in her bedroom in the empowering clip, where she opened up about her ‘self-acceptance’ journey.

After showing off her bikini, Porizkova slipped on an elegant sundress, a brown leather belt and sunglasses before blowing a kiss at the camera.

She admitted that she was the ‘most insecure’ when she was 21 years old ‘at the height of [her] career and supermodel-dom.’

Paulina Porizkova put her age-defying bikini body on full display as she rang in her 61st birthday on Thursday

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the supermodel revealed she has amped up her workouts recently to get her physique ready for the summer

Porizkova said that insecurity ‘partly’ stemmed from ‘the endless comparisons to other models by the people that employed [her].’

‘I never seemed to be good enough.’

She also felt insecure during her modeling days because her ‘self-worth was entirely tied to [her] looks.’ 

So, on the eve of her 61st birthday, Porizkova decided to put on a skimpy bikini and ‘flex the muscles [she’s] been working [her] cellulite-butt off for.’

She said that her extra workouts are ‘not necessarily so [she] can look best’ in her swimwear but so she can ‘feel [her] best’ in her 60s.

But Porizkova stopped herself and admitted that she ‘kicked [her] workout up like 10 notches because [she does] want to look [her] best this summer.

‘But not necessarily in a bikini… in a wedding dress,’ she concluded, seemingly hinting that her wedding to fiance Jeff Greenstein may be just around the corner.

Greenstein proposed last July after two years of dating. The couple went public with their romance in May 2023 after meeting just three months earlier.

Porizkova seen on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue in February 1985

She showed off the fruits of her labor by slipping into a skimpy two-piece – which she referred to as her ‘super cute summer bikini’ – for her 1.4million followers

She flexed her muscles before twirling around in her bedroom in the empowering clip, where she opened up about her ‘self-acceptance’ journey

She said that her extra workouts are ‘not necessarily so [she] can look best’ in her swimwear but so she can ‘feel [her] best’ in her 60s

Before Greenstein, Porizkova briefly dated Hollywood screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin in 2021.

She was also famously in a 28-year marriage to The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, who passed away in 2019.

The exes split one year before his death in 2018 and they shared two children: Jonathan Raven Ocasek, 32, and Oliver Orion Ocasek, 27. 

Last month, Porizkova uploaded a video of herself modeling pink lingerie where she spoke about how ‘in the last few years’ she has ‘gained like 15lbs.’

In the clip, she answered the question: ‘How do you look so fabulous at 60?’

‘It’s all just in good light and posing,’ she went on to explain. 

Zooming in on one of her arms, she pulled at the skin, and said, ‘The reality is this: I’m 60-years-old. This is what it looks like.’

She added, ‘And this tummy is not going anywhere. Also, it carried two children. And that’s… doesn’t matter how many Pilates lessons and how much weight I lift – the skin is just the skin.’

The star concluded, ‘But you know what? I like myself better this way.’ 

She admitted that she was the ‘most insecure’ when she was 21 years old ‘at the height of [her] career and supermodel-dom’; seen in 1986

Last month, Porizkova uploaded a video of herself modeling pink lingerie where she spoke about how ‘in the last few years’ she has ‘gained like 15lbs’ 

Last year, she explained that her weight gain came after she underwent a bilateral hip replacement in early 2024.

Porizkova didn’t even notice that she had gained weight due to how ‘happy’ her life has been.

‘The funny thing is, I was so happy with my life; the end of chronic pain, building a life with my love, traveling with friends and working on new writing projects – that I had no idea I had gained all this weight until I went to Paris for my first modeling job of the year. Which was in September,’ she wrote to fans.

‘I don’t exactly mind this new, fuller body. Compared to a year ago when I was 15lbs less but in constant pain, my new softness feels soothing.’