Entrepreneur Caprice Bourret on gaining confidence, being business savvy and fully embracing her age
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To use Caprice Bourret’s own words, it’s time to “cut the BS” as the former World’s Sexiest Woman embraces life in her fifties.
As we chat – while she is halfway up a Serbian mountain filming a Christmas movie – the supermodel, entrepreneur and actress says she is “better than I’ve ever been”, and has a powerful message to send – particularly to those who think the only way to go in middle age is downwards.
We’re actually due to talk about her new lingerie range, but the conversation veers off into parenting her 10-year-old sons, her head for business, views on ageing, and even the power of a “good old-fashioned orgasm”.
But first, we want to know why – more than two decades after her first record-breaking lingerie collaboration – she thinks now is the right time for a second bite at the cherry?
“From a business perspective, this isn’t my first rodeo and I know my stuff,” she tells us. “But also to be 52 and to look the way I do, it’s about messaging and empowerment. I’m not saying that loosely, I’m saying that with a lot of passion. Everyone has this fear of getting older and we shouldn’t, we should embrace it.”
The Love by Caprice collection at Peacocks – which includes cosy-looking stripy pyjamas, floral T-shirt bras and sexy laced basques and bodysuits – is part of the “same messaging”, she says.
“I remember when I was 29 and turning 30 and going, ‘Oh my God, no, no!’ But don’t dread getting older, it’s empowering.
“I’m better now than I’ve ever been and I’m proud of it, and I want other women to be. If a 50-year-old wants to put on an underwired push-up bra and get those boobs up to her chin – you know what? – I got it for you and let’s do it.”
California-born Caprice, who lives in London with her British financier husband Ty Comfort, 57, and their sons Jax and Jett, 10, tells us she watches the celebrity fashion market closely and as many others have fallen by the wayside, she’s still standing.
“To me, it’s like a roller coaster,” she says. “You go up and down and up and down. I’m on an up now. In this crazy world of celebrity, all of them come and go, I’ve been around for 5,000 years.”
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