‘WE DON’T BECOME INVISIBLE – WITH AGE COMES BEAUTY!’
Rachel Peru, 52, lives in Harrogate with her husband Mark, 57.
Standing on a beach in the Bahamas, wearing just a swimsuit, I smiled as the photographer snapped away. At 47, I was fairly new to modelling, but already I was getting booked for big campaigns, including this one with plus-sized model Ashley Graham. But the Bahamas wasn’t the only place I was lucky enough to fly to for work. Over the next few years I jetted to Sweden, Germany and France, reinforcing to me that becoming a model was the best decision I’d ever made.
My first taste of modelling was in 2010 when I worked as a teacher. A friend of mine asked if I’d take
