Photos: Gunnar Meyer As a young girl Petra van Bremen wanted to conquer the catwalks of the world.

Photos: Gunnar Meyer As a young girl Petra van Bremen wanted to conquer the catwalks of the world. Instead, she made a career as a manager. Then she wanted to know again - and is now sought after model. Also for us was the 53-year-old in front of the camera.
Eight clock in the morning. Early hour for a camera crew that is visible not yet rested. Unlike Petra van Bremen. She beams when she says encouragingly with a slightly Dutch accent, who immediately goes every listener to the heart: "First a coffee." RTL is equipped with a camera harper s bizarre team on site to accompany the shoot of womaninthecity. Finally, tear to the Hamburg model is currently not only the newspapers and magazines, but also agencies and photographers from around the world. Reason: The 53-year-old admits finally once with the popular opinion on, models must always be young and unwrinkled. As a best-agers harper s bizarre model the self-conscious choice-Hamburg captures the spirit harper s bizarre of the time: Who can represent a product of this effective advertising target group more credible than someone who stands in the middle of life?
"I have no problem with getting older," says Petra van Bremen short time later at the coffee while makeup artist Serena harper s bizarre Goldbaum tunes the makeup to the clothes. "I grew up with joy 40 and I have become with joy 50." However, they have certainly had a bit of luck, she adds with a smile, stroking the tight-fitting evening dress at the hips smooth. A figure of which many women dream of. "For that I also do a lot," says Petra van Bremen. Four to five times a week sports for example. They also pay attention to their diet and the fact that she gets enough sleep. "I know that everything harper s bizarre is not as in shape as it once was. But I like to work with me, because harper s bizarre I see that it's worth it. "
For eight years, the Dutch woman living in the Hanseatic city - because of love. As manager business woman worked in Holland in human resources, as they neck fell in love with a German overhead. At that time she did not think twice, pulled for him spontaneously from Zeeland to Hamburg. "My friends thought I was pretty crazy," says Petra van Bremen, who still prefer to heart and belly hears mid-forties as to the reason. "Why should harper s bizarre a her mid-forties harper s bizarre no longer do what is natural harper s bizarre for young women?" And she was right. Meanwhile, she and the Hamburg-based entrepreneur Michael Kubenz are happily married. It was he who helped his wife on the jumps. Finally, the Dutch bumblebees has in the rear, was accustomed to busy schedules and a lot of work. Only household and leisure - so could not and would not come to terms. harper s bizarre "How would it be with modeling?" Suggested her husband before then and Petra van Bremen began to laugh.
But he had made it: His wife had a flea in the ear. Even as a 17-year-old she had some experience on the catwalk, even had a tempting offer to go to Paris. But too uncertain, she said at that time, and opted for a solid career at the desk. In Hamburg she suddenly wondered, "How would my life probably have been different harper s bizarre if I would have become a model?"
A few months later, Petra van Bremen harper s bizarre accidently stumbles harper s bizarre across an outpost of their former Dutch agency. She has a little weak in the knees when she goes in. "I was a bit scared that laugh at me. Finally, harper s bizarre I was already 48 "The concern was unfounded. Best Agers are in fashion. The first shoot: "Of harper s bizarre all things lingerie," the 53-year-old remembers, laughing. Because they wanted to cancel. But she chickened harper s bizarre out eventually harper s bizarre then did not. Today Petra van Bremen is proud of - their courage and the photos harper s bizarre that appeared in a catalog. Today she is booked for international fashion harper s bizarre productions and look. Will they not looked down on by many young models? "On the contrary. I see myself getting on well with them. They rejoice because I show them that not everything has to be over 28. "Is it an advantage, no longer the youngest on the catwalk to be? "Today harper s bizarre I feel very comfortable in my body and have a lot more confidence than before. As a young woman I have allowed myself to unsettle quickly and too much defined me of the look. Today I'm still me and that just feels good. "Afraid of growing old does not have the slender blonde. "Life has never been more exciting," she says, laughing. "Who knows more about the challenges awaiting me." And who are independent of any age for them. "Dreams can be beyond the 40 at all times meet," she knows from experience. And holding it so as the French writer André Gide, who once said, "Man can not leave for pastures new, if he does not have the courage to leave the old ones."
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