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When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

Carine Roitfeld

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Carine Roitfeld
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 19
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.
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