The Modeling World's Latest Sensation? She's 90.
Bea Slater was born on May 21, 1927—the day that Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis in Paris to become the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. “My mother always told me how she was on the delivery table and the doctors were so excited. They were all talking about Lindbergh, not the fact that she was having a baby,” Slater laughed. Looking back on the past 90 years, the day of her birth is something of a symbol of the way she’s lived her life. Now into her tenth decade, her favorite phrase, “You never know” has taken her somewhere she never expected—a massive billboard above Junior’s Cheesecake in Brooklyn. Slater is featured in Jdate’s new “Powered by Yentas” advertising campaign.
“I think you just have to say to yourself, ‘I’m not just going to sit on a chair.’ It’s not that I do a lot of things, but I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’ve been a widow for nine years, and I had a wonderful, wonderful husband. We did a lot of things, and I felt that I’d done plenty,” she said. Little did she know how much more there was to come.
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