Smiling past 50: AARP's Real People Model Search comes to Pittsburgh

Monday, June 05, 2006

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Steve Mellon and Bob Batz Jr.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Gloria Rogers is proud of her appearance and her age -- "74-and-a-half, and no facelifts," she says. So one recent morning, she put on some fashionable clothes and walked to Pittsburgh's Point State Park to participate in a national search for models over the age of 50.

"I'm a ham from way back," she says. Ms. Rogers was the first of several Pittsburgh seniors to take part in the "Faces of 50+ Real People Model Search." At stake was a chance to be chosen to model for future editions of AARP: The Magazine.

Just click Gloria Roger's picture above to see and hear some of those aspiring models tell their own stories, too.

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First published on June 5, 2006 at 12:00 am

Steve Mellon can be contacted at smellon@post-gazette.com. Bob Batz Jr. can be reached at bbatz@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1930.