Paulina Porizkova is now 55 and is a good example that age is only a number

The Czech-born model took to Instagram on Thursday to commemorate her first birthday since the death of her estranged husband Ric Ocasek in September 2019 and shared a stunning throwback picture of herself in a bikini from a recent trip to South America.

“Less than two months ago, the world was still a familiar place. And I was basking in its best incarnation, here in Costa Rica,” she began in the caption of the golden hour photo of herself among nature donning a flashy gold bikini.

Porizkova said she is “endlessly grateful” for the outpouring of “gifts life has bestowed on me thus far” and while there have “been many,” she said she’s looking forward to sifting “through them all” while under coronavirus quarantine.

The author and actress, who was cut out of her estranged husband Ric Ocasek's will before his death, previously hinted on social media that the trip may have been a gift from close friends.

“Imagine, after going through an emotional hell -- to land here,” she wrote. “Being surrounded by saltwater the temperature of your mother womb, the sounds of monkeys chattering in trees, the scent of damp green leaves and night blooming jasmine, sipping a Negroni while the sun sets over the ocean on the horizon.

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