People may know Gloria Vanderbilt -- designer, artist, writer, my mom -- for starting the designer jeans craze and building a fashion empire, but that is really only one chapter in her extraordinary life.
She was born into a world that no longer exists, and has been in the public eye, for better or worse [Vanderbilt was a railroad heiress and the subject of a lengthy custody trial], ever since. She is a survivor but proof to all women that you don't have to harden your heart in order to overcome adversity.
She has lived and loved and lost a lot,
has had her heart broken,
her trust betrayed,
but she's never lost her optimism nor her independence.
At 90 she is still painting, still writing, still reimagining and reinventing herself.
She is proof that true beauty only deepens with age.
Anderson Cooper, journalist
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