Exclusive Interview with Sunny Griffin: Supermodel and How to Achieve Ageless Beauty Over 50

Christina and Sunny Griffin, 1960’s super­model for Lunch in SF

I had the plea­sure of inter­view­ing Sunny Griffin, super­model who was on the cover of Vogue and a Ford Model.   She is also an age­less beauty at 69!   She trav­els to exotic coun­tries, lives a healthy life in Colorado with her hus­band, is build­ing a win­ter home in Thailand, scuba dives, climbs moun­tains and cre­ated her own skin­care line and Company.   The funny thing is that she is so approach­able and hon­est, not at all what I expected.

We also love to meet women CEOs and founders.  It is so aspi­ra­tional to meet a woman who has beauty, brains and a gen­uine per­son­al­ity.    Sunny is a go get­ter and has had a fab­u­lous life story, even bet­ter than Kim Kardashian’s real­ity show.

Christina:  I am sure you have seen all the fads in cos­met­ics and beauty.  What is time­less and age­less beauty?

Sunny:  Timeless and age­less beauty is being healthy.   Being healthy is what you eat, exer­cise, sleep and being con­scious of what you put on your skin.  The skin is the body’s largest organ.  Personally, she chooses to have a raw diet (which is what many movie/models stars like Carol Alt, Demi Moore, Sting, Alicia Silverstone, Lisa Bonet, Robin Williams, Donna Karan, Woody Harrelson, Angela Bassett to name a few)

Christina:  What is your beauty secret?

Sunny: It is no secret.  For skin, exfo­li­a­tion and deep mois­tur­iza­tion are key to hav­ing younger skin.

Christina:  Why did you cre­ate the Company and the products?

Sunny:  Moisturization and keep­ing my skin hydrated was a prob­lem when I moved to Telluride Colorado.  The air was so dry that I could not sleep through the night.  I met a per­son using raw botan­i­cals to make skin­care.  These raw botan­i­cal ingre­di­ents still have enzymes which are alive and thus, I started Astara skin­care, a line of skin care based on raw botan­i­cals and less chemicals.

Christina: You have trav­eled to so many regions of the world and expe­ri­enced dif­fer­ent cul­tures, why did you pick the US and Arizona to live?

Sunny: Telluride Colorado is one of the most beau­ti­ful places to live and the peo­ple have a  healthy lifestyle and attitude.

Christina: As a fol­low up ques­tion, how does the American woman’s con­cept of beauty com­pare to other nation­al­i­ties around the world?  What makes her unique?

Sunny:  The inter­na­tional con­cept of beauty is sim­i­lar world­wide but America is focused on youth.  I turns 70 next year and at her age she is think­ing about look­ing young.  Heathy is young.  (We think she looks AMAZING and so YOUNG!)

Christina:  What trends do you see for 2010 in beauty?

Sunny:  Spa has gone from lux­ury to neces­sity.  Spas help us reduce stress in our daily lives and peo­ple are becom­ing more aware of dan­ger­ous ingre­di­ents on their bod­ies.  If you can’t eat the ingre­di­ents, why would you not want to put it on your face.  Astara believes in raw botan­ti­cals as the basis of a healthy, good skin­care regime.  This is the trend of the future in skincare.