Multidisciplinary creative MarryAnn Elizabeth is on a mission to empower women to know their worth at every age. “To redefine aging we must also to redefine beauty!”
First scouted by Eileen Ford of the renowned Ford Modeling Agency and offered an exclusive contract at age 14. MaryAnn instead went on to pursue her passion in the visual arts, earning a BFA in Graphic Design and an MFA, Masters of Fine Arts from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her experiences as a professional artist have been multi-faceted, from graphic designer to studio artist with gallery representation, as well as college professor within the Arts & Humanities. However, three decades after being discovered MaryAnn could not ignore what she saw as a lack of age diversity within the fashion & beauty industry: “Women are powerful earners; we want to see our peers representing what we are buying!” In 2015 at the uncommon age of 47, she made a decision which brought her full circle and began the modeling career she was forced to walk away from at age fourteen!
Fast forward to 2022, MaryAnn has appeared in major publications such as: The New York Times, O’ The Oprah Magazine, Numero Russia Magazine, Refinery29, Marie Claire and Ageist Magazine to name a few. She has presented for top designers in NYFW, as well as being featured as the face of global beauty campaigns for major brands such as: Clarins Paris, Estee Lauder, Oribe and AVEDA, as well as the pivotal Victoria's Secret: Love Cloud Campaign. “I could not have imagined in my 20s that in my 50s, I would be featured in a Victoria's Secret campaign representing my peer group — women now adorned with crowns of silver hair, laugh lines and beautiful bodies baring all the travel marks of our decades”
MaryAnn Elizabeth credits a yogic lifestyle as her most effective tool for “powerful aging” she has a dedicated daily Hatha and Kundalini Yoga & meditation practice (recently earning her 200 HR YTT, this Fall she will continue on to begin a