There was only one magazine that Australia's original supermodel, Maggie Tabberer, would consider doing a cover shoot for at the age of 78 - the same magazine of which she was the face for 15 years, The Australian Women's Weekly. 
On newsstands across the country on Thursday, the latest edition of The Weekly involved months of cajoling on the part of its editors to convince the glamorous septuagenarian to step in front of the lens once again.
"And I can tell you one thing for certain. Eighty most definitely feels like the new 80," the icon of Australian fashion jokes to the magazine.
But aging is something she has clearly given considerable thought.
"No, but seriously - women's attitudes to getting older have changed enormously," she says. "Women have got in their head now that they are not going to age before their time. They don't want to wear grandma cardigans, they don't want to wear grandma cosmetics - the whole pink lippy and the blue eyeshadow.
"All that has shifted, thankfully, and they can be anything they want to be. And that's a wonderful freedom."
It is the first shoot Tabberer has done in a decade and the former model declares it will be her last, agreeing to it only "because it's The Weekly, and I have a deep affection for the magazine ... This is the last shoot I will ever do."
Throughout the accompanying interview Tabberer talks about her often scrutinised life, admitting she was never "very good" at relationships.
"You know all those clever girls who go out and get a handsome, quiet, gentle, loving man? I was never one of those."
But something good did come of her first marriage: two daughters, Brooke and Amanda, who she describes as her "greatest achievements".
Having famously appeared in television commercials for The Weekly for more than 15 years, Tabberer's drawing out of "retirement" was a long held ambition of editor Helen McCabe.
"Maggie T is an icon in this country," McCabe says. "There are few names more synonymous with The Australian Women's Weekly, and there are few women who are as stylish and classy as Maggie Tabberer.
"It's long been an ambition of mine to talk Maggie out of retirement and into a photo studio to celebrate how gracefully she has aged. The results speak for themselves."