Paulina Porizkova paid a heartfelt tribute to her late husband Ric Ocasek on his 78th birthday, saying he is “forever loved”.
The 56-year-old supermodel celebrated the occasion on Instagram Wednesday by sharing a photo of herself with The Cars frontman and their sons Jonathan and Oliver on their last family vacation together.
“You will always be missed. Forever engraved in our hearts. Today you would be 78, but say that you are “again” 39. We will congratulate you today. You are forever loved, ”she signed the picture.
Paulina Porizkova, 56, paid tribute to her late husband Ric Ocasek, who would have turned 78 on Wednesday, by sharing a photo of their last family vacation.
The model wrote that The Cars frontman will be “forever missed” and “always loved”, promising to celebrate today.
Porizkova concluded her post with the hashtags #ricocasek, #lastvacation, #happybirthday and #trueloveneverdies.
The writer, who is currently working on a book of essays, spoke candidly about her grief and anger after Ocasek died unexpectedly of a cardiovascular disease while recovering at home from surgery on September 15, 2019.
Porizkova was the third of his three wives, and they were estranged and divorced when she found him dead in their Manhattan townhouse. They were married for 30 years.
She was only 19 when she met the rocker on the set of the music video for the band’s hit “Drive” in 1984. They married five years later when she was 24 and he was 45.
During her recent appearance on the Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet podcast, she said she never stopped loving Ocasek and “couldn’t imagine life without him” even when they quietly broke up in 2017.
Porizkova and Ocasek (pictured in 2018) were separated and going through a divorce when she found him dead in her Manhattan townhouse on September 15, 2019, aged 75.
Porizkova was only 19 when she met Ocasek on the set of the music video for The Cars’ hit “Drive” in 1984. They married five years later when she was 24 and he was 45.
Porizkova (pictured in 1990) was the third of Ocasek’s three wives. They have been married for 30 years
“I kept saying, ‘Look, you know I want to be with you. I want to be able to help you when you need help. Let’s take apartments nearby so that the children don’t have to choose.” . Let’s continue to have family holidays, family Christmas, family Easter. Let’s just keep sharing everything,” she recalls.
Porizkova explained that she only broke up with Ocasek because she couldn’t “come to terms with feeling alone and unwanted as a woman”, saying it made her “too sad”.
I thought he was on board. I really thought he was on board. I’m a little naive about that because I thought he wanted the same thing.”
The day after his death, she learned that just weeks before, he had cut her out of his will, claiming that she had “dumped” him. He left her with no money to live on, including her own earnings.
Ocasek’s eldest sons from his first marriage to Constance Campbell, Chris and Adam Otkask (they use the original spelling of the surname), were also not included in his will.
During her appearance on the Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet podcast, she said she never stopped loving Ocasek (pictured in 2003) and “couldn’t imagine life without him.”
Porizkova (pictured in 2003) explained that she only broke up with Ocasek because she couldn’t “come to terms with feeling alone and unwanted as a woman”, saying it made her “too sad”.
The mom-of-two noted that Ocasek was a good father to their sons Jonathan, 28, and Oliver, 23, unlike other children from two previous marriages.
“I thought he was a really good person, complex but a good person. I thought more than anything that he loved me too,” she told de Cadenet. “Despite the fact that he no longer wanted to be a husband, I still thought that he loved me the same way that I loved him. And I think I could be wrong here.
Porizkova indicated that they were going through a divorce at the time, and while she did not expect him to leave her everything, she thought she would receive at least half of his estate.
“The fact that he wanted me to get nothing was shocking. [and] heartbreaking,” she said, adding, “It just completely blew my world and everything I knew.
“This is a betrayal. This is a betrayal of my trust, my love, and everything that I have invested in him for years and years and years. And I don’t know what prompted him to do it.
Ocasek changed his will three weeks before his death, and Porizkova believes it was his lawyers who influenced him. She likes to think that “he would fix everything if he stayed alive.”
The writer, who is currently working on a book of essays, was candid about her grief and anger after Ocasek’s death.
Ocasek cut her out of his will and left her with no money, including her own earnings, claiming she had “dumped” him. She later paid off his property for one-third of his assets.
Porizkova’s first public relationship since Ocasek’s death was with writer-director Aaron Sorkin, with whom she attended the Oscars last spring.
She later revealed that she had reached an agreement with her late husband’s estate, stating that she should receive what was due to her under New York State law, which was one-third of Ocasek’s assets.
“I hope it wasn’t really his choice,” she said of the will. “I hope he went and did it without really intending to hurt me, but I don’t know.”
Porizkova’s first public relationship since Ocasek’s death was with writer-director Aaron Sorkin, with whom she attended the Oscars last spring. Later it turned out that this walk was their second date.
She announced their split on Instagram in July after about three months of being together, and she has since rejoined dating app Hinge.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star has been open about the difficulties of finding love for a woman her age.
The day before Porizkova paid tribute to her late husband, she shared a photo of herself with soccer player Ray Lewis on their new CBS survival series Beyond.
Porizkova explained in the caption that the man she was talking to on the dating app called her and her co-stars “narcissistic celebrities” after she revealed how difficult filming was.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star said the boyfriend also accused her of secretly living in air-conditioned trailers when she wasn’t filming.
“Relationships at the age of fifty, even if you are considered attractive, are very different from dating at a younger age,” she wrote in an Instagram post in August. “Firstly, the pool of available people has now turned into a puddle.
“Those who are my age and have been single for a long time, lonely for very good reasons,” she said. ‘And the guy[s] I am looking for women ten to twenty years younger than my age.
“Do you know what is the most searched dating app by age?[s] 50 for a man – and 18 for a woman?!”
In a recent post posted on Tuesday, she revealed that a guy she was “flirting with” called her a “narcissistic celebrity” after she told him filming her new survival show Beyond was ” the most physically difficult. thing she ever did.
Porizkova, who has been open about her struggle for love in her fifties, noted that “the guy never had a date in real life.”
She and her co-stars spent two weeks of filming in the jungles of Panama where they had to face harsh conditions by entering competitions to earn money for their assigned charities.
As part of her post, she shared a photo of herself talking to Ray Lewis and footage of her shivering in the pouring rain on her first night in the jungle.
“Chat with Ray @raylewis. He looks so intimidating but make him talk about his family and he is a marshmallow,” she wrote. “Maybe I’m telling him about this guy I met on an app and flirted on the phone.
“Everything was going well until I mentioned that I was in the jungle – filming survivors like a reality TV show – and that it was the most physically demanding thing I’ve ever done,” she explained. ‘The guy laughed. “O, sure. Narcissistic celebrities in the jungle run to their air-conditioned trailers the moment the cameras are off.”
“I have heard this comment now in several different versions,” she added. “What they have in common is that we all get fired like a bunch of daffodils, and it’s easy for us offscreen.”
Porizkova, who plays for the ACLU Foundation, urged her followers to tune in for Wednesday’s release “and judge for yourself.”
She also urged them to watch the nighttime footage she posted of her and her co-stars in the jungle during a thunderstorm. Reflecting on that night in her caption, she insisted that it was “easily the physically worst night of my life.”
“Oh yeah, and the guy has never had a date in real life,” she added.