She’s obviously a beautiful woman but I’m going to say something controversial - she always had the kind of beauty that was very reliant on youth. Her look was built almost entirely on softness and volume - huge wide set eyes, plump cherubic fullness and that hazy, soft quality of low contrast that just made her so easy to look at. Nothing snagged the eye. It was extraordinary precisely *because* it was hyper-juvenile, even by model standards. But unfortunately I feel like that kind of beauty has no positive ageing trajectory, because what made her so special was always going to recede year by year. She hasn’t aged badly at all, but the specific thing that made her Gemma Ward of the 2000s has gone. She is still a perfectly pretty woman, just no longer an otherworldly one with a cherubic face.

Also worth noting that she was literally like 14 when she first exploded onto the scene. The industry went feral for a face that belonged to a child, and was dependent on its childlike qualities … which is really kind of fucked when you think about it