Four Matches in Five Years: How Paulina Porizkova Found Love on Raya

When Paulina Porizkova looked back at her five years on Raya, the numbers told a sobering story: just four matches. The 61-year-old model and former supermodel didn’t mince words about why the exclusive dating app had been so quiet. In a recent conversation with Ageist magazine on Wednesday, May 13, she theorized that age discrimination was the culprit—specifically, that men on the platform set strict age parameters that worked against her.

“Guys get to set how old they want the lady to be,”she explained in the interview.“All men think they deserve women who are younger. 55? Nope.”It’s a brutal reality that many women navigating digital dating spaces have encountered: algorithmic matchmaking that bakes in societal biases about desirability and age. But Porizkova also owned her own role in the drought. She’d chosen profile photos that showed her unfiltered—no makeup, candid shots of herself in front of a gigantic poster of herself, even giving herself the finger.“I wanted to show myself as I am. The real me that doesn’t look so great all the time,”she reflected. It was a choice rooted in authenticity rather than strategy, which meant accepting that her honesty might not move the needle on a platform designed around first-glance appeal.

Then came match number four. Jeff Greenstein’s profile was, by Porizkova’s own delightful account, an absolute disaster. He was bald but hairy in all the wrong places. His photos were terrible—she specifically mentioned one where he looked like a circus bear on a tiny bicycle. His bio was equally chaotic:“Introvert pretending I’m an extrovert. I’m ambidextrous.”None of it screamed“catch of the day.”But then she scrolled to the bottom and found a Modern Lovers song. That detail—one signal of good taste in music—was enough to spark curiosity.

When they met in person, Greenstein, 63, came clean immediately. He already knew who she was. He’d seen her poster growing up and knew that her late husband, Ric Ocasek, had been in one of his favorite bands, The Cars. Rather than play coy, he said it straight:“I’m not going to pretend.”That honesty was the real attraction.“Somebody who told me the truth, regardless of what it is. That is the difference between the Paulina now and the Paulina of the past,”she said.“I find that so incredibly attractive. Authenticity. The truth.”

Porizkova and Greenstein announced their engagement in July 2025 after hard-launching their romance via Instagram in 2023. They’re tying the knot in two months, and she’s approaching the milestone with a laid-back ease.“I found a relationship that feels like I should have always had at 58,”she gushed.“The perfect partner for me—unexpectedly. I wouldn’t say he was my type. He’s somebody I might have overlooked in the past.”It’s a reminder that sometimes the least likely match, born from both parties’genuine selves rather than polished profiles, turns out to be exactly what was needed.