After a spell as Isabella Rossellini’s hand model, Elizabeth Barbour went to law school at 54.
Part of that message was: ‘You can go to law school or be a doctor.’ The part I heard was: ‘Go do your own thing.’ I went out and did my own thing and didn’t really think what my career would be.”.
After travelling through South and Central America, Barbour got her first proper job as a hand model with the Ford agency in New York.
At high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Barbour “got involved with some women’s consciousness-raising meetings.
Her mother “always volunteered with people who were disadvantaged”; Barbour would be at her side “some place where people were gathering food”.
