Valerie Lustgarten

Meet Valerie

Valerie Lustgarten was born in Alexandria, Virginia, grew up in Venezuela, and came back to the U.S. with her husband and toddler to raise her family in Miami, where her two daughters were born. She is fully bilingual and thinks in both English and Spanish. A former educator, she stumbled into modeling in her 50s with her natural gray hair and, not long after, onto the cover of Oprah Daily's 2025 Beauty Issue. She is a certified yoga teacher who prefers lifting weights to shrinking, and grandmother who still gets butterflies before every casting. She shares all of it, really all of it with women in midlife as @la.random.val on Instagram.