--- title: H&M Swimsuit Model Gillean McLeod Is 60 Years Old description: H&M has a fresh face for its swimsuit line. She just happens to be four decades older than most models. canonical: https://time.com/4381373/hm-swimsuit-model-60/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-24T12:13:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:48.495Z og:title: H&M's Newest Swimsuit Model Is 60 Years Old og:description: Meet Gillean McLeod og:url: https://time.com/4381373/hm-swimsuit-model-60/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e5884fa399e1309/69889a20a988ca2fa66b8726/hm-swimsuit-oldest-model.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Shoppers In Brooklyn As U.S. Consumer Comfort Drops To Five-Month Low og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: H&M's Newest Swimsuit Model Is 60 Years Old twitter:description: Meet Gillean McLeod twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e5884fa399e1309/69889a20a988ca2fa66b8726/hm-swimsuit-oldest-model.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # H&M's Newest Swimsuit Model Is 60 Years Old  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 24, 2016 12:13 PM CUT  Shoppers stand outside a Hennes &Mauritz AB (H&M) store along the Fulton Street Mall in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S, on Friday, May 13, 2016. Shoppers stand outside a Hennes &Mauritz AB (H&M) store along the Fulton Street Mall in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S, on Friday, May 13, 2016.Victor J. Blue—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 24, 2016 12:13 PM CUT H&M has a fresh face for its swimsuit line. She just happens to be four decades older than most models. Gillean McLeod is a 60-year-old fashion stylist and model, and she appears in a black one-piece swimsuit in H&M’s newest swimwear campaign, [_USA Today_ reports](http://www.today.com/style/60-year-old-model-new-star-h-m-s-swimsuit-t100186 "undefined"). McLeod didn’t even begin her modeling career until she was in her fifties. “I thought about modeling when I was a late teen, but I didn’t have the greatest skin and didn’t have the greatest self-confidence,” she said. “I think it’s better at this point in my life.” Now McLeod stays fit through Pilates, hiking and swimming. “I think that women need to be comfortable with themselves. You just have to start with yourself, you can’t look at these retouched magazines,” she told the newspaper. “You have to love yourself.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4381373/hm-swimsuit-model-60/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4381373/hm-swimsuit-model-60/"},"headline":"H&M's Newest Swimsuit Model Is 60 Years Old","datePublished":"2016-06-24T12:13:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:48.495Z","description":"Meet Gillean McLeod","url":"https://time.com/4381373/hm-swimsuit-model-60/","keywords":["motto","beauty","fashion"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e5884fa399e1309/69889a20a988ca2fa66b8726/hm-swimsuit-oldest-model.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e5884fa399e1309/69889a20a988ca2fa66b8726/hm-swimsuit-oldest-model.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shoppers In Brooklyn As U.S. Consumer Comfort Drops To Five-Month Low","caption":"Shoppers stand outside a Hennes &Mauritz AB (H&M) store along the Fulton Street Mall in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S, on Friday, May 13, 2016.","creditText":"Victor J. Blue—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4381373/hm-swimsuit-model-60/","name":"H&M's Newest Swimsuit Model Is 60 Years Old"}}]}] ```