Candice Bergen has made rare comments about when she worked as a model in her teens and twenties.
During an episode of The Run-Through with Vogue podcast, co-hosted by her daughter and Vogue’s head of editorial content Chloe Malle, the 80-year-old said modeling was just not for her.
‘I remember modeling when I was 15 or 16,’ shared Bergen who made the cover of Vogue and Mademoiselle magazines.
Turns out, modeling was in her blood as her mother, Frances Bergen – née Westerman – had been a Powers model known professionally as Frances Westcott.
But that was not enough to drive her ambition on the catwalk.
‘I started to earn my own money and putting on what seemed like grownup clothes, women’s suits and stockings and thinking, “Oh, what a lot of trouble,”‘ she added.
Candice Bergen has made rare comments about when she worked as a model in her teens and twenties. Seen in 1967
She wore yellow on the cover of Vogue in 1967; her daughter is now the top editor at Vogue
Her first Vogue cover was in 1967.
The Beverly Hills native was also the face of Chanel No 5 perfume in the 1960s.
The Murphy Brown actress said being a mannequin ‘was interesting the first few times and then it faded.’
She then moved on to acting and won her first role in the 1966 film The Group.
Bergen recently opened up about Malle’s appointment as Anna Wintour’s successor at Vogue.
Wintour, who was editor-in-chief of American Vogue for 37 years, named Malle as her successor in September 2025.
Bergen said during AARP’s Movies for Grownups that her daughter’s new role ‘is no small thing.’
During an episode of The Run-Through with Vogue podcast, co-hosted by her daughter and Vogue’s head of editorial content Chloe Malle, the 80-year-old said modeling was not for her
‘I remember modeling when I was 15 or 16,’ shared Bergen who made the cover of Mademoiselle. ‘I started to earn my own money and putting on what seemed like grownup clothes, women’s suits and stockings and thinking, “Oh, what a lot of trouble,”‘ she added
The Murphy Brown actress said being a mannequin ‘was interesting the first few times and then it faded’; seen in 1968
Seen in the 1960s with very differing hairstyles
Bergen in 1968 films scenes in Italy for the movie The Adventurers
Seen with her Vogue editor daughter Chloe Malle at Diane von Furstenberg’s spring 2010 runway show in NYC
‘She’s been at Vogue for 14 years, so she didn’t just talk her way into it,’ the actress continued. ‘She worked up to it.’
And the thespian said she is happy Malle, 40, is a mother to two children.
‘I think she’s wonderful with her kids, and she’s very lucky because she chose a great husband [Graham Albert], who is a fantastic father.’
Malle, whose father is the late French film director Louis Malle, began working at Vogue in 2011.
At first she was a social editor then a contributing editor and next the editor for Vogue.com.
Bergen played Enid Frick, the fictional editor-in-chief of Vogue, on Sex and the City and in the sequel …And Just Like That.
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