Silver siren: meet the 60-something star of Stella magazine's ageing beautifully shoot Sarah Wiley was talent spotted at the age of 57. Now, aged 66, her modelling career is blooming High cheekbones, glossy hair, long limbs and glowing skin; Sarah Wiley sounds every inch the typical model. But Sarah, who stars in our shoot , is 66 years old. And she was scouted at the less-than-tender age of 57. It was when a professional photographer saw a family snap of Wiley - now known in the trade as Sarah W - with her grandchildren that a whole new career beckoned. The photographer called her up to ask her if she'd model on a lifestyle shoot. "I thought it was a wind-up," she giggles, "but I was assured that it wasn't. I had a great time, and I was packing up, thinking, well, that was a wonderful experience, when he said, "Do you realise you're quite good at this?"' WATCH: Styling tips for mature hair Today, Wiley is represented by Close Management modelling agency. She has a regular spot modelling on GMTV, has appeared on Gok Wan's How to Look Good Naked and in advertising campaigns for the likes of John Lewis. She is, at an unexpected stage in her life, a bona fide model. Exceptionally modest and still surprised by her late-blossoming career, she believes that beauty doesn't come from any particular regime but is a reflection of something far more fundamental. "It's the interest in someone's face that makes them arresting,' she says, "Being alive, being interested in the world around you." She waves aside suggestions that she is in anyway special (of older models, she wisecracks that there is a "whole gang of us roaming around"), but says a more diverse portrait of beauty needs to be projected to women. "I have a granddaughter who's ten," she says. It's so sad that when she looks in magazines and thinks [to be seen as a successful woman] she must be very thin. In terms of keeping in shape, she does nothing more than occasionally "wander along to the gym" but her easy grace she attributes to her former training as a ballet dancer. Although at 5 foot 8 inches she was too tall to make it professionally, she believes the hard work is paying off now. Ballet makes you aware of how your body moves - and what you look like from behind. The greatest change for Wiley in becoming a model in her later years has been psychological. "It's made me more confident," she says. And part of getting older is that you care less about making a fool of yourself. My generation doesn't want to just lie down. We're all still jumping up and down.