Paulina Porizkova Gets Candid About New Love and Past Grief

Model Paulina Porizkova is opening up on past grief and new love, as she is several months into her new relationship with "Will & Grace" showrunner Jeff Greenstein.

Although the author of "No Filter: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful" is happier than ever in her new relationship, she took a moment to remind followers that it is normal to still experience pain and grief from the past.

On Tuesday afternoon, the “Anna” actress shared a selfie on Instagram that featured her looking pensive as she rode a crowded train through the city. “Does new Iove make past grief dissipate or disappear?

One of you asked this great question. I didn’t have to ponder it, I already had my answer,” she wrote in the caption.

“A few weeks back, I was doing a book appearance in Chicago and so spent one night at the Peninsula Hotel. I walked in, my mind on the event, and boom. The lobby in which I found myself I had last been in with my husband. And my two sons,” she revealed, referring to her previous marriage to the late Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. “It’s where we took our last family Christmas photo. It was a gut punch. I stumbled to the elevator and once the door closed, burst out in tears.”

“Fresh grief is broken sharp shards in an empty bucket. Time is the water that fills the bucket so the shards are gradually hidden. But ever so often, if the bucket is jostled, the shards are revealed. They never dissipate or disappear. They are only obscured with the waters of time,” she continued. “Love makes the bucket larger. It can carry more.”

“Yes, I’m happy now. New love gives me hope. It allows me to look at things with wonder and awe again. It has expanded my bucket to hold more memories, so the sharp shards of grief are mixed with soft pretty bubbles,” she added. “But only time can cover the pain.”

A few days ago, Paulina seemed as happy as could be as she snapped a selfie with her new love in front of the Wall of Love and shared it on Instagram. “This wall behind us in Montmartre is called Wall of Love,” she wrote in the caption. “It says I LOVE YOU in every language.”

“You two look like you missed each other by seconds decades ago. And, otherwise would’ve spent so many years as partners. Except life is so happenstance. I lost my partner/husband of 27 years 11 months ago, and I’ve been really struggling this week….amongst many other days. Thank you,” one fan commented.

“That’s remarkable that you say that- we’ve been talking about that precise thing. But more importantly - I’m so so sorry for your loss,” Paulina replied. “How generous of you to post such a lovely comment when you’re in pain. Sending you love won’t do much good, I know, but know that you’re a special person and I really appreciate you.”

In yet another Instagram post, the 58-year-old model explained how she finally got “lucky” in love. “I’ve often described the middle-aged dating pool as a muddy puddle. So did it change? Nope. It’s definitely a dirty little puddle. So, how did I get lucky? It’s all in the numbers!” she wrote in the caption.

“My single girlfriends told me this a while back when I just started to splash around in it. ‘You just set date after date, don’t invest much in the first date- and go through as many as you have the time for.’ This is what I did. I’ve been on about forty or so dates in the last three years,” she revealed. “It turns out that it IS in fact in the numbers.”

“By the time you’re a well-seasoned age, the dating pool consists of mostly divorcées, those permanently not-really-available, and a few widows and widowers,” she wrote. “People with no relationship issues are happily married or in long term relationships!”

“What’s on the market are mostly the wares that are either being returned, or return of their own volition, because they are convinced there are superior takers who just haven’t showed up yet. So, this dating pool is in fact a puddle of seventy percent of people who have serious commitment issues. Although I didn’t have ‘commitment issues’, I certainly had relationship issues."

"One of those was falling for those with commitment issues,” she admitted. “This part I had to relearn.”

“Three years of intense self-work and kissing a lot of lovely frogs. And that’s how I found my prince,” she concluded, capping off her post with hashtags like #dating, #thedatingpuddle, and #betweenjloandbettywhite.