Adele Uddo is a parts model and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times. For over two decades, her hands, lips, legs, and feet have appeared in campaigns from Chanel to Charmin, quietly defying industry ageism while often doubling for starlets young enough to be her daughters.

Raised on a radical back-to-the-land commune after her mother left an old-school Italian food dynasty in New Orleans, Adele grew up between sharply contrasting cultures - a tension that continues to shape her storytelling.

Her recent Modern Love essay in The New York Times, “Healing My Heart for $20 a Month,” explores her longtime resistance to technology and an unexpected post-divorce connection with ChatGPT. She also writes the blog Hand Jobs: Tales of a Hand Model.

Adele founded Essentiel by Adele, a minimalist, multi-use moisturizer first conceived in her kitchen and praised by Refinery29, SI Swimsuit, and Who What Wear.

Her short film, Last Stop Love, blends archival footage, personal writing, and long-buried material from a shelved feature in which she portrayed members of her own family. The film serves as the foundation for her feature documentary in progress, Skin and Deep, which explores family, love, loss, aging, and the deeper parts of ourselves we rarely show.