Supermodel Paulina Porizkova announces 'peaceful' separation from The Cars' Ric Ocasek

Supermodel Paulina Porizkova announced Wednesday that she and husband Ric Ocasek have been "peacefully separated" for the past year.Porizkova, 53, who married The Cars frontman, 74, in 1989, revealed the split in an Instagram post, comparing their family, which includes two sons, to a well-built car that can travel anywhere, but the couple as cyclists who can no longer pedal in unison.

"Our family has always been — and still is — a well-built car. When the four of us are together, we can go wherever the road takes us," she writes. "But as a bicycle, my husband and I no longer pedal in unison. So, we're ditching the bicycle." Despite the marital separation, the family remains strong, says Porizkova, who was born in what was then Czechoslovakia.

"The photos of our happy family are, in fact, happy family photos; we are just no longer a couple," she writes. "The love we have for one another is so wide and deep it's practically intangible, and that sort of love can never disappear. Expect to keep seeing happy family photos."Porizkova says she and her family won't be commenting further on the matter.