01-30-22, 12:22 PM | |
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Honestly one of the best recommendations my DH's physician gave him a few years ago was to read Younger Next Year by Henry Lodge & Chris Crowley. It makes the point that while you're going to age - your hair will turn gray, things will sag, and your skin will become thinner and crepey as you age - you don't have to decay. Staying active and exercising helps with that.
Kathleen Turner has Rheumatoid arthritis and that has affected her appearance. She was diagnosed in her late 30s. |
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01-30-22, 01:29 PM | |
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I don't keep us with celebrities so how they age doesn't interest me. But in reading the article, I am struck by the assumption that aging "appropriately" means gaining an enormous amount of weight. Considering the health implications of significant weight gain, I don't think that is a good message along the lines of "accept that you have wrinkles" or "be OK with not looking like you are 20 years old anymore."
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01-30-22, 03:47 PM | |
Join Date: Sep 2002
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gaining weight as you grow older can be a condition of taking a lot of medications. My friend now wears a size 2x and was a size small her entire life. She has MS and has a lot of trouble walking. So it is often not a conscious -oh the heck with it I am old so I will just not care-.
This has also happened to me and I have been judged really cruelly for being overweight. I had a complete thyroidectomy and have debilitating arthritis so try that on for size . hard. also a size small all my life before the surgery and the arthritis started raging. Your body shape does change with are as well. I remember watching the old Firm vhs! that addresses this. |
01-30-22, 04:01 PM | ||
Join Date: Nov 2001
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01-30-22, 04:20 PM | |
Join Date: Jun 2009
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I agree that the article is double-edged, though I lean toward the side that it is mostly mean when these rags publish stories with unflattering pictures of people especially if they clearly no longer want to have their pictures published and have stayed out of the public eye, like Bridget Fonda and Kelly MacGillis.
These people at some point had plenty of money and access to the best anti-aging tips, products, and procedures, yet life happens to them just as it does to all of us. And not everyone is interested in all of that. Or in continued fame. Kathleen Turner has been open about her autoimmune medical conditions that caused her to need years of steroids and limited activity, which resulted in weight gain. She had a part in a Netflix show in the last couple years, and is as awesome as she ever was. You never know what a person has been through. And even if they haven’t been through something like that, it is their life, they don’t need to maintain a certain look if they don’t want to. Jamie Lee Curtis has had a lot of work done, actually, but it was when she was younger. Eventually she came out and said she regretted it and was stopping. I want to be as healthy as possible as I age, so I do my best to maintain a healthy weight and strong bones. Yes there is still some vanity there, less the older I get, but if it is motivating vanity and not the beat-yourself-up kind, then I don’t see the problem. It’s human nature. I don’t plan to ever get Botox, filler, or any cosmetic procedures, but if doing so is part of a healthy outlook and helps someone feel good, then more power to them. |
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