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Whatever happened to aging gracefully?

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I’m 59 years old and most definitely not as toned and tight as I once was. My hair is greying, my knee is shot… I have bunions FFS! But aging is a part of life and reflects who I am now, not the silly 20 year old I see in pictures and hardly recognize.

Much as I’d love to hook up a Hoover to my thighs and suction off a few doughnuts, I won’t. I also won’t be nipping and tucking anything on my face like these ladies… who in my opinion would’ve been better off with a few wrinkles.

Remember Melanie Griffith?

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Working Girl? Milk Money?

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Damn!

Remember perky little Meg Ryan? America’s sweetheart from When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail?

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What’s with the lips? Why do they think bigger will make them look younger.

And then there’s Renee Zellwegger from Bridget Jones Diary.

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She doesn’t even look like the same person and yet she swears she hasn’t had any work done. Her reason for the transformation? She’s happy.

Well so am, I but I still look like myself.

And finally there’s Madonna, to whom I can only say…

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WTF?

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This is truly frightening.

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49 thoughts on “Whatever happened to aging gracefully?”

  2. Oh the horror……of Madonna’s supposed new face. Seriously she use to be pretty, beautiful some might say. But at 64 why the hell would you want to look younger than your spoiled, entitled 26 year old daughter?!? All of these women you mentioned have over done their “fillers” and that’s why they look bloated not young (Goldie Hawn and Gwen Stefani are two other very bad plastic surgery outcomes.) I’m with you, growing old gracefully is something these women don’t know how to do. However, I’m still on the fence about going grey. And even if I am, I can still change my mind about that decision unlike these plastic filled women who can’t go back to what they once were. I admire actresses like Helen Mirren, Jaime Lee Curtis and Juliane Moore because they’ve foregone going under the knife. Sorry but Madonna’s face is like a train wreck, you want to look away but you just can’t it’s that bad…..eeww.

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    1. I’ve earned my grey hairs and will display them proudly. Every time I see a woman near 60 trying to look 20 it makes me sad. Embrace every glorious year, in the long run character outlives beauty.
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  4. Madonna (in my opinion) has always been mental problems – the other ladies, well, I’m sure they were under a great deal of pressure not to end up on the list of “celebrities who didn’t age well.”

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  5. I am 2 years older and still going strong, mostly except for the right hip. I get tired more easily but am proud of my work ethic, my body still strong, and the experience I have. It is sad when Hollywood keeps trying to hunt down former celebrities and post how they look. Just leave them be if they don’t want to be photographed. And we are mostly tired of hearing about JLo and Ben Affleck.

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  8. I think there is something very fetching in an older woman who doesn’t try to keep up with fashion in clothes and makeup. Plastic surgery fools few, but I am thinking of two exceptions. Raquel Welsh and Sophia Loren …

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  10. Unfortunately the industries these women are in do not allow women to age at all, let alone gracefully. They are under tremendous pressure to do whatever it takes, for the sake of their (dwindling) careers. Our society views women as disposable/invisible once they reach a certain age, and this is accelerated in film/music industries. Men are the only ones allowed to age gracefully, it seems.

    Deb

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  13. So these nip and tuck freaks will die, just like you and me, but with no aging lines. I guess they are saving a ton of work for the mortician, except that when they start to embalm they have to announce “fire in the hole” as a warning that the pressure released can be harmful.

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  16. Deeescusting….Although yeah. Perhsps with Rene she lost weight and changed her make up routine…everyone else looks like a nightmare

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  17. Pure good luck, but with my indigenous blood I will still be looking decent when they roll me into the crematorium. At 73 I can pass for 50 if I shave off my facial hair (which I won’t) or use Grecian Formula. Unfortubately, the rest of my body could use some help, but won’t get it.

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  19. Oh my God! I knew that Meg Ryan had ruined her adorable face with Botox (I’m guessing), but not the others. Not to be unkind, but they look like freaks. Madonna looks like an alien. Too bad they just couldn’t go with the ageing flow like us cool chicks.

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      1. Judi Dench hasn’t fallen for those tricks – how could she have played across from Dustin Hoffman in Esio Trot if she had work done? Hollywood’s glamour competition has a lot to answer for – it’s contagious – fake eyelashes, botox – it’s not just for the freaks in the public eye.

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  20. Sigourney Weaver maintained her good looks well into her old age. She never looked like she was panicking over losing her looks. I guess after you’ve face aliens four times, one of those times they kill you, it puts everything else into perspective…

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