I'm a young looking person and it's not easy. In my 30s, people would come to my door and ask if my parents were home. My kids coaches assume I'm a big sister and people are very paternalistic like "when you get to be my age...." I hate buying alcohol because of the interaction. People think my husband is a creep and give us weird looks. I transferred to a new office with my long time employer, and one of my employees a few levels down chatted with me and told me I should stay past my internship because I'll have a great career with them. I have ways to look older, and I can see my age. I am as vain as anyone else my age and get botox, etc but I don't think that is what is causing this reaction. I think I just have youthful eyes and body movements and that causes people to read my looks as much younger. |
| I was preparing paperwork for an applicant today who didn't look a day over 18 but was born in 1994 (29 yo). |
| I visited my college town when I was may be 28-29, walked around campus, and then went to a local hangout. I remember catching myself things the students look so much like kids. These were 20-22. I think you are all delusional if you think that at 40 you look anything like a 20 year old. |
She's 70. It's possible.
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Agree with this. I hate it when people use “you look so young!” As a complement to women. Most of the time they don’t and in addition it is ageist. |
This guy ( on the left) looks 20/22 at 36. https://youtu.be/SLUoztH1vMQ |
I went a “commuter” university that had a students ranging widely in age. It was very obvious to me how old certain students were based on both how they dressed & their faces. If you’re not around 20-22 year olds day in and day out if you just will not end up looking like a 20-22 year old. |
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Yes, if you don't have kids and eat healthy.
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| Yes. They’re called black people. |
My sister had a baby at 21 (only BF’ed for about a week). Only went to college for a year. She is 5”0. If you saw her walking around a college campus within a week of giving birth with a backpack & a tee shirt on she would’ve looked indistinguishable from any other college student. |
Agree. Had same experience when revisiting my alma mater one spring weekend last year. I'm 20 years out and these kids looked like babies to me! Heck, I remember being 27 / 28 and really noticing the aging compared to kids still in college, and I was fit and healthy and active. Doesn't matter what race they are. No one is mistaking a 35 year old woman of any race for a 22 year old, outside of perhaps a tiny handful of clear exceptions (usually who also had cosmetic help). And, so what? |
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I am 61 and look way younger. It is not just looks it is lifestyle. I look around 15 years younger. My resume has my first job now at 1998.
I dress cool, my youngest in 16, still so family vacations with kids host got back from spring break with kids. I also have zero medical issues. Perfect teeth ($15k to 20k) over last 15 years to keep up. Don’t wear glasses, had lasik. Am not fat, I am balding but zero gray hair. I also only sleep On average 6 hours a night. I can go from 6 am to midnight 5 days a week. I have nieces and nephews in worst shape. But expensive and need a lot of luck |
Black woman here. I'm 37 and my coworkers thought I was 26/27 at the most. A few years ago,.a recruiter thought that I was looking for an internship. I really dislike having a baby face. |
But so many of them overweight and out of shape and they actually look way older than their years. |
| Lmaoooooooo they both look ridiculous, the guy on the left has had so much work done. I live in LA and everyone is plastic like this and then in 10 years their faces look melted like Brandi Granville. |