Why do people look so much younger now?
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Anonymous
Take Rue McLanahan and give her a modern haircut and clothes usually seen on an average professional woman (not a celeb) in her early 50s today. She wouldn’t look old at all. We just associate that big hair, frosted lipstick, big earrings, pastels/prints etc. with Greatest Generationers in the 80s. |
Anonymous
| It is not just looks. It is what people are doing. Today someone who is 60 is doinbg things and has a lifestyle that someone 45 had in the 1950s. And it continues. People who are 70 for the most part do and act like people who were in their 50s acted a half century plus ago. |
Anonymous
It is more than that. It is diet, working out, sunscreen, better attitude on life, less stress (no Great Depresssion or WWII). |
Anonymous
| Hair coloring #1 |
Anonymous
Although well-to-do women also avoided the sun like the plague, so their skin was probably very nice. |
Anonymous
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ha! I bet in 20 years, people will look at us and say how old we looked.
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Anonymous
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Sunscreen and fluoride.
I was born in ‘78 and have had fluoride my whole life. My teeth look great and I have all of my original teeth with no crowns or root canals - unlike my parents who had silver filings in their back teeth by their 40s and 40s. Sunscreen in an SPF greater than 8 was rare until the 90s and then 15 or 30 were the highest. It was also chalky, sticky, and expensive. A culture of wearing sunscreen for things other than vacation or a day at the beach didn’t exist until the mid-90s. Women who grew up wearing spf moisturizer every day of the year are just now turning 40. I have elementary age boys and they have never had a true sunburn, only a few times have they looked bit pink and it healed overnight. They wear spf 50 on their face in the summer and spf 30 in the winter. Their generation will look so young compared to mine. |
Anonymous
People drink less alcohol as well compared to the 70s and 80s |
Anonymous
Two words: Wilford Brimley in Cocoon. |
Anonymous
I forgot fitness. Women are definitely more active than my mother’s generation. I know many women in their 50s who run marathons. Growing up in the 80s, women walked and played golf, maybe did some jazzercise (the 80s version of Zumba). The really “sporty” moms played tennis. |
Anonymous
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Sunscreen
Tretinoin Botox/lasers Weight training Better dental care Better teath. Rue McLanahan v Jennifer Lopez comes down to skin care and treatments and hair style. |
Anonymous
| Most people don't smoke and know not to roast in the sun now. |
Anonymous
I had to look at pics of them at the same age to compare: Rue actually is not more wrinkled or older looking than JLo in terms of face (most pics we see of Jlo are edited). The #1 issue are the hair and clothes. Put long hair and current clothing on her and she will look maybe 5 years older tops. |
Anonymous
J Lo is the exception, not the rule. I get so sick of people on DCUM acting like that's what typical 54 year olds look like. She spends more money on beauty than you make in a year. |
Anonymous
Rue began her role as Blanche in 1985. Here is her 1985 photo (not the one posted above)
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