Martha Stewart on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's great! She looks fantastic and it's inspirational to women. Vibrant and beautiful at 81.

https://people.com/style/martha-stewart-2023-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-interview-exclusive/

She looks gorgeous:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsQ8N0Lsb_g/?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

She does, but some of those poses are just ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s sad that a woman of 81 is still desperate for the male gaze. And that women all over will see this and feel like crap because they don’t look like she does at 81 - never mind she’s had plenty of expensive work done, uses plenty of expensive products and has a life of leisure most women could not imagine and with which they, too, might have fewer wrinkles.

I do hospice work and I’ve spent most of the last decade with elders. I was also raised largely by my grandmother and spent a lot of time with her peers, so I’ve been around elders a great deal my whole life. I think elderly faces are beautiful with their deep grooves hard earned from enduring the wreckage that life can often bring.

It’s sad to me that the notion of diversity exhibited by this SI cover means applying the same ridiculous beauty standards put on young women onto older women, too. I guess we should all embrace being objectified right up to the grave, but it’s gross. Look what poor Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda did to their faces during the years that Grace & Frankie ran on Netflix - I loved the show because it focused on older folks, but the last couple of seasons they had both butchered their faces so badly it was painful to look at them, they were plastic and ugly. I would go to work with the lovely old wrinkled and yet beautiful woman I was nursing to the end, then go home and dial up G&F and it just made me sad.

Head’s up to the ladies doing this stuff to your faces and bodies - you will look like a freak if you are lucky enough to make it to your 90s.

While I respect what you're saying. Martha in this example has always been appearance focused so anything she is doing is in line with her personality regardless of age.

[Anonymous]

The people freaking out about this are hilarious. If it's not your thing, cool. But she looks decent overall and phenomenal for an octogenarian.

Having STRONG OPINIONS about Sports Illustrated or what Martha Stewart does with her time is crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:It's weird to have a mid life crisis at 80. Seems she's become super superficial in old age. Bizarre since she was never valued for her sex appeal in the first place.

Except when she starting modeling at 15.

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Anonymous wrote:I love it! I bet there are a bunch of angry, slovenly male subscribers, though,

A HS "Friend" was complaining about it on FB and how it promotes plastic surgery and how SI being "woke" Yes, his use of the word "wok" says all you need to know about him.

Bet he has no objections to plastic surgery when it comes to breast augmentation or photoshopped images.

“Woke” is a term that was coined by the left. Clearly SI has gone full woke by putting an octogenarian ex-con, fat women and men who think they are women in what was once the best selling issue of the year. Nobody wants to look at any of these people in bathing suits. Used to be men were their target audience, I guess not anymore.

SI’s target audience has moved over to OnlyFans and harder stuff. Like most of print media these days, SI is trying to figure out how to stay relevant.

BTW I think it’s great they put an 81-year-old on the cover. Even if she has botox and fillers, even if I’d never do those myself. You know you guys would slay any 80-something who was photographed wrinkles and all, because they’re supposed to fade away into irrelevance, right? Martha is a toe in the water (literally) for representing octogenarians.

She is a billionaire and will never be irrelevant. Whether people like to admit it or not, the SI swimsuit issue used to be about young gorgeous women posing in exotic locations. Not about making a billionaire octogenarian ex-con feel better about herself, empowering delusional men or affirming overweight women by trying to make them think they are as beautiful as a Kathy Ireland, etc. Oh well, just another one of life’s pleasures the left is destroying.

SI was ALWAYS about empowering delusional men. Also, you missed the point of the rest of my post.

[Anonymous]

OK, I kind of love it. I do think her face looks way too plastic-y. But her shoulders, arms and legs look strong and toned. The suits are flattering and appropriate for an 80yo, I could definitely picture my 75yo mom wearing them - it's not like she put on some ridiculous looking skimpy bikini to try and look sexy. She looks strong, mature, and self confident. I feel like she is laughing her way through this, having a great time and just being like eff-it, I'm 81 and going to have fun in life! When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple.....

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Jailbait. LoL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people freaking out about this are hilarious. If it's not your thing, cool. But she looks decent overall and phenomenal for an octogenarian.

Having STRONG OPINIONS about Sports Illustrated or what Martha Stewart does with her time is crazy.

Who is freaking out? If you mean twitter, when are those people not freaking out about everything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s sad that a woman of 81 is still desperate for the male gaze. And that women all over will see this and feel like crap because they don’t look like she does at 81 - never mind she’s had plenty of expensive work done, uses plenty of expensive products and has a life of leisure most women could not imagine and with which they, too, might have fewer wrinkles.

I do hospice work and I’ve spent most of the last decade with elders. I was also raised largely by my grandmother and spent a lot of time with her peers, so I’ve been around elders a great deal my whole life. I think elderly faces are beautiful with their deep grooves hard earned from enduring the wreckage that life can often bring.

It’s sad to me that the notion of diversity exhibited by this SI cover means applying the same ridiculous beauty standards put on young women onto older women, too. I guess we should all embrace being objectified right up to the grave, but it’s gross. Look what poor Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda did to their faces during the years that Grace & Frankie ran on Netflix - I loved the show because it focused on older folks, but the last couple of seasons they had both butchered their faces so badly it was painful to look at them, they were plastic and ugly. I would go to work with the lovely old wrinkled and yet beautiful woman I was nursing to the end, then go home and dial up G&F and it just made me sad.

Head’s up to the ladies doing this stuff to your faces and bodies - you will look like a freak if you are lucky enough to make it to your 90s.

And if it was a young model young girls could feel like crap because they will never look like her, especially the photoshopped cover image of here.

[Anonymous]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Women have two choices:

Look old

Look weird

Either way, there's criticism. So do what makes you feel good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing hot about Martha at all. I bet she looks every bit of her 80 years of age when she's not had her hair dyed and is without makeup.

You're missing the fact that a sports magazine put an 80-year-old woman on its swimsuit cover. That she doesn't look 80 isn't the point. There was a time when you wouldn't see anyone over 30 on the cover.

They have fat, obese women in bathing suits now too.

Man, I miss the old days with Cheryl Tiegs, Kathy Ireland, Elle, Paulina, Carol Alt, Christie Brinkley when they were in their prime. I loved watching the documentary and the different suits and locations and the girls sometimes freezing or literally having their feet shredded to get just the right photo…and the composition of the right suit, right color with the surroundings. It was such a big reveal —the cover back in the day and the models were so stunning. As a straight, heterosexual teen girl I loved, loved those old issues.

Martha looks great, but I wish they kept the supermodels and didn’t start making a men’s jerk magazine include an 81-year old grandma on the cover or a 215lb woman in a thong on the pages.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I kind of love it. I do think her face looks way too plastic-y. But her shoulders, arms and legs look strong and toned. The suits are flattering and appropriate for an 80yo, I could definitely picture my 75yo mom wearing them - it's not like she put on some ridiculous looking skimpy bikini to try and look sexy. She looks strong, mature, and self confident. I feel like she is laughing her way through this, having a great time and just being like eff-it, I'm 81 and going to have fun in life! When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple.....

I agree with you except to a point. I can promise you she has thin, crepey, lined, jiggly skin on her arms, neck, hands and legs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, I kind of love it. I do think her face looks way too plastic-y. But her shoulders, arms and legs look strong and toned. The suits are flattering and appropriate for an 80yo, I could definitely picture my 75yo mom wearing them - it's not like she put on some ridiculous looking skimpy bikini to try and look sexy. She looks strong, mature, and self confident. I feel like she is laughing her way through this, having a great time and just being like eff-it, I'm 81 and going to have fun in life! When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple.....

Completely agree. You can cheer on Martha Stewart and ALSO cheer for all the regular grandmas!

[Anonymous]

Martha is now claiming her fresh face is because she takes her vitamins lol.

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Can someone please tell me the beauty and surgery routine to be looking like Martha at 81