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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]American women should watch more foreign movies and TV series. There are a lot of chic, sexy and not totally plastic looking older women to admire. It's hard when we have JLo as our one and only model of an attractive older woman. Go look up photos of Lena Olin, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Veronica Falcon, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sonia Braga. They're all beautiful. [/quote]

Totally agree with this.  The American obsession with looking young is so off-putting. Not to mention desperate.  Looking good doesn’t mean looking young.  Women can and do look fabulous at every age.  [/quote]

I think sometimes the obsession with looking young inhibits the ability of older women to look good. In the extreme, procedures and interventions designed to get rid of markers of age like lines, sagging, loss of color, and gray hair often look much more ridiculous than if they'd just let it be. I personally don't get why people try so hard to avoid wrinkles and sagging, in particular. First off, the procedures to get rid of them are not that good -- Botox has gotten better over the years but still leaves telltale signs, fillers are honestly pretty obvious, and neither is permanent and can wind up looking particularly bad over the course of many years. Like there are some weird things faces do after 20 years of regular Botox, like that thing where there are lots of fine lines and crepe-y skin right around the eye but everything around that is taught and smooth, which seems to only highlight how old the skin around the eye looks (Nicole Kidman is a good example of this but lots of celebrities and politicians get this once they hit 60). It would look better if they just had a face that aged evenly! I mean what is the point of your forehead being perfectly smooth if I can tell from other parts of your face how old you are?

I also think even people who don't do these procedures can get defeatist about aging. The famed "giving up." It's not that I think women owe it to anyone to look good -- do what you want. But I think many women decide to say "I don't care" because it's easier than trying to love who they are now. That's why it's so wonderful to see an older woman who looks great without trying to look young. It feels radical! Someone who puts their wrinkles or their graying hair or their middle aged figure out there and presents it as something wonderful instead of something to hide. That's what I aspire to. I don't want to conceal or prevent aging, I want to embrace it and celebrate it. But it takes bravery.[/quote]

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