Anonymous wrote:In my case, very much no. The pretty women from my late 20s/early 30s have all either overdone the interventions and look weird, or they gained weight and drank too much and look it.

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Anonymous wrote:I have one friend whose mother was a beauty queen and she takes after her mother. She still looks great at 60+. She's definitely used GLP1s recently but who hasn't.

Nobody in my circle is taking any GLP1s. Who are you hanging out with?

They are.

This is what my family doctor said. She asked me twice if I am taking it (I am 51, and weight 119), and I did not even know what she is talking about. And then she explained to me and mentioned that almost everyone is taking it today. I was shocked.

I'm not the PP you were responding to, but surely you understand that she probably caters to a certain social group. These things tend to spread by word of mouth. No one I know well takes these drugs. They would tell me if they did, we share such things. On the contrary, I know people who are chronically underweight: my mother, my best friend and my adult son. My son was on a weight-gaining plan for many years. I'm a little plumper than I want to be, but like another poster said, I would never take on the cost and effort and side-effects of such drugs just to lose 5-10lbs. I'd rather keep them! I'm 120lbs for 5'4".

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Anonymous wrote:I have one friend whose mother was a beauty queen and she takes after her mother. She still looks great at 60+. She's definitely used GLP1s recently but who hasn't.

Nobody in my circle is taking any GLP1s. Who are you hanging out with?

They are.

This is what my family doctor said. She asked me twice if I am taking it (I am 51, and weight 119), and I did not even know what she is talking about. And then she explained to me and mentioned that almost everyone is taking it today. I was shocked.

I'm not the PP you were responding to, but surely you understand that she probably caters to a certain social group. These things tend to spread by word of mouth. No one I know well takes these drugs. They would tell me if they did, we share such things. On the contrary, I know people who are chronically underweight: my mother, my best friend and my adult son. My son was on a weight-gaining plan for many years. I'm a little plumper than I want to be, but like another poster said, I would never take on the cost and effort and side-effects of such drugs just to lose 5-10lbs. I'd rather keep them! I'm 120lbs for 5'4".

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Anonymous wrote:I have one friend whose mother was a beauty queen and she takes after her mother. She still looks great at 60+. She's definitely used GLP1s recently but who hasn't.

Nobody in my circle is taking any GLP1s. Who are you hanging out with?

They are.

Please. People I've known since college or for the past ten years and have always been a “normal” weight aren’t suddenly going to start taking weight loss drugs.

That would be a very odd decision.

And they’re not celebrities. I doubt a doctor would even be willing to prescribe it for people who aren’t overweight/obese.

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Anonymous wrote:I have one friend whose mother was a beauty queen and she takes after her mother. She still looks great at 60+. She's definitely used GLP1s recently but who hasn't.

Nobody in my circle is taking any GLP1s. Who are you hanging out with?

They are.

This is what my family doctor said. She asked me twice if I am taking it (I am 51, and weight 119), and I did not even know what she is talking about. And then she explained to me and mentioned that almost everyone is taking it today. I was shocked.

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Anonymous wrote:The key is genetics and skincare/sun avoidance.

I come from western Europe and I'm in my 40s. Most of the girls who were stunning in high school smoked and drank, and likely did not age well. The very few that had a healthy lifestyle and healthy parents to teach them how to care for themselves probably fared a lot better. I recall in particular a pretty friend's very handsome mother, with beautiful skin, and the most stunning white-grey hair down to her waist. I've lost touch since, but it wouldn't surprise me that my pretty friend aged just as well as her mother. She clearly knew how to take care of herself!

When I settled here in my 20s, I made friends with Americans who had mostly middle class childhoods and while they did not smoke and drank in moderation, they were not taught to avoid the sun. So even though some of them looked great in their 20s and 30s, now in middle age and beyond, none of them look good now.

I used to be a baby-faced cute-ish girl, never beautiful or stunning. I wasn't particularly popular as a younger woman. But since I've never smoked or drank, and apart from an insolation accident at 19, tried to put on sunscreen... it turns out I look far younger than anyone in my social circle right now. And looking youthful and fresh is now very attractive to men in my circle. I get a lot more compliments now than I used to, just because they're comparing me with women of my own age who look older.

Oh hunny. The smoking, drinking and sunscreen thing is just silly. Sorry you missed out so much. I smoked, dran, didn't use sunscreen, lived in the tropics and look better than most my age. It's just genetics. And staying hydrated.

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Anonymous wrote:The key is genetics and skincare/sun avoidance.

I come from western Europe and I'm in my 40s. Most of the girls who were stunning in high school smoked and drank, and likely did not age well. The very few that had a healthy lifestyle and healthy parents to teach them how to care for themselves probably fared a lot better. I recall in particular a pretty friend's very handsome mother, with beautiful skin, and the most stunning white-grey hair down to her waist. I've lost touch since, but it wouldn't surprise me that my pretty friend aged just as well as her mother. She clearly knew how to take care of herself!

When I settled here in my 20s, I made friends with Americans who had mostly middle class childhoods and while they did not smoke and drank in moderation, they were not taught to avoid the sun. So even though some of them looked great in their 20s and 30s, now in middle age and beyond, none of them look good now.

I used to be a baby-faced cute-ish girl, never beautiful or stunning. I wasn't particularly popular as a younger woman. But since I've never smoked or drank, and apart from an insolation accident at 19, tried to put on sunscreen... it turns out I look far younger than anyone in my social circle right now. And looking youthful and fresh is now very attractive to men in my circle. I get a lot more compliments now than I used to, just because they're comparing me with women of my own age who look older.

Oh hunny. The smoking, drinking and sunscreen thing is just silly. Sorry you missed out so much. I smoked, dran, didn't use sunscreen, lived in the tropics and look better than most my age. It's just genetics. And staying hydrated.

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Anonymous wrote:The key is genetics and skincare/sun avoidance.

I come from western Europe and I'm in my 40s. Most of the girls who were stunning in high school smoked and drank, and likely did not age well. The very few that had a healthy lifestyle and healthy parents to teach them how to care for themselves probably fared a lot better. I recall in particular a pretty friend's very handsome mother, with beautiful skin, and the most stunning white-grey hair down to her waist. I've lost touch since, but it wouldn't surprise me that my pretty friend aged just as well as her mother. She clearly knew how to take care of herself!

When I settled here in my 20s, I made friends with Americans who had mostly middle class childhoods and while they did not smoke and drank in moderation, they were not taught to avoid the sun. So even though some of them looked great in their 20s and 30s, now in middle age and beyond, none of them look good now.

I used to be a baby-faced cute-ish girl, never beautiful or stunning. I wasn't particularly popular as a younger woman. But since I've never smoked or drank, and apart from an insolation accident at 19, tried to put on sunscreen... it turns out I look far younger than anyone in my social circle right now. And looking youthful and fresh is now very attractive to men in my circle. I get a lot more compliments now than I used to, just because they're comparing me with women of my own age who look older.

Oh hunny. The smoking, drinking and sunscreen thing is just silly. Sorry you missed out so much. I smoked, dran, didn't use sunscreen, lived in the tropics and look better than most my age. It's just genetics. And staying hydrated.

Anonymous wrote:The key is genetics and skincare/sun avoidance.

I come from western Europe and I'm in my 40s. Most of the girls who were stunning in high school smoked and drank, and likely did not age well. The very few that had a healthy lifestyle and healthy parents to teach them how to care for themselves probably fared a lot better. I recall in particular a pretty friend's very handsome mother, with beautiful skin, and the most stunning white-grey hair down to her waist. I've lost touch since, but it wouldn't surprise me that my pretty friend aged just as well as her mother. She clearly knew how to take care of herself!

When I settled here in my 20s, I made friends with Americans who had mostly middle class childhoods and while they did not smoke and drank in moderation, they were not taught to avoid the sun. So even though some of them looked great in their 20s and 30s, now in middle age and beyond, none of them look good now.

I used to be a baby-faced cute-ish girl, never beautiful or stunning. I wasn't particularly popular as a younger woman. But since I've never smoked or drank, and apart from an insolation accident at 19, tried to put on sunscreen... it turns out I look far younger than anyone in my social circle right now. And looking youthful and fresh is now very attractive to men in my circle. I get a lot more compliments now than I used to, just because they're comparing me with women of my own age who look older.