Topic: aging gracefully

Daily Fail: Study Finds 29-Year-Old Women Are Hideous, Need More Anti-Aging Products

Daily Fail: Study Finds 29-Year-Old Women Are Hideous, Need More Anti-Aging Products

Crusading against the idea that all women over 30 are old hags has been something of a hobby horse of mine lately. It’s a fight that’s generally met with ‘Amen’s’ from Gen X and Y women and skepticism by similarly-aged men (note to guys: just because you personally don’t subscribe do the idea that it’s all downhill for women’s looks after 23 doesn’t mean we’re not bombarded with that message from myriad directions). Well, lo and behold — as if to perfectly illustrate my point — this Daily Mail article about how women worry about the visible effects of aging “at just 29 YEARS OLD.” Like so many pieces in our favorite tabloid, the writer is ostensibly credulous at this phenomenon while backhandedly exclaiming at how old and ugly 29-year-old women are. More »

Betty White Turns 90 — And Has Been Awesomely Acting Her Age For 30 years

Betty White Turns 90 -- And Has Been Awesomely Acting Her Age For 30 years

Michelle Obama isn’t the only awesome role model with a birthday today–January 17 is also the day when, 90 years ago, the world was blessed with the sassy, beautiful Betty White. The former Golden Girl and recent cult hero may have recently become popular with the younger crowd, but it’s not because she’s putting on airs about her own age. White has been proudly defying aging stereotypes for much of her long career, and, most recently, embracing the realities of getting older by working with AARP. She’s a new kind of role model, both for her impressive career and her inspirational acceptance of aging. More »

Kelly Osbourne Hates This Look, But What’s So Bad About Gray Hair, Anyway?

Kelly Osbourne Hates This Look, But What's So Bad About Gray Hair, Anyway?

Like every optimistic 20-something, I always said that once I started to go gray, I would embrace it…until, at 22, I found my first silver hairs, which I decidedly did not embrace. Imagine my surprise, then, when Kelly Osbourne, who has experimented with hair color for as long as she’s been in the public eye, actually chose long, silky, Emmylou Harris-colored strands.  The look is being roundly rejected–Kelly herself, apparently, hates it–but why is going gray something so horrifying anyway? More »

Growing Up, Getting Older, And Giving Up the Bottle

Growing Up, Getting Older, And Giving Up the Bottle

This Saturday will be my – big breath, take a gulp – twenty-ninth birthday. Considering how many of my friends are happy and healthy in their thirties and how the women in my family continue kicking ass well into their seventies, aging should not be something I’m afraid of. But because I live in a world that gets tired of women easily, I admit that this birthday – and the one that will come after it – are causing me to freak out a bit. Thirty is the kind of milestone age we set guidelines for: “I want to have kids by 30,” “I want to publish a book by the time I’m 30,” and so on. But as I start zeroing in on the last year of my 20s, there are a few changes in my life that happened without any choice. More »