As I sat in the lobby during my son's ballet class -- yes, yes, young Xingu takes ballet, mainly so he can get to the part where they tap dance -- I had my first experience with More magazine, which I believe is targeted to women in the perimenopausal years. I wish I had counted the number of full-page ads promising to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, turn back the years, deflate the puffs under your eyes, lift sagging skin, yadda yadda you know what I'm saying. Some of the ads were for surgery.
Does anyone else find this sad?
Why are so many women so gullible? I know someone who travels with such a glut of unguents that she checks a suitcase for a 36-hour trip. She has great skin, she looks at least 15 years younger than she is (a good dye job too), but she couldn't bypass the regimen for two days. Maybe that's why she looks 15 years younger than she is, and people ask me, "Are you Xingu's grandma?"
Then there was the editorial in More on how your passport photos tell the real story of "where your looks have gone."
People, we don't look like we did at 20 or 30. I for one am glad. What is wrong with looking 50? Please, tell me -- what is wrong with it?
About Me
- Hagga
- What's it like to be a midwestern American female at age 50? Let's find out together! I'm perfectly normal in many respects. I am my second husband's third wife. Our child is younger than most children of 50 year-old mothers. We work, we scrape, we worry. And I'm wondering what 50 will bring, in addition to swollen ankles. Insight? wisdom? yuks? or yucks? My goal is to post from time to time for a year, beginning on my 50th birthday. All's I know is this: we've got to be strong. In every way.
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