I don’t aspire to look as hot as Gwyneth Paltrow or JLo but their good looks over 50 benefit all women

For starters, I’m a lot closer in age than these women than most of the people who are commenting. I am one year older than Paltrow and two years younger than Aniston and Lopez. So in terms of age, we are colleagues. And how 35 year olds tell me I should ‘accept old age’ reminds me of my teenage years, I commented “I hate being 85” to my mother, who replied a wry way: “I won’t be able to if I’m 84”. If you haven’t run all the miles, you’re not running on time.

And, breaking news! I knew I would never look like those women, not even close. Although, as I mentioned before, I have a convenient form of body dysmorphia where I think I look better than I actually am; it’s quite fun. But not looking as good as the movie stars don’t make me feel squashed or incompetent or whatever their detractors think I should feel. In fact, I’m getting more and more tired of the crowd that seems to think everything makes women feel squashed and incompetent, while so many of us feel totally fine, thanks a lot. a lot of.

I don’t aspire to look anything as hot as these ladies (Paltrow snapped a photo on her 50th birthday in which she was captured in midair wearing a string bikini) small, and, in a separate shoot to mark the occasion, posed nude with yellow full-body make-up; she has the body of an athlete) but I believe the fact that they look so good emotional for all of us.

When I was young, showed like Golden girls was on TV. Three of the four characters, Blanche, Dorothy and Rose, are 53, 54 and 55 respectively – no different in age to our aforementioned trio – but they live in a retirement village and wear suits blue clothes. 1990s movies Bride’s Father shows Diane Keaton in her 40s, looking like a well-preserved 60-year-old. Anne Bancroft, the archetypal older woman, was 35 when she played Mrs. Robinson in the 1967 film graduate. And never mind the celebrities – back then, it was common for ordinary young women to cut their hair short, wear long skirts and accentuate their inner looks. Women have basically been washed away by the age of 30.

Well, turn that on. The fact that now even some women are recognized as hot over 50 has broken the age limit on sensuality that has imposed on us for centuries. I am, first of all, here for it.

At the age of 51, actress Monica Bellucci is a Bond girl in the spectre. Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, all 56, and Julia Roberts, 55, all still play the female lead. At 35, you might criticize them as outsiders who put unrealistic pressure on others, but at 51, I’m happy to see them show up.

Not all of us are vulnerable, especially at this age, to the point where we see a beautiful and broken woman inside. But the fact that women over 40 are sexy is no longer a fantasy which makes me feel more comfortable. The rising tide lifts all bodies.

Second opinion

Hopefully flu season is peaking and the pressure is easing off in our EDs, but this isn’t a ‘perfect storm’ that has blindfolded us, as we are being watched by TD officials, People increasingly seem innocent bystanders when they discuss the health service they are being paid to run, the HSE and the Department of Health said.

It’s a perfectly predictable event, when you look at our growing/aging population, low bed counts, and post-pandemic winters. Even without those elements, there’s nothing new here.

Twenty-five years ago, I worked at ED in downtown Dublin. It was one of the hardest jobs I’ve ever had. Even then, people were still on carts and on carpets on the floor. There is violence on a daily basis. People being treated in the hallway. Inability to access beds or tests. Lack of cadres and general siege mentality.

I’m 27 years old and I’ve seen people bleed to death and die of heart attacks in the ward; I was assaulted and desensitized. We became complacent about how bad it was because we never saw it any other way. Running our EDs like this is practically policy, so long-term matters.