To say she simply cannot be turning 40?!

Wrinkles aren’t the full picture anyway. I’m 57 and don’t have wrinkles on my face, but I look every single one of my 57 years. My ‘scaffolding’ has started to collapse and my face has changed from a sort of elongated oval into an oblong. Like Spongebob SquarePants🤣 My mum had fantastic skin, despite a lifetime of no sunscreen and eventually the almost inevitable skin cancer. In her eighties she needed a skin graft due to a squamous cell carcinoma and the dermatologist commented on her very youthful and wrinkle free skin. In fact the skin graft had to be taken from her neck as the preferred site (just beneath the ear lobe) was too taut. But still withal, she looked very much like a woman in her eighties.

I read this an awful lot on MN - people who haven't had kids ageing better than those who have had kids. Surely if ageing is predominantly due to genetics, it wouldn't matter whether someone is a parent or not?

I also think most people who are "stunning" in their 20s will look good all their lives really.

Gemma looks absolutely amazing and she keeps herself in great shape. She also has a great personality.
But she definitely doesnt have it all..I turned on the toddler club for dc one day and omg my ears at her singing 🤣 (lighthearted)

No, not desperate at all. I don't actually care what age someone else thinks I look. Why on earth would I. It makes zero difference to my life. I use moisturisers so my skin is cared for and feels nice. Don't care about anything else. I happen to have good skin and no wrinkles but I expect they will come.

I actually think it is sadder than strangers can carry on bullying and pushing onto other women their thoughts and won't accept the truth.

Everyone looks their age because we are that age. But societal pressures will mean that someone can be 30 but to someone else looks what they imagine 25 to be. Can also be they look 35. It's not that difficult.

I am sure you think you're being cool. You're not. You're being spiteful, hard of thinking and just awful.

I'd be with you OP if it showed you how times seem to fly by.

Absolutely did not need a boost. I have no issue if people think I look older than I am. Why would I care? I was buying moisturisers etc. she said what she used and volunteered how old she was and I was shocked. She genuinely looked younger. So of course only fair for her to know my age. I'm not sad. I don't need or want smoke blown up my arse. It was all in context. But you carry on.

I'm 39 and she looks similar to me. I look really young for my age too. For some reason millennials aren't aging like the generations either side. It's been a hot topic in social media. No idea why for the general population but I have a genetic disorder that makes me stay looking younger. It's the only positive thing about having it.

Never heard of her but she is gorgeous but honestly I think she does look her age?? I'm only a few years younger, but she looks fairly similar agewise to me and I reckon I look bang on late 30s. She is clearly very healthy

Not everyone looks their age. What a huge generalisation you are making!

Oh go and do one, I had my youngest when I was 40! It wasn't planned that way but I had two miscarriages, so shoot me now! Nothing wrong with having a baby in your 40s!

You are actually talking crap!

Well I feel "invisible" in my early 60s. It's actually soul destroying. I am still the same person I have always been but apparently now I am old and irrelevant. Never saw this coming.

Why ffs? I am in my 60s. I don't want to dress like someone my daughters' ages!!!

What a revoltingly ridiculous comment! I think at my age, I have earned the right to make my statement!!

Nah I just tell it as I see it. Jane McDonald looks pretty good too. Maybe you would care to share a photo of yourself??

Yes of course people have wrinkles at 40

Wrinkles at 40?

Exactly this. It's a well documented fact that people often knock 5 years off when guessing someone's age. And it smacks of deep insecurity and desperate attention-seeking, to demand that someone tells you the absolute truth when you ask 'what do you think my age is?'

The fact is you look your age @JawsCushion You are 52, and to some people you will look 46-47, to others you will look 55-57. I am mid 50s and have had some people assume I'm 5-6 years younger, and some people assume I'm 5-6 years older. Plain fact is, I look my age. So do you. The desperation to be thought of as looking younger and to tell everyone on here that this person and that person said you look sooooo much younger is actually a bit tragic.

Yeah, big round of applause for all the women who look younger than their age. What an amazing achievement.

FFS.

You told her to 'tell you the absolute truth'. That smacks of needing a boost. She gave it to you. It's not about lying, people do just fudge when other people ask them about their age.

If you really weren't bothered you wouldn't have needed to ask for the truth. I think that only women ask what age people think they are. It's really sad. Women are beautiful whatever age they are, they don't need smoke blowing up their backsides.

I'm 52 and was told I looked in my 40s last week. I told her to tell me the absolute truth and she had no reason to lie. Wouldn't have cared if she said I looked older than I am. I do think I look in my 40s but it is completely irrelevant to anything.

They really aren't. Not yet.

It came across nasty when it was a direct reply to a PP saying people say she gets told she looks 10 years younger. If you put a line up of 50 year olds next to each-other some would look that age, some would look a lot older and some would look a lot younger due to genetics, smoking, sun exposure, looking after skin, what they eat, how they dress and exercise they do or don’t do to keep fitness/body type. Just because someone is over 50 doesn’t mean they look the same age as another person that age so I believe people can 100% look younger than what they are even past the age of 50