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To say she simply cannot be turning 40?!

182 replies

Downtownonsaturdaynight · 15/11/2024 18:40

I'm a big fan of Gemma Atkinson. Always had her down as a young mum. Yet i just read she is turning 40 tomorrow!!!

OP posts:
Lisanoonan · 15/11/2024 22:51

SabreIsMyFave · 15/11/2024 22:49

They don't look like 40 year olds do now. 😆 Like with Hilda Ogden, the difference between them and Gemma Atkinson is phenomenal!

Yeah there's definitely better styling now.

There's better beauty products available.

Slap a bit of contour on the one on the right , amd get her hair improved, and she'd look amazing!

Lookingatthesunset · 15/11/2024 23:08

BleekHaus · 15/11/2024 19:23

He wasn’t her pro partner.

I don't think they are actually married, she has two children (Mia and Thiago) with Gorka Marquez a professional dancer who she met on Strictly but who wasn't partnered with her, and she looks amazing at 40.

However 40 is not old!!!

She's far from a Boomer for whoever made that completely inaccurate comment!!

Lookingatthesunset · 15/11/2024 23:10

Bogginsthe3rd · 15/11/2024 19:41

She's basically a boomer

You are basically so factually incorrect!!

Do you even know what a boomer is? It's a pretty derogatory term the way it's used as well.

CrowleyKitten · 15/11/2024 23:13

forty sounds about right to me.
40 is younger than a lot of people seem to THINK it is.

Spirallingdownwards · 15/11/2024 23:20

Tabbyandwhite · 15/11/2024 21:28

Never heard of her. Googling, she looks her age. Has she had fillers and other procedures though?

Edited to add: she looks very much like a younger Claire Sweeney.

Edited

She looks absolutely nothing like Claire Sweeney 🤔😂😂😂

Spirallingdownwards · 15/11/2024 23:21

It will blow everyone's mind when they remember she used to date Cristiano Ronaldo.

Scrimt · 15/11/2024 23:22

I'd riot if someone told me I looked like a young Claire Sweeney

hot2trotter · 15/11/2024 23:22

She looks great, always has. I thought she was around my age, mid thirties.

Disturbia81 · 15/11/2024 23:23

Scrimt · 15/11/2024 23:22

I'd riot if someone told me I looked like a young Claire Sweeney

Why?

Lookingatthesunset · 15/11/2024 23:24

Itsalwaysfools · 15/11/2024 21:32

Don't worry, this won't happen when you're 50 plus. Age levels the playing field unfortunately!! Looking young at 40 is easy. Skincare makes no difference. Looking young at 50 plus is impossible. Everyone 50 and onwards looks their age.

That's absolute nonsense. Plenty of 50+ women look younger than their years, as do some 60+, 70+ etc...

I look younger than I am in my early 60s. I know this because (a) I have a mirror, (b) because so did my mother and my grandmother and I have inherited their good skin, (c) because people seem genuinely shocked when they find out my age, and I have a good bullshit radar, and (d) people tell me who I know aren't bullshitting me. I am lazy about skincare, I have to admit! Cleanser and toner are about it!

You don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb, but not dressing 'old' has a massive impact on how old you look. Hair and makeup are also important. I am lucky not to have any greys yet, but I refuse to go grey anyway because I think it would just drain me with my skin colouring!

I'm never going to look 30 or 40 but I'm good with people thinking I am still in my 50s!

Scrimt · 15/11/2024 23:25

Lisanoonan · 15/11/2024 22:36

Shakira is I'm her forties and looks like she is 20.

I just saw a video of Shania Twain. She is in her 60s. She looks absolutely stunning

I saw a picture of Shania Twain recently and did not recognise her 🤔

To say she simply cannot be turning 40?!
Lookingatthesunset · 15/11/2024 23:25

Scrimt · 15/11/2024 23:22

I'd riot if someone told me I looked like a young Claire Sweeney

Jesus you must be some hot stuff!

Young Claire Sweeney was very pretty, and she is still a very attractive woman now that she's older.

Maybe you should share your photo?

Scrimt · 15/11/2024 23:27

Lookingatthesunset · 15/11/2024 23:25

Jesus you must be some hot stuff!

Young Claire Sweeney was very pretty, and she is still a very attractive woman now that she's older.

Maybe you should share your photo?

She's in the Jane McDonald cruise ship mode. Not my aesthetic. Sweet of you to stick up for her though.

bows101 · 15/11/2024 23:27

She's always happy and smiling. I think positive happy people always look more youthful

Disturbia81 · 15/11/2024 23:28

SabreIsMyFave · 15/11/2024 22:41

Case in point. These 2 women (both holding a bottle,) are in their early 40s. This was the mid 1960s.

Imagine them with longer hair, different clothes and makeup, they would look like we do now.
A lot of looking "old" back then was the styling
But some were also more wrinkled with a hard life, smoking etc

hellsbells99 · 15/11/2024 23:31

Gemma is a radio presenter on Signal Radio. She is very funny

BobbyBiscuits · 15/11/2024 23:41

I thought she was a bit older than that. I guess she was famous in her late teens? She looks good but why wouldn't a healthy woman with a reasonable income, who works in the public eye look good at 40? Most regular 40 yo women nowadays look great. And usually several years 'younger' looks wise.

FrancisQuoynt · 15/11/2024 23:52

Gymrabbit · 15/11/2024 19:33

Pretty sure they are not married, been engaged for years and have two children.
as others said he wasn’t her pro- partner (Gorka have been too short to be partnered with her) she was with Alijaz.
and agree with the OP- she’s a youthful 40.

They are married now.

notacooldad · 16/11/2024 00:00

*Scrimt · Today 23:22
I'd riot if someone told me I looked like a young Claire Sweeney
Why?
Exactly why?
It just seems like an over the top bitchy remark. There us nothing wrong with Clare Sweeney, young or older?
Why be like this?

Scrimt · 16/11/2024 00:02

notacooldad · 16/11/2024 00:00

*Scrimt · Today 23:22
I'd riot if someone told me I looked like a young Claire Sweeney
Why?
Exactly why?
It just seems like an over the top bitchy remark. There us nothing wrong with Clare Sweeney, young or older?
Why be like this?

cool 👍

Tabbyandwhite · 16/11/2024 00:02

Saying she looks like Claire Sweeney is a compliment. Both are pretty women.

Softpersimmon · 16/11/2024 00:06

You don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb

what a revoltingly misogynistic comment @Lookingatthesunset

Jumpingthruhoops · 16/11/2024 00:18

Disturbia81 · 15/11/2024 19:34

40 isn't old these days, tons of people look good. I don't understand this "invisibility/feeling old" thing at all, I feel like I'm finally coming into myself in all areas in my 40s

This! I don't feel invisible at all. Quite the opposite in fact!

Gemma A is an absolute force of a woman. Aside from being stunningly beautiful (regardless of her age), she works out regularly and follows a very healthy - but certainly not restrictive - diet. But it's certainly not all 'surface': she's kind, considerate, very down to earth and has a solid moral compass. This is all alongside having a radio job plus looking after a house, two kids and a dog! She's quite the inspiration.

Jumpingthruhoops · 16/11/2024 00:21

LemongrassLollipop · 15/11/2024 19:20

Struck by the Strictly curse..She got together with her pro partner after the show and they have a child together. Can't recall his name.

Both Gemma and Gorka were single when they met on Strictly in 2017, so it's hardly a 'curse'. They've been together since then and now have two children.

BellissimoGecko · 16/11/2024 00:29

Itisjustmyopinion · 15/11/2024 21:31

Ooh the bitchiness is out tonight. Thought I was on Tattle for a minute. Some of the comments here are pathetic.

Yep!