I can't beleive this woman is 40 years old.

[Worst Username Ever]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/04/librarian.suit.ap/index.html

[JimmyJazz]

1. How old are you? And since when does "over 40" mean

"look like a total frump?"

[Worst Username Ever]

5. I've seen 40, and in my experience women do NOT look like this

at 40.

[JimmyJazz]

11. Gee thanks.

:(

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. And yet Jack Lalanne can look awesome at 80.

:eyes: Of course women, yourself included, can look gorgeous at forty and way beyond. My grandma has got a show stopping set of legs to this day. :hi:

[JimmyJazz]

32. Thank you love.

:pals:

[Worst Username Ever]

17. Hey, if you're 40 and look like you're 28, good for you.

I doubt I'll be so lucky.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

49. Hey, I thought you were in your early to mid 20's

You have the gift. Be very pleased and strut it woman!

[JimmyJazz]

54. Thanks, darling. I know I don't look quite that young, but I'd

like to think I have one or two good years left in me :)

On edit: I didn't mean to make this about me, btw - I was just a little insulted by the idea that women over 40 should look a certain way.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

56. You didn't

... make this about you. I was insulted a bit, too. I'm 37 ya know. I'm not ready to be put out to pasture yet, either. :P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

39. Most women I know look pretty good at 40 and over

it depends on where you live and your health. I noticed that women my age from sunny, hot climated look considerably older because of sun exposure. There's something to be said for cloudy, damp weather!

[WI_DEM]

68. 40 is a different thing these days than it was 30 years ago

I think many women at 40 today can and do look very hot. Why? same reason somebody at 25 may look frumpy--because they take care of themselves, exercise and eat wisely.

[Misunderestimator]

70. Hmmm.... Not so sure about that...

being 42 myself... I don't think I "look" any less youthful than that woman... but I'm biased I suppose. :shrug:

[Worst Username Ever]

71. I'm not saying it is not possible for people to look young for their age.

I am saying it is VERY rare that I see a 40 year old that I mistake for being my age (28-30).

[valis]

55. I know her. Serious. She's 40.

[Spinzonner]

2. I can't 'believe' you can't use the spell checker

[Worst Username Ever]

24. A spelling nazi! How original.

[xxqqqzme]

3. her hands don't look 40.

but then if she has been working indoors, limited exposure to sun I suppose it is possible. I live in the southwest just walking from your car N3 anywhere, over the years, ages your exposed skin. My hands look like I'm 70.

[amazona]

20. about those hands

That trick of holding your hands up so the blood flows out of the veins and makes them look younger still works in your 40s. If you look at the photo again, you'll see that's what she is doing. She knows every trick in the book to look younger. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I do exactly the same if I can't avoid being photographed.

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[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I can.

40 years old is a beautiful age. :hi:

[JimmyJazz]

12. I love you.

:hug:

[Dr.Phool]

6. "i" before "e" except after "c".

[TlalocW]

13. Eh?

I before E except after C?
What a strange soCIEty.

TlalocW

[xxqqqzme]

7. her hands don't look 40.

but then if she has been working indoors, limited exposure to sun I suppose it is possible. I live in the southwest just walking from your car N2 anywhere, over the years, ages your exposed skin. My hands look like I'm 70.

[Worst Username Ever]

8. I agree. Not a wrinkle!

[Nikia]

42. My hands look older

And I am 27 and generally look younger than my age. It has to do with the fact that I work in the food industry and am washing my hands often with above average strength soaps and sanitizer. With what I do, it is not good for me to use hand lotion after handwashing at work.
I am trying to use lotion more often while I am at home and my hands get a little better in later spring and summer. I want to avoid having permanently premature aged hands though.

[xultar]

9. Sure ethnic women often look young or way younger than we are. n/t

[Worst Username Ever]

10. Must be nice!

[xultar]

72. Effin A it shure is nice! n/t

[priller]

14. She looks mid-20's to me

[MrScorpio]

15. I can

I'm 43 and don't look it.

Some of us age gracefully

[supernova]

18. I'm almost 43 and I still occasionally get carded

especially if I don't have on any make up and am wearing a t-shirt and jeans.

The 40s rawk!

[Magrittes Pipe]

19. I know a 38-year-old who looks younger than her.

Of course, the comparison is hardly fair.

That said, she is a very beautiful woman, regardless of her age. Which has nothing to do with how good a librarian she is.

[brainshrub]

21. Anyone can look like that

if they have access to healthcare and have the time to workout regularly.

[miss_kitty]

22. I am 'cursed' with youthful looks

It was a pain when I was young. But you wouldn't think I'm MY age either. Some people look young.

[libhill]

23. No way / no how

this woman can't be but mid 20's - 40 yrs. old? Say it ain't so, Joe!

[redqueen]

25. I met a 34 year old woman that looks much older than I do

I'm 35...

It's all lifestyle, you know. How much time in the sun, what kind of food you eat, whether or not you work out, take care of your skin, etc.

[Bouncy Ball]

26. If you just glance at the picture, it's hard to believe she's 40,

but when you look a bit closer and longer, you can believe it.

Besides, the article says she's black. Also looks part Asian. There you go.

And hair color does wonders for those gray hairs!

[crispini]

27. Not at all. I'm pushing 40, and most people still think

I'm under 30. Getting enough sleep really helps. Most people don't get enough sleep. It actually gets kind of irritating, what with people not taking you seriously and stuff. I mean, YES, I'm a real adult, with a mortgage and shit, and I'm pretty responsible, I just happen to have a youthful attitude and look young. Right now I have a little bit of gray, and I'm keeping it; maybe that'll make people knock that stuff off. :7

[KittyWampus]

30. Me Too, Crispini. Maybe It's All That Joyous Keith Worship

that keeps us young :)

[crispini]

37. Hee hee hee hee!

It's the snark. :P

[kwassa]

28. I believe she is forty ....

Black and Asian women have a thicker layer of fat under their skin than white women, and tend to wrinkle less, and at a later age. My wife is forty-five and has no facial lines at all, is often mistaken, particularly by white people, as being much younger than she is.

[Logansquare]

29. I think they photographed the wrong woman

Here's her official Harvard photo:



Either that, or she's had a lot of work done since then.

[Worst Username Ever]

31. Are you kidding me?

That is the same woman??

[smbolisnch]

34. There is no way that is the same woman.

She looks completely different.

[kcwayne]

35. I think you are right. The woman in the CNN photo is Caucasian

or is wearing Caucasian wig on, and the nose, mouth, and eye features do not match your photo.

[Dervill Crow]

36. Eyebrow waxing, hairstyle, and lipstick.

I can believe it's the same woman. It's amazing what a difference can be made by little things.

[paula777]

38. That's not the same person that is in the original post

I guess they did photograph the wrong person

[DS1]

33. I can

:shrug:

[Logansquare]

40. OK, here's Boston Herald's photo of her

Something very strange and Michael Jackson-like is going on here (see her Harvard photo above)

[Worst Username Ever]

41. Ok, that looks like a mixture of the two photos.

This is very strange.

[Catherine Vincent]

62. Remind me of Jeff Gannon.....with his many faces.

:-)

[elehhhhna]

43. I can't believe Demi Moore's still 40 but I'm 45, even though a few short

years ago we were the exact same age.

[Skittles]

80. Demi has had extensive plastic surgery

lipo, breasts, all kinds of stuff

[Heidi]

44. When 40 feels good, it also tends to _look_ good. (eom)

[tigereye]

58. thank you

when people tell me I don't look over 40, I say, this is what over forty looks like....I really wish we weren't so obsessed as a culture with looking younger than we are, because the implication is that it is bad to age, period. And with age comes experience and wisdom. I earned these laugh lines and the silver hairs and I don't mind looking like I have lived life. That's the way it is and I am not ashamed to have them!

:)

[Heidi]

60. Same here.

I'm 42 and lovin' it. I'm smarter, clearer and healthier than ever before in my life, and I wouldn't trade this time in my life for anything!

[RetroLounge]

45. Then you should really get out more...

You're missing out...

RL

[Worst Username Ever]

47. Lol

You can have them all to yourself. I won't feel like I missed out. Really.

Particularily since this is the Boston Herald's picture of her.

[RetroLounge]

50. Go google on Benjamin Franklin's reasons

June 25. 1745

My dear Friend,

I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entring into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.

RL

[RetroLounge]

51. "Particularily since this is the Boston Herald's picture of her."

You got a problem with this picture?

I think she has a beautiful smile.

Not to mention she could probably teach you a few things...

RL

[Worst Username Ever]

53. You would disagree that the 2nd pic looks older than the 1st??

[RetroLounge]

57. Older yes, but still just as cute, if not moreso...

I prefer a bit of life experience and the ability to talk about more than the latest reality show, TRL, or beer bongs.

RL

[Worst Username Ever]

59. Well, subjectivity is subjectivity, so I respect your opinion,

But I'm just saying that if the woman in the top photo were walking down the street, she'd be more likely to cause me to lose my train of thought than the second. Once reason is that she looks closer to my age, and IMO, is more attractive also. But that is just my opinion. :HI:

[Catherine Vincent]

65. I think that is a nice picture of her....a little too much gums showing

but all and all, she is still attractive.

[asthmaticeog]

46. Damn, gotta say it:

MILF.

[Samurai_Writer]

48. Guess the ages on these women...

1st woman



2nd woman



Do either of these women look like they are in their mid-40s?

[Worst Username Ever]

52. Although certainly cute,

I would not mistake them for being my age (28-30), which is what I thought when I saw the top photo.

[Samurai_Writer]

66. That is actually my sister and me.

I'm the one on the top. I'm 44 and she is 43.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. When I was forty, I was consistently mistaken for being younger

:shrug:

[johnnie]

63. I know a lot of 40+ women that look that good

I don't know why you are surprised.

[RebelOne]

64. 40 is not old anymore.

Women today take better care of themselves and look younger at 40 than they did 50 years ago.

[valis]

67. 40 nowadays is adolescence, basically...

[Kat45]

69. I just turned 50, and I don't have wrinkles.

A number of people were shocked when they found out how old I am, particularly people in their early thirties. Good genes for looking younger, on both sides of my family. :-)

[Robeson]

73. I'm 41, full head of hair, no gray, no wrinkles, 6 ft. 160 lbs., and get..

...carded all the time. Lifestyles are healthier nowadays. This is not surprising at all...

[Maestro]

75. You sound sexy.

Don't tell my wife. ;)

[Robeson]

79. Thanks. I promise I want tell her.....

...:D

[Maestro]

74. My wife is 36 and has actually gotten carded

buying beer. Here is her pic.



I'm sure at 40 she still look great. I'm lucky.

[RagingInMiami]

82. brag, brag, brag

[Maestro]

83. Yeah I know

sometimes I need to remind myself I am lucky. ;)

[RagingInMiami]

84. You're both lucky

[Maestro]

85. Thanks -nt

[LostinVA]

76. I'm a 40-year-old woman and was carded

about two months ago... by a kid in his early 20's. Made my day. I work at a university, and people who don't know me think I'm a grad student in my ;ate 20's. I not bragging -- I'm thanking my family for damn good genes.

[Lorien]

81. Me too-got carded last month by a 19 year old

When I got lost on a campus last year a student showed me the way to the lecture hall and asked me what my major was! I also taught colllege courses a few years ago, and actually had a student quit my class on the first day because he "didn't want some girl his age educating him". :eyes:

Sunscreen, Cellex-C, and good genes. :-)

[JI7]

77. sunscreen probably

many women i see over 40 who look "good for 40" do so because they use sunscreen and don't go out baking themselves in the sun. and i guess just eating well and staying active would help also.

and there is another side to this also, i have seen some girls who are around 25 and younger than 40 and they look much older and usually it's because of the sun.

just using sunscreen and not baking in the sun helps a lot when it comes to having nice skin.

[Rabrrrrrr]

78. Holy hubba hubba!

That's one of the best lookin' 40 year olds I've ever seen.

:woohoo: :banghead: :applause: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :banghead: :banghead: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :banghead: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Worst Username Ever]

86. I agree. It is unbelieveable. You don't see that everyday.

[Left Is Write]

87. I believe she's forty.

Look at her neck and even a bit on her left hand.

She is youthful looking, yes, but she doesn't *not* look forty. I'm nearly at the 39 mark myself, and, though I look "youthful" (if I do say so myself), I also think I look like my age.

[Worst Username Ever]

89. I couldn't remember your username, but

your picture was one of the ones that came to mind when I was trying to think of 40 year olds (ok, 39) who look a LOT younger. A lot of the people on this board seem to think that I am saying that woman approaching 40 are not attractive for some reason. All I am saying is that if is rare that I see a picture of a woman at 40, and mistake her for being my age (I'm 28). You pics come to mind as being pretty darn close.

[BiggJawn]

88. I'd like a nice big cuppa...

...her bath-water!

You wanna know what the worst part is? She'll probably still be a babe at 60...