Lovely story! Aging is a process. It takes a while to adjust to the changes on one's body and one's life. I try to think of each as a new perspective, a new lens with which to live my life. Isabella illustrates this as a timely example.
Here's a delightfully ironic biographical detail about Isabella. In Death Becomes Her, she played the impossibly youthful sorceress who tempted Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis with a potion that promised eternal life and youth. It was a case of art imitating life. Eternal youth is a chimera.
I was lucky enough to be that magazine art director, and those trips to LA were some of the best experiences of my career, much due to our deep friendship developed on those trips. I continued to art-direct covers of women 'of a certain age'--over 40 specifically--at MORE magazine years later, and found it inspiring to discover that most of them were delightful, smart, and surprisingly non-neurotic about their appearance. (with a few exceptions, of course). You won't be surprised to learn that Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis and Diane Keaton, among others, top my list of women who were generous, gracious and unself-conscious about their appearance.
Lovely story! Aging is a process. It takes a while to adjust to the changes on one's body and one's life. I try to think of each as a new perspective, a new lens with which to live my life. Isabella illustrates this as a timely example.
Yes to this! Great post, spot on.
I love her. I actually tried Botox once. I’m not totally sorry I did it but I can think of a dozen things I should have done with that $1000.
I would never do it again. My wrinkles are part of who I am. My history. My story. I’m good with them.
She is a beautiful person, inside and out. I love her wrinkles. Well told, Leanne.
Here's a delightfully ironic biographical detail about Isabella. In Death Becomes Her, she played the impossibly youthful sorceress who tempted Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis with a potion that promised eternal life and youth. It was a case of art imitating life. Eternal youth is a chimera.
Nice, and you are right, of course. Thanks, Phil.
I was lucky enough to be that magazine art director, and those trips to LA were some of the best experiences of my career, much due to our deep friendship developed on those trips. I continued to art-direct covers of women 'of a certain age'--over 40 specifically--at MORE magazine years later, and found it inspiring to discover that most of them were delightful, smart, and surprisingly non-neurotic about their appearance. (with a few exceptions, of course). You won't be surprised to learn that Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis and Diane Keaton, among others, top my list of women who were generous, gracious and unself-conscious about their appearance.
Those really were the days. Love you, Maxine.