# At what age (if ever) will Marisa Tomei cease to be insanely hot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517 "2016-12-12T14:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/21 "2016-12-12T19:32:16Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Big question here. Do you mean marisa Tomei in her movie makeup or Marisa Tomei as a 50-year-old in [real life](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2535997/Make-free-Marisa-Tomei-wears-drab-cardigan-grungy-boyfriend-jeans-lunch-Melrose.html)? > > If it’s the former, probably years. If it’s the latter, the insanely hot ship has sailed. No, she’s still rather hot. Maybe not insanely except due to her age, but hotter than many women younger than her, even including her teenage self. (I often cite her as someone who got hotter as she aged.) I’d give her 20 more years BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/22 "2016-12-12T20:39:29Z")
I went with 70. It’s not impossible to go beyond that (Barbara Eden is 85, for instance, and Sigourney Weaver is 67 and still going strong), but even 70 is rare enough that it’d be quite the feat. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/23 "2016-12-12T20:45:22Z")
I fully support this thread - and yeah, these women are beautiful. The gold standard remains **Carmen Dell’Orifice** : [carmen dell orefice - Bing images](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=carmen+dell+orefice&FORM=HDRSC2) 85 years old and still a model who can work it. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/24 "2016-12-12T21:20:31Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Big question here. Do you mean marisa Tomei in her movie makeup or Marisa Tomei as a 50-year-old in [real life](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2535997/Make-free-Marisa-Tomei-wears-drab-cardigan-grungy-boyfriend-jeans-lunch-Melrose.html)? > > If it’s the former, probably years. If it’s the latter, the insanely hot ship has sailed. I’d still do her. She just looks like an older hot chick in ugly glasses and mom jeans making a sourpuss face. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/25 "2016-12-12T21:28:42Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > There’s also [Christie Brinkley (62)](http://people.com/style/christie-brinkley-may-be-62-but-these-photos-prove-shes-benjamin-buttoning-through-life/) I’m not sure what Christie Brinkley has going on there. If you look at the one where she’s wearing the John Mellancamp shirt, her face looks youngish, but her hands look much older. Like whatever charmed pendent she uses to maintain her youth is wearing off and she needs to suck the life-force out of a young up and coming model/actress or something. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/26 "2016-12-13T01:51:40Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’d still do her. She just looks like an older hot chick in ugly glasses and mom jeans making a sourpuss face. Meh. Whether you’d do her is a matter of your own perversions and fetishes. 😛 The question was whether she was “insanely hot.” That’s a heck of a high bar. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/27 "2016-12-13T02:19:56Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Meh. Whether you’d do her is a matter of your own perversions and fetishes. 😛 > > The question was whether she was “insanely hot.” That’s a heck of a high bar. Dude. Someone’s a perv if they think a woman over 50 is hot!? Please rethink that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/28 "2016-12-13T02:24:00Z")
Being a perv might be one reason for finding a woman over 50 hot. There are many other possible reasons, including, for instance, that the woman in question happens to be Marisa Tomei. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/29 "2016-12-13T02:33:22Z")
I remember watching _The Wrestler_, where she plays a stripper who goes to work a party at (IIRC) a frat. The guys all make fun of her for being too old. And I’m thinking, WTF??? She’s Marisa Goddamn Tomei!! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/30 "2016-12-13T17:54:14Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Meh. Whether you’d do her is a matter of your own perversions and fetishes. 😛 > > The question was whether she was “insanely hot.” That’s a heck of a high bar. I spend a lot of time on [www.sourpusschickswithglassesandmomjeans.com](http://www.sourpusschickswithglassesandmomjeans.com). I don’t know that I think Marisa Tomei is or was “insanely hot”. Like Margot Robbie is insanely hot. Tomei is like “girl next door hot” IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/31 "2016-12-13T18:05:18Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I spend a lot of time on [www.sourpusschickswithglassesandmomjeans.com](http://www.sourpusschickswithglassesandmomjeans.com). > > I don’t know that I think Marisa Tomei is or was “insanely hot”. Like Margot Robbie is insanely hot. **Tomei is like “girl next door hot”** IMHO. Finest kind. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/32 "2016-12-13T19:42:12Z")
She is definitely still hot. With the greatest respect to her, I would definitely oblige if offered. Plus, her biological clock has probably stopped ticking so that’s one less thing to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/33 "2016-12-14T00:11:15Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Dude. Someone’s a perv if they think a woman over 50 is hot!? > > Please rethink that. I’ve noticed that, as I’ve aged, older women look better than I would have given credit 20-30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/34 "2016-12-14T00:29:58Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I’ve noticed that, as I’ve aged, older women look better than I would have given credit 20-30 years ago. And then you reach the point where you see a young 20-something and wonder what her mom looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/35 "2016-12-14T01:28:04Z")
It’s more subtle than that, too. Like, when I was in college, I didn’t notice any particular difference between a 19-year-old woman and an early-30s woman. Nowadays, though, the early-30s women look about the same as they ever did, but the 19-year-olds look so _young_. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/36 "2016-12-14T10:28:54Z")
I think she must be a highlander. The definition of a timeless beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Smythe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jane\_Smythe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Smythe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/37 "2016-12-14T10:51:52Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Big question here. Do you mean marisa Tomei in her movie makeup or Marisa Tomei as a 50-year-old in [real life](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2535997/Make-free-Marisa-Tomei-wears-drab-cardigan-grungy-boyfriend-jeans-lunch-Melrose.html)? > > If it’s the former, probably years. If it’s the latter, the insanely hot ship has sailed. She probably never was ‘insanely hot’ in real life. Just an ordinary woman. She still has a good figure, looks fit for 52. But, people forget that Hollywood is a fantasy machine and that the women of Hollywood are dependent on heavy makeup, an expensive wardrobe, top of the line hairstylists, etc., to make them look good. The reality is very different than what we see in pictures and in the movies. It’s funny how men, in particular, are swayed and sucked in by the Hollywood manufactured beauties. But it’s also sad because they learn to not appreciate what normal women look like. This is the REAL Marisa Tomei, an attractive but ordinary woman. [Make-up free Marisa Tomei wears drab cardigan and grungy boyfriend jeans for lunch on Melrose | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2535997/Make-free-Marisa-Tomei-wears-drab-cardigan-grungy-boyfriend-jeans-lunch-Melrose.html) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/38 "2016-12-14T14:14:59Z")
> [@Jane\_Smythe](#): > > The reality is very different than what we see in pictures and in the movies. > > It’s funny how men, in particular, are swayed and sucked in by the Hollywood manufactured beauties. But it’s also sad because they learn to not appreciate what normal women look like. Ummm, everyone participating in this Thread _except_ **Exapno** has agreed that she is hot in those candid shots (incidentally, you linked the exact same photo set that he linked). ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517/39 "2016-12-14T15:02:30Z")
I don’t know about Marisa, but the only reason I watch Madame Secretary is to secretly lust after Tea Leoni, who at [age 50 is so smokin’ hawt](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/24/260B317000000578-0-image-m-36_1424798063417.jpg) that she burns up babes half her age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-if-ever-will-marisa-tomei-cease-to-be-insanely-hot/774517.md?page=1)