# Brooke Burke - Still Rockin a Bikini at 39 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244 "2011-08-03T00:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/21 "2011-08-03T06:43:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And those are definitely real breasts. You can tell because they’re breast-shaped. No they aren’t. They look great in a bikini, but unfortunately when on their own they seem to be looking in different directions. NSFW: [noparse][http://www.celebsdb.com/images/Brooke-Burke-m3exgnj6.jpg[/noparse]](http://www.celebsdb.com/images/Brooke-Burke-m3exgnj6.jpg%5B/noparse%5D) ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/22 "2011-08-03T06:58:57Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > These women, aside from being hot to begin with, all have access to the best personal trainers, dieticians, hair/fashion/makeup artists and advisors, etc, that money can buy. It’s not too surprising that they’ll still look damn good even at 40 and beyond. Unless you’ve had eight kids, it shouldn’t take that much to have a bikini body at 40. Eatin well and hitting the gym a few times a week should do it for most people, assuming they started out in a reasonable state. Go to any urban gym and you’ll see lots of tough-as-nails type A executive women pounding the treadmills and having hot bodies well into their sixties. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/23 "2011-08-03T10:12:29Z")
She’s gorgeous, but I don’t find it exceptional that such a young woman isn’t full of wrinkles and flab. I don’t know when 39 started to mean “old,” and I’ll never understand it. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/24 "2011-08-03T10:36:04Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > Also, Raquel’s hair looks like a wig in that photo. A good wig, but still. I’d be very surprised if a 70-year-old woman had hair that thick and lustrous. I’m pretty sure she’s upfront about the wig thing. In fact IIRC she’s attached her name to a whole line of wigs. Yup, just checked google and typing “raquel welch wigs” will bring a whole bunch of links to her eponymous collection. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/25 "2011-08-03T10:53:07Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > No they aren’t. > > They look great in a bikini, but unfortunately when on their own they seem to be looking in different directions. > > NSFW: [noparse][http://www.celebsdb.com/images/Brooke-Burke-m3exgnj6.jpg[/noparse]](http://www.celebsdb.com/images/Brooke-Burke-m3exgnj6.jpg%5B/noparse%5D) (Hotlink FAIL) I’m not saying they’re real, but you do know that real boobs aren’t always symmetrical, right? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/26 "2011-08-03T11:11:35Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > (Hotlink FAIL) > > I’m not saying they’re real, but you do know that real boobs aren’t always symmetrical, right? Yep, but hers seem to be particularly artifical in their orientation. Her Playboy spread was jarringly disappointing because of this. As for the hotlink fail, I noticed it when I stuck a hotlink in a spoiler box, so to avoid it I noparsed the link out in the open. Copying & pasting should avoid the hotlink problem, since that’s no longer a hotlink. ---
**Author:** ![slitterst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slitterst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slitterst)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/27 "2011-08-03T13:18:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > . Then she did Playboy and wow. I got a soft spot for brunettes anyway. If you get a soft spot from a Playboy spread, you’re doing something wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/28 "2011-08-03T15:33:35Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > ( > I’m not saying they’re real, but you do know that real boobs aren’t always symmetrical, right? Yup. I think Brooke’s are fake, but there do exist women whose boobs are so perfect that they look fake. Case in point, a NSFW photo of Sophia Loren, taken back in the 50’s (she’s the one in the middle). If I saw a woman with boobs like that today, I would bet my house they were fake, but I don’t think boob jobs were invented when this photo was taken. [noparse][http://www.randomnude.com/2010/04/26/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white-2/[/noparse]](http://www.randomnude.com/2010/04/26/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white-2/%5B/noparse%5D) ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/29 "2011-08-03T15:41:50Z")
Well, shit. I looked it up, and the first boob job was done in the 19th century. But I’m still pretty sure Sophia’s are natural in that photo. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/30 "2011-08-03T19:54:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Yup. I think Brooke’s are fake, but there do exist women whose boobs are so perfect that they look fake. I fail to see the logic. Perfect boobs and fake boobs look nothing alike, unless your only standard by which you judge breasts is size. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/31 "2011-08-03T20:32:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I fail to see the logic. Perfect boobs and fake boobs look nothing alike, unless your only standard by which you judge breasts is size. Check that link. I agreed with you until I looked at that. They look fake, but I agree; I bet they’re real. And very nice… ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/32 "2011-08-04T01:51:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I fail to see the logic. Perfect boobs and fake boobs look nothing alike, unless your only standard by which you judge breasts is size. No, in general, the bigger they are, the easier it is to tell fake from real. It’s more a matter of firmness, or at least the distribution of firmness. Fake boobs don’t “hang” right. Real boobs have more gentle slopes. But some women, like Sophia, have boobs so firm that they look fake. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/33 "2011-08-04T02:34:07Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > You think that’s something, look at [this](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1374087/Christie-Brinkley-gives-lesson-fabulous-57-red-hot-dress.html). Christie Brinkley at 57 years old. These pics blew me away. She’s got to have a painting in an attic somewhere. I didn’t know Under Armor made dresses. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/34 "2011-08-04T04:32:59Z")
OK, having now checked the topless picture of Burke, I still say that they look breast-shaped. If anything, the asymmetry makes it seem more likely to me that they’d be real, not less: Even granting that they can’t get fake boobs to look right, they can at least make them look symmetrical. The topless photo of Loren, it’s harder to tell, since the shawl she’s wearing is covering most of the upper curve (where the difference is most distinct). Still, from what I can see, those look probably real, too. And the two ladies flanking her definitely are. > [@](#): > > No, in general, the bigger they are, the easier it is to tell fake from real. It’s more a matter of firmness, or at least the distribution of firmness. Fake boobs don’t “hang” right. Real boobs have more gentle slopes. That sounds like you’re describing the same difference I am. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/35 "2011-08-04T04:53:50Z")
> [@brocks](#): > > But I’m still pretty sure Sophia’s are natural in that photo. Yeah, she did it the Old Fashioned Way: Italian food. Back in the day we expected women to eat and there were things that came with it. Like boobs. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/36 "2011-08-04T12:48:18Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Unless you’ve had eight kids, it shouldn’t take that much to have a bikini body at 40. Eatin well and hitting the gym a few times a week should do it for most people, assuming they started out in a reasonable state. > > Go to any urban gym and you’ll see lots of tough-as-nails type A executive women pounding the treadmills and having hot bodies well into their sixties. Said by someone who - have you reached thirty yet? Wait until you are pre-menopausal and your metabolism has slowed down and you’ve had ONE kid (my pooch and stretch marks has never gone away and won’t without surgery - I’ll never wear a bikini again - and I’ve been 5’7" and 120 lbs since I gave birth - though I’m not that now) - are holding a full time job and your evenings are filled with running kids to baseball games and tennis practice. Good bodies at 40 take quite a bit of work - probably twice what it did at 30 and four times what it did at 20. Plus good genes, clean living (or the sex, drugs and rock and roll diet - which can leave you thin - but you don’t tend to age well otherwise), good healthy recovery from any pregnancy, illness or accidents. And even though these women have started with great genes, discipline and personal trainers and often have access to plastic surgery as well - Kristie Alley and Delta Burke are two other examples that aren’t Oprah (and Oprah was never thin - Alley and Burke both once were). ---
**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:** [August 4, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/37 "2011-08-04T17:22:28Z")
While we’re at it, by the way, Oprah is not unattractive. Sure, she’s no model, but neither is she the fat slob she’s so often made out to be. Maybe she was once, but nowadays she’s not bad. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/38 "2011-08-04T21:18:35Z")
> [@brocks](#): > > Case in point, a NSFW photo of Sophia Loren, taken back in the 50’s (she’s the one in the middle). If I saw a woman with boobs like that today, I would bet my house they were fake, but I don’t think boob jobs were invented when this photo was taken. > > [noparse][http://www.randomnude.com/2010/04/26/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white-2/[/noparse]](http://www.randomnude.com/2010/04/26/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white/sophia-loren-in-black-and-white-2/%5B/noparse%5D) Good Lord, how do her boobs \*do \*that? Brooke Burke’s kind of look like bolt-ons [noparse] [here](http://www.gossiprocks.com/wallpaper/brooke-burke/brooke-burke-753-gdkv.jpg) [/noparse]and[noparse] [here](http://media.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Brooke-Burke/Brooke-Burke-46-small.JPG)[/noparse], though it’s not real obvious most of the time. Real boobs don’t just end in a crease at the top when they’re scrunched. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/39 "2011-08-04T22:43:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Brooke Burke’s kind of look like bolt-ons http ://www.gossiprocks.com/wallpaper/brooke-burke/brooke-burke-753-gdkv.jpg here… That’s really more of a painting than a photograph, with as heavily shopped as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244/40 "2011-08-04T23:12:15Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I never watched her show. But I had a _Maxim_ magazine with a photo spread of her, purchased at a gas station somewhere in Indiana after a wrestling meet, during my freshman year of high school. It also had pictures of the girl who played Meadow Soprano, and some black porn star named Dominique Simone. Why do I remember this so clearly? Take a guess. What’s the over / under on number of loads blasted into that mag? I’ll take the over, regardless. Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooke-burke-still-rockin-a-bikini-at-39/591244.md?page=3)