A few years ago I saw Nichelle Nichols and Lee Meriwether up close (at a Star Trek convention). Both these ladies are still beautiful and vibrant. They don’t look young, but they look good.
Plus, paid her dues, worked hard, and coming up smelling like lilies and roses and then some. Definetely the case of angelic voice with decent being and life shown.
I think that someone who has aged well (or at least looks great for her age) is Reba McEntire who is in her early 50’s. I think she looks great, but I have a thing for readheads…heh
I saw Marlo Thomas in something recently and thought “Gee, she looks damn good for someone in her fifties.” Then I looked up her bio and discovered she’ll be ***seventy ***this year!
Granted, she’s only 37, but anyone who looks quite like that at 37 and after a couple of kids has held up extremely well.
I saw that Fountains of Wayne video and shocked at how hot she looked in that bikini, mostly because I remember thinking the same thing 19 years ago when I was 15 and she was in SI’s swimsuit issue.
[http://offtherack.people.com/2006/10/christie_brinkl.html](Christy Brinkley) was the person I thought of immediately upon reading the OP. She’s fiftyfriggintwo in that pic. However, that’s not the sort of aging I appreciate in real life and would prefer to emulate the likes of Diane Keaton, Emmy Lou Harris and the late, great Audrey Hepburn. Graceful, elegant aging not stuck-in-time Barbie Doll looks.
She couldn’t look bad if someone beat her with an ugly stick. I think she’s the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. Including those who are half her age.
I would not say that Diane Keaton has aged well. She looks pretty bad these days, but then I can’t get over her no longer looking exactly as she did in Annie Hall. Actually, quite a few of the ladies mentioned in this thread look awfully old to me now.
Jodie looks WAY prettier now than she did in her late teens, early 20s. I harken back to her guest spot on SNL. She wasn’t even marginally attractive back then.
I tend to agree on Jodie. It’s making me curious if there might be a sub-group of people in their “golden years” who look much better these days than they did as younger people.
Roseanne may not be the best example but she’s one I thought of after a bit. Aside from the fact that quite a bit of her “now” look is manufactured, injected, sliced off, or otherwise unnatural, I think she looks a lot more healthy and attractive now than she did when she was starting out.
Unless the work has been handled with near perfection I tend to reject as “aging well” those who appear that way due to lighting, makeup, cosmetic surgery, Botox, and all the tricks Hollywood uses to disguise natural looks. There’s little more disgusting then the before and after shots available at some of the “bad plastic surgery” sites and places like that. Some of that stuff is downright scary.
Somebody voiced objection over Andie MacDowell being in my OP list. I accept that her commercials are over-lit and heavy on the facial makeup to the point of looking CGI. But in those other places where her recent look isn’t blown out of proportion, and in spite of some age lines, I still contend she’s among those who have maintained a youthful appearance.