Sadly, the majority would probably prefer 15yo’s than 48yo’s if they were honest.
Me too. Do any of them have an obvious SOUND OFF button?
I think it would depend on the 48 year old.
I saw Jenny McCarthy on the Ellen show last week, and Ellen was talking to her about her (Jenny’s) appearance on the cover of Shape magazine. The photo was pretty much like the one of Bertinelli (whom I also thought looked just fine 40lbs ago), and Jenny was talking about how much it was photoshopped to give her more defined abs, etc. Now, I don’t doubt that Valerie Bertinelli and Jenny McCarthy both take their show-biz careers very seriously, and that’s pretty strong incentive to stay in shape, but it’s my understanding that when it comes to magazine covers, there’s no one who’s so perfect they aren’t air-brushed!
Truer now than it once was. The gatekeepers of public taste are not quite so powerful.
I think most people would consider “nearly 50 and still looks like a teenager” something to brag about.
And I think it’s great that Valerie got back into shape. She was 172 lbs at 5’4, which carries a high risk for health problems.
I understand that it’s not realistic to expect that most 48 year olds can attain their same weight when they graduated from high school (I have no desire to weigh 115 lbs again), but most people would rather make excuses “I have two kids”, “I can’t afford it” “I don’t have the time”, or “I look better with a little padding”, even if the “little padding” that they have now is around 30% body fat, which is an elelvated risk for heart disease.
And I do understand that Valerie has more money and probably more spare time than most of us, but you’ll never hear me putting someone down for improving their health and appearance by losing weight.
And yes, I’d hit it too.
Okey dokey. Thought it was odd you didn’t see that. shrug
I’d hit her. Which was OK 30 years ago as it is today. I’m only two years older than Valerie myself.
If you sit on your couch and eat crap all day maybe. Although one would be plump, that BMI is not even considered “obese.”
Dude, was One Day at a Time really that bad? Me, I’d rather just have sex with her.
Eddie Van Halen is victim of the “Nick Nolte” shot - being caught on camera in a pose or with an expression or weird hair or something that makes you look absolutely horrid, and then being stereotyped by it.
Eddie doesn’t actually look anywhere near as bad as that picture would suggest. Here’s another shot taken the same day: Eddie.
And here are some recent shots of him:
He actually looks pretty good for a 54 year old guy.
And btw, this is what Nick Nolte looks like when he’s actually washed his hair. Considering that he’s 67 years old, he also looks pretty damned good. He looks like a normal man who hasn’t had plastic surgery, botox, or spent two hours in a makeup chair.
What’s actually most surprising about Nolte and Van Halen is that they look as good as they do, considering how badly they’ve been abusing themselves over the past few decades.
Valerie Bertinelli was one of my first girl crushes. mmm mmm mmm
Valarie, even as a child actor, or a teen actor, was never rail thin. She was beautiful, undeniably so, but she always had that bit of “baby fat” about her. I don’t know if that is the correct term
I don’t know if it’s really photoshop or just a good make up shot. If you have ever seen Oprah without make up you will be amazed at what a good job her make up artist does. It’s not photoshopped, but the make up… Well whoever does Oprah’s make up should win a MAJOR award, 'cause she looks bad without it.
Only your first and last link worked for me. He looks good in the first link, and rather older than 54 in the last one. His face is quite aged. Was he a smoker? (I know he practiced other vices.) He’s awfully wrinkly. I also wonder what happened to his teeth. I guess he got them fixed, but they were gnarly at one point.
I’d have used the term “perfectly approrpiate amount of body fat and only thought inappropriate by persons caught up in a female-destructive illusion” myself. On the other hand that may be too long.
He was and still is a smoker. He lost one-third of his tongue due to cancer. Not surprisingly, he blamed his cancer on holding a metal pick in his mouth while spending 14-16 hours a day in his home studio and the electromagnetic environment of the studio. He refuses to make the connection between smoking and his cancer.
Hee, hee. On the contrary, in the other thread I observed that Wolfie definitely has one hot MILF. 
He lost a third of his fucking tongue?
Between that and those pictures, you have all helped ensure that I will never, never, never, never, never, NEVER take up smoking for any reason.
Ever.
He’s not just ‘a smoker’, but a chain smoker. I think he’s smoked 2-3 packs a day for most of his life.
The teeth could be from abuse of stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine. In fact, he’s got what the people in the recovery biz call “meth mouth”.
Is it me or do her abs look more defined in the Jenny Craig commercial than on the People cover? (see the ad here, click “Watch the new commercial” in the middle)
I wonder if it’s just the pose vs. movement, or if People actually softened up her abs because six-packs are not hot on women?
I know it sounds like I’m being nitpicky but I just saw her TV ad this weekend and the amazing shape of her abs stuck out to me. Mostly because I thought “You can’t get those just by eating mail-order food alone!”
That’s exactly what prompted my question about her workout regimen, because even on a strict 1200 calorie diet and 5 hour a week workout schedule, many women would not have a six pack. It made me go :dubious:, but hey, she looks great however she did it.
ZipperJJ said:
Six-packs are not hot on women?