tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424698162327097126.post1816804764430842685..comments2024-01-02T10:16:13.926+00:00Comments on The Thoughtful Dresser: Book of the WeekLinda Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126115924247248057noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424698162327097126.post-18360675233390736872007-12-25T00:44:00.000+00:002007-12-25T00:44:00.000+00:00What phyllis and toby said. Plus, the "sex in the...What phyllis and toby said. Plus, the "sex in the morning" thing gets a bit dicey when there are kids in the house.<BR/><BR/>Still, can't fault HM for looking great and escewing the plastic surgery.Susan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005855250089328310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424698162327097126.post-10104998943633942412007-12-24T19:37:00.000+00:002007-12-24T19:37:00.000+00:00I really like her work. I also appreciate that she...I really like her work. <BR/><BR/>I also appreciate that she keeps herself healthy and in good shape. She's a reasonable image of what being a woman is. There are other actresses her age who are not au naturel, and they seem to radiate la plastique.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03406942482508439839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424698162327097126.post-74530072259137753982007-12-24T15:12:00.000+00:002007-12-24T15:12:00.000+00:00There are those people who have the luck of good g...There are those people who have the luck of good genes...and then there are the rest of us. I am going to be 56 and I already look older than Helen Mirren(sex every morning or not) -- my Mum's face sagged in her 50s - my sister and I both are starting to get jowly. Every women in my Dad's family started losing their hair when they got towards menopause and, sigh, both of us have gotten thin in the front also.<BR/>Helen Mirren looks great - and I'll bet her mother and aunties looked great at her age also.<BR/>Genes - you can't beat them; you can only work with them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424698162327097126.post-37996647796909527132007-12-24T13:05:00.000+00:002007-12-24T13:05:00.000+00:00I really admire her as well, however – and I know ...I really admire her as well, however – and I know I'll get SO slammed for saying this - she has no children. After I became a mother even the simplest aspects of personal maintenance and beauty become much much more difficult. First there is the challenge of seeing how much of your former self you can get back post pregnancy (it does change you forever physically in my opinion) and then there are the demands of parenting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com