Formerly Hot!

I have recently read a review of a bestselling book by an American journalist called 'My Formerly Hot Life'

Apparently there are several clues to indicate that you are no longer 'hot', including "You've noticed the undersides of your upper arms have started to flap like the plastic bunting hanging outside used car dealerships"!

Well I have to say that I'm not overly fond of my bingo wings but I firmly refute the fact that I am no longer hot!

I will admit that I am middle aged (reluctantly and only when my girls asked me how many people I knew who were over 100!) but I am definitely not three steps away from a cardy and a pipe. I am in fact having the best time of my life.

I have the confidence and experience that being a mature woman gives you. I love to get dressed up and when I'm out, I don't waste my time wondering if anyone is looking at me, I focus on having interesting conversations with interesting people. I might not have the body of a 20 year old (if I ever did!) but I know that I am fun to be with - I can laugh at myself. I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said that youth is wasted on the young, and he was so right.

Bur most of all I have learned that sex appeal is all in the mind. It doesn't matter if it takes me a bag full of cosmetics to achieve that 'no make-up glow', I know that I have that confidence and inner glow which is so often lacking in younger women.

Would I like to be 20 again? Of course. I bemoan the fact that I have laughter lines, eye bags and can no longer wear some of the latest crazy fashions, but life is too short to spend it wishing, and you know what? Maybe I no longer have the fashion freedom that I once had (hot pants are probably not a good look at 50!) but I do have an amazing collection of shoes!