suicideblonde
04-09-2003, 05:45 PM
Ok...I admit it. I am a Cher fan....but was even a bigger one before she got "fixed" or whatever you want to call it. When I was younger, I loved her dark looks and hair, crooked teeth, and hips, stomach and cheekbones I would kill for~! And then there was that voice...sheesh what a package! And when I got older, I loved the the fact that she took a chance in Hollywood and won; married but lost and admitted defeat; dated a younger man and tried to go against against the grain, but lost in the long run; and seemed content with her single life, at least in public. So last night, I decided I really needed to watch her final tour; and to be honest, I cried twice. Once when there were old clips of songs sung by her and Sonny; and the second when she took her final bow. I mean what a legend....what a life she has lead... what an influence/contributor to the music, movie and fashion world....in short, what an icon... BUT also, what a change in her physical appearance which really reveals none of that past. I am not trying to be catty, but to me when I closed my eyes, I saw and heard Cher in my mind; but when I opened them, it was not. The woman on the screen was beautiful at 56... even though her hips were wider (thank you lord!), she was still in great shape; and her breasts still seemed perky, albiet a bit bigger. BUT there were no wrinkles! None that I could see....and that is what bothered me, I think. I know it was TV and makeup and camera lighting etc, but I don't know... something was not just right.
I talked to one class today about it, and one boy said he saw it too and felt weird that an OLD woman looks like that and it made him uncomfortable. I asked how, and he said it was like false advertising.... he continued on that if he were older and was dating someone like her, and then found out she was that old, he would flip out, for she was misrepresenting her age. I asked him what 56 looks like and he told us...which mostly centered around what his grandmother looked like! Sheesh... so what is the point of this thread??? Hell if I know! BUT what I do know is that I want to look as good as I can for as long as I can, and that means youthful, I think, but not necessarily young. I will go under the knife soon, but not to the extent that it will radically change my appearance..... and I will "NOT go gently into that goodnight..." esp. now since I got in the mail yesterday a letter that began: Dear soon-to-be senior citizen.... (like HELL!)
I talked to one class today about it, and one boy said he saw it too and felt weird that an OLD woman looks like that and it made him uncomfortable. I asked how, and he said it was like false advertising.... he continued on that if he were older and was dating someone like her, and then found out she was that old, he would flip out, for she was misrepresenting her age. I asked him what 56 looks like and he told us...which mostly centered around what his grandmother looked like! Sheesh... so what is the point of this thread??? Hell if I know! BUT what I do know is that I want to look as good as I can for as long as I can, and that means youthful, I think, but not necessarily young. I will go under the knife soon, but not to the extent that it will radically change my appearance..... and I will "NOT go gently into that goodnight..." esp. now since I got in the mail yesterday a letter that began: Dear soon-to-be senior citizen.... (like HELL!)