Making peace with my aging body: my latest story for Best Health
MAY
04
My husband, bless his heart, thinks I'd look pretty good in a bikini. I haven't worn one of those since my pre-stretch mark days, and even then I dared expose just the merest ribbon of tummy. Should I go for the gusto while I can still do a full set of ab-busting hundreds in Pilates class? Let me mull that over for a bit. I may have reached the farther shores of middle age, but in some respects that's just as well. After half a century of meeting other people's expectations, I've earned the right to focus on what pleases me---and prepares me for an active, vital future.
Not being one to rush into things, I can't promise that you'll see me baring my torso this summer. What you can do is read my reflections in May's Best Health on body image after 50.
You can't miss the issue---it's the one with the naked, unretouched model on the cover. No doubt some readers will complain that her Greek goddess body is a few fat rolls short of zaftig. Funny thing about women readers: they like to say they want to see themselves on the cover of their magazine, when in fact their tolerance for fleshy, bespectacled, smile-lined reality goes only so far (I say this a former editor-in-chief). But let's look on the bright side, shall we? This model's breast has not been lifted. I detect a reassuring droop. Good for her and Best Health.
Click here to read one of my most popular posts, "I am at two with my body (i.e., a typical woman)."
Posted by Rona May 04, 2010 @ 4:41 PM. File in General
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