Watching Lulu perform on stage, you would never guess she was 59, and Madonna is breathtaking as she heads into her fifties. These women claim they feel sexier than ever, and age is simply a number. But some may wonder what they are trying to prove at their advanced years. Shouldn't women of a certain age save themselves a load of embarrassment and spend their evenings by the fireside instead of clubbing it?
Look around any bar these days and older ladies are mixing freely with their less mature counterparts. They work out, wear designer gear, look after their skins and are not afraid of chatting up younger guys.
Jane, 51, has no intention of growing old sitting on her own at home: '' It's nothing to do with your birth date, it's about how you feel inside, '' she says, ''I exercise my mind and my body and rarely stay still for long.''
''I take up new interests all the time,'' she says, ''like dance classes, or hill walking. I love travelling and theatre, as well as socialising in town.''
Fifty plus celebrities like Sharon Osbourne and Kim Cattrall would no doubt agree that with the right attitude you can forget your age and just get on with life. One of the advantages of being older is you get to know and accept yourself, and stop worrying about what other people think. A quality men find really appealing in women, whatever their age.
Sharon Stone and Tina Turner don't bide by the unspoken rule that states women must stop being sexy and adventurous after a certain point. They don't see the reasoning behind a society that seems to demand they crawl into a corner and become invisible!
They feel more powerful and self assured than at any other time in their lives, because they've experienced so much of life and come out the other side with tons more confidence.
Patricia is 60 this year and dismisses the embarrassment factor as a problem other people have: ''I'll be wearing a bikini on holiday this year, despite my middle age spread. This is me and I just think life is too short to worry about what the rest of the world chooses to think.''
