Show Notes
I'm 48 and I'm done aging gracefully. I think the whole concept is just a nice way of telling women to disappear, and I'm done pretending we're aging well by being told to fade. The most honest conversation about anti-aging and what it means to stay hot AF after 40. At seven years old, on a two-lane road in Appalachia, I watched a group of women laugh at a stranger in red lipstick because she didn't know she was supposed to “age gracefully." I'm 48 now, and I've spent 40 years wondering why nobody on that dirt road said something. Why nobody is the spokesperson for women who refuse to fade. So I'm doing it now. This episode is for the woman in the back who's been clapping politely for a decade while everyone around her disappeared quietly.
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Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. In this episode: Why "aging gracefully" is just a nice way to tell women to disappear The dirt road in Appalachia where I learned the rule at seven (and why I'm still on her side) Why most meanness is just fear in nicer clothes What refusing actually costs me… the friends, the time, the Olympic-sport routine The "for her age" comment in a coffee shop that I should have corrected (and didn't) The years I dressed down on purpose… and why that wasn't grace, it was hiding Why wrinkles aren't badges. They're salt on a wound. The bigger, louder, more audacious life I'm refusing to age gracefully FOR
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