More To Life Than Eternal Youth Magazine Dedicated To Idea That Life After 45 Worth Living
Magazine publishers are targeting more and more specific audiences. The latest publication to follow this trend is MORE, a magazine put out by Ladies’ Home Journal that is aimed at “women aged 45 and older.”
“MORE is for women who feel they are not winding down but revving up,” editor-in-chief Myrna Blyth said in a press release. “All of the women pictured on our editorial pages are over 45 and don’t hesitate to say so. The articles in our pages candidly and directly address our concerns, our range of interests and our passion and pleasures as well.”
So, what are some of those interests, passions and pleasures that are included in the inaugural issue?
Cover model Lauren Hutton, 53, declares that “sex is even better for older women.” Lauren Bacall, 72, claims that “I’ve always been sloughed off in movies” and been “considered Bogie’s wife more than an actress with a career.”
And page 56 is a true keeper: “Biggest Beauty Mistakes of Senior Women.”
The natural: Despite Hollywood’s penchant for silicon, shapely supermodel Tyra Banks claims that she’s all real.
So why has there been so much speculation that Banks has had breast implants? “Because I have the biggest boobs in the business,” Banks told Details magazine.
“They stay up when I wear a push-up bra,” she said, “but if those people could see me when I come home and take off my bra…”
Here’s a question: What kind of world have we become when someone such as Banks feels the need to go public with specifics about her breasts?
The naturally augmented: Think Tyra Banks’ concerns are unusual? They seem strangely similar to those of actress Heather Locklear. Well into her pregnancy, the “Melrose Place” star believes the situation might do wonders for her career.
“I guess they’ll have to photograph me from the boobs up,” she said. “And since I expect to get very big boob-wise, this should look great!”
Humor and the ‘90s woman: Traditionally, saying that a woman “has a sense of humor” has been a polite way of defraying attention from her other qualities.
Or liabilities.
That, at least, is how Wendy Wasserstein sees it.
“I’ve always been funny,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“The Heidi Chronicles”) told The New Yorker. Yet, she added, “Funny is a very complicated issue.”
How so? “It’s always, ‘You’ll love her, she’s really funny,”’ Wasserstein said, “not ‘I’m in love with her, she’s really funny.”’
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