Kate Moss: middle aged at 32?
According to recent reports, celebrity supermodel Kate Moss is worried about losing her battle with the aging process - at the ripe old age of 32.
Kate has been spending quite a bit of time recently with her best friend celebrity Sadie Frost and she doesn't like what she sees. Not only is Sadie at 41 many years her senior but - according to Kate - she looks much younger. As reported in Grazia magazine by a source close to the celebrity: ” Kate can’t stop remarking on how young and fresh-faced Sadie looks. She keeps saying that Sadie’s nearly a decade older than her and she looks younger…”
Other reports suggest that Kate Moss has installed many new mirrors in her home and spends time obsessively scrutinizing her face for signs of wrinkles and sagging.
Her worries apparently stem from her fears that a notoriously hard-drinking, chain-smoking lifestyle (which is probably putting it mildly) is starting to impact on her looks. Great bone structure or not - quite a few people have started to notice the signs of aging in her face - and Kate is one of them.
Back in early 2005, the Sunday Times (UK) ran a sharply critical article on the celebrity model - some of the writing almost designed to hurt someone whose face really is their fortune:
"Her smoking and lifestyle are affecting her looks, marked by wrinkling around the eyes that will get worse over the next five years. Beauticians have noted that her chin shows signs of sagging and the shape of her face is becoming less angular and defined."
All this may not show in the glossy and heavily retouched perfection that is a magazine photo-shoot. But the paparazzi shots that turn up in Heat and a whole host of other celebrity magazines and tabloids tell a different story.
According to sources reported recently - Kate has now decided that "beauty comes from within". Although her interpretation of what that phrase means may not by yours or mine.
As far as Kate is concerned beauty from within seems to involve a £30,000 spend at a spa in the Maldives for "a total body makeover". Very nice too if you can afford it.
But aren't there a couple of minor issues here that Kate seems to have forgotten? What about the 80+ a day cigarette habit?
No amount of seaweed wraps, regular anti-aging face packs and detox treatments will get over that little hurdle. And that's without considering the hard liquor or any other mind altering substance that doesn't really go with the pursuit of inner beauty.
As a chain smoker - by her own admission since the age of 12 - and reportedly sometimes smoking two cigarettes at a time (or even three in one famous photo) Kate must have already done some very serious damage to her skin. The effects of smoking on the skin unfortunately cannot be reversed completely but quitting now would at least stop the damage getting any worse.
Of course, Kate Moss may be in denial about smoking. She may look at her friend Sadie Frost and delude herself that smoking won't make any difference. The thing is Sadie is a relatively recent smoker. She has only smoked for the last three years (compared to Kate's twenty) and as a lifelong vegetarian may well eat a diet stuffed full of natural antioxidants. For Kate on the other hand - a veteran heavy smoker in her thirties - middle age may have already started.
So, for what it's worth, dear Kate, some sensible advice for creating the perfect beauty-from-within regime: give up the ciggies, cut out the booze and pack your diet with leafy greens and berries. And - no - we won't charge £30,000 if you accept it.
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