Meryl Streep is seldom talked about in terms of her elegance, glamour or celebrity status.   Yet she certainly does look much younger than her age and she can be stunningly elegant and glamorous both on screen and off. 

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For many years the face of L'Oreal, Andie MacDowell looks well below her true age of 48 and what's more she is on record as saying she definitely doesn't believe in plastic surgery.

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How many times have you been told to act your age? My betting is that as soon as you were old enough to understand what age was, you were told to grow up and act your age! And then, as you matured, you started telling yourself that you either shouldn't or couldn't do something because "it's childish and you should act your age".

With that in mind, is it surprising that so many of us experience accelerated aging, growing old before our time?

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There's absolutely no doubt that celebrities have an impact on the rest of us and there's a hot debate currently on whether the influence that fame brings should also demand a certain amount of responsibility.

We're all affected by images of Hollywood stars, models and A-list celebrities smoking - off-duty or otherwise. Whether that means that individual celebrities have a moral responsibility to us all to shun smoking in their working and private lives is another matter.  What is arguably more interesting than any of that is why on earth celebrities choose to smoke at all?

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Helen Mirren has won best actress at the Venice Film Festival. The 61-year-old British performer played the current Queen - Elizabeth II - in 'The Queen' - a controversial film about the reaction of the Royals to Princess Diana's death.
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Courtenay Cox of friends fame thinks she has discovered how to grow old gracefully - stop looking in mirrors.

Aging can be challenging for most of us but for those accostomed to the celebrity spotlight - it can be very hard. The beautiful 42-year-old actress admits she is struggling a little with the aging process, but as yet - doesn't want to revert to cosmetic surgery to solve her problems. She says, "I have issues with getting older… There are huge changes in my body and my face, and I obsess over them. "I just try to not have too many mirrors around… It's hard getting older; it's hard not to be the young one anymore."
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A new fat-busting anti aging treatment called SmartLipo has recently arrived in the UK from Italy.  Claimed to be a lunch-time procedure that uses laser technology to cut fat and cellulite without resorting to the more invasive liposuction - the new treatment sounds almost too good to be true.
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