[Ammi]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Wow. A 52 year old woman with wrinkles! Who'd have thunk it?

The only reason her wrinkles draw any kind of comment is because she is on the tv screen. We are just not used to seeing women who actually look middle aged on telly.

I think she looks great. Cracking figure and a lived in face. Every line speaks to life of experiences and adventures. We can see the rugged beauty of a man with lines on his face, why not the beauty of age in a woman?

I hope she doesn't get a face lift. As long as women with aging faces are invisible in society, and as long as the signs of age on a woman are horrifying to us, there will be objections to the sight of them. As long as there are objections to the sight of them, there will be few women showing their age in the media, and so on, and so on.

In terms of personality, she gets on my nerves at times (though at other times she doesn't). But there's nothing wrong with the way she looks. Aging isn't a loss of beauty it is a change of beauty. There is beauty in age. We are just conditioned not to appreciate it by a society and culture that despises age and particularly in women.

..I agree that she looks good for her age, especially her figure and I don't usually comment on appearances because it's not something that's relevant ..for me it's more about the character...but I don't agree that lines/wrinkles etc are only being noticed because she's on TV...I've seen beautiful women in their 50s/60/70s that to me look 'younger' than Carol in the sense that the 'story' their lines tell is from smiles and laughter whereas I think Carol's miserable personality and moaning/negativity ages her a lot, whether she be on TV or not..I just think the beauty of an older woman comes from everything they've done etc and not laughter from alcohol either...and to me that's the only time Carol seems to laugh/smile..and then it's often at someone else's expense as well....