As J-Lo's youthful face gets blasted all over the media and Botox becomes de rigeur, one Gen Xer grapples for an age-defying plan before turning 50 Jennifer Lopez is looking fab at 55, leaving a lot of Gen Xers bewildered I don’t want to vilify anyone unnecessarily, or to kick them when they’re down, but Jenny from the Block may be to blame for my current malaise. The marital-breakdown of artist formerly known as Jen Affleck has kept her age-defying face and physique in the headlines for months now. I think the omnipresence of her hotness may have inadvertently got under my skin because one recent, random morning I woke up middle-aged! I’d gone to bed feeling no better or worse than normal but, overnight, it seems, I’d been flung into the ‘past it’ category.
Admittedly, I did the flinging myself but, perhaps naively, I hadn’t seen it coming. Is it entirely unreasonable to blame an older but much hotter celebrity for drawing my attention to the fact that I now look and move more like Jagger than J-Lo herself? Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news.
